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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
axilliary and bracteated racemes; pedicels 2-3 c.m. long; calyx 3 m.m. long; petals strap-shaped, 4-5 c.m. long, yellow; staminal tube 4-5 c.m. lon g> wlth a 
subulate lobe behind each anther ; style longer than the tube ; ovary about 10-celled ; fruit r 5 c.m. long, oblong, shortly pointed, ribbed. Present but not common 
in M’Chopes and Inhambane (extra-trop.) and at Beira, Quelimane, Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra. Sim 373. 
Plate XVIII. D. 
50. MELIA. An exotic genus of which the one species here included is now naturalised in almost all tropical and sub-tropical localities. Calyx 6-partite; petals 6 ; stamens 
10-12, monadelphous ; ovary 3-6 celled, ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit drupaceous, with a 1-5 celled bony putamen. Leaves alternate, 2-3 pinnate. 
Flowers in large panicles. 
M. Azedarach, Linn. Vent. name — i, Syringa. A tree 10-20 metres high, up to 60 c.m. diameter of stem, with useful half-hard white clean timber of rapid growth. 
Leaves deciduous or nearly so, 2-pinnate, with incised leaflets. Panicles abundant, flowers scented, lilac; berries very abundant, whole tree said to be poisonous. 
Naturalised throughout the Province, but less prosperous at Quelimane and northward than in the south. 
51. EKEBERGIA. Inflorescence paniculate; panicles numerous, placed singly in the axils of the new season’s leaves, and thus crowded at the ends of the branches. 
Flowers polygamous or apparently hermaphrodite, jointed to the pedicels. Calyx irregularly 5-fid ; petals 5, imbricate in bud, slightly adnate at the base to the 
staminal tube; stamens 10, their filaments united into a tube, on the margin of which stand the anthers; ovary sessile, surrounded by a ring, 2-5 celled; cells 
2-ovuled ; style short ; stigma discoid or somewhat 2-lobed. Berry fleshy indehiscent , 2-5 seeded. Seeds pendulous, without arillus, exalbuminous, with superior 
radicle. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. 
E. Meyeri, Pr. Vent, names — 1, Cape Ash, and Dog Plum ; 4, Nyanuja ; 13, Umgwenya-uizinja. An evergreen tree, often forming a large and useful timber tree in 
the mountain forests of Natal, but seen only as a low flat tree 3-5 metres high in this Province. Leaves 20 30 c.m. long, with 4-5 pairs of leaflets and terminal one ; 
leaflets 7-10 c.m. long. 2’5-4 c.m. wide, acute, glabrous, entire, unequal at the base, the upper side the larger; petiole 5-15 m.m. long; panicle 15-20 c.m. long, 
many flowered. Corolla both sides, and staminal tube pubescent ; tube undivided, with 10 anthers on its margin. In fertile flowers the ovary is short and stout 
with 2 sessile stigmas ; in barren flowers the ovary is abortive, style slender and stigma capitate. Ovary 5-celled, fruit 2-5 seeded, fleshy indehiscent 1-2 c.m. 
diameter, seeds pendulous, 1 c.m. long. This species is too near E. capensis, Sparm., of Cape Colony, and Oliver considers the Abyssinian E. Riippeliana, Rich., as 
doubtfully distinct. 
PLATE XX. 1, Leaf and panicle ; 2, Flower, x 7 ; 3, Flower, petals removed, x 5 ; 4, Stamen, x 10 ; 5, Disc and calyx and abortive pistil, x 5 ; 6, Calyx, with fertile pistil, x 7 ; 7, Fruit ; 8, Section 
of ovary; 9, Seed ; 10, Tree, general appearance. 
52. TRICHILIA. Inflorescence shortly paniculate in the upper axils; flowers sometimes imperfect dioecious. Calyx 5-toothed; petals 5, free, imbricate in aestivation; 
stamens 8-10; filaments united half way; anthers introrse ; ovary usually 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled, stigma capitate; capsule 3-celled, woody, dehiscent, 6-seeded. 
Leaves alternate, imparipinnate in our species. Seed exalbuminous ; radicle upward. 
T. emetica, Vahl. Vent, names — 1, Cape Mahogany ; 2, Mafurreira ; 4 to 8, the Portuguese name Mafurrcira , or various alterations of the Kaffir name (13) Umkuhlu , 
such as Nkusu, Tunhlu, Umcucho, Kuhlu, &c. ; 10, Muteri and Moreka ; 11, Mutumbe ; 14, Esschenhout. The fruit is known to most natives by the Portuguese 
name Mafura. A large, evergreen, umbrageous tree; leaves imparipinnate of 3-5 pairs of leaflets and a terminal one, 15-30 c.m. long, 15-22 c.m. wide; the leaflets 
opposite, lanceolate-oblong or oblong, acute or obtuse, entire, glabrous, shining, dark green above, green or pubescent below, 8-12 c.m. long, 4-5 c.m. wide, on short 
swollen petiolules. Flowers numerous on short clustered axillary panicles, forming together a large much-branched or clustered terminal leafy panicle. Flowers 
scented, usually (or always) imperfectly dioecious, some trees having only potent stamens and others only potent pistils in flowers which appear hermaphrodite, the 
result being a heavy crop of fruit annually on the fertile trees and never any on the others. Flower 2 c.m. across, 1*5 c.m. deep, staminal tube cylindrical, hairy 
upward, shortly io-toothed, each tooth bearing an extrorse anther set in hairs. Pistil approximately the same length as the staminal tube, but varying in length, 
possibly in connection with potency. Fruit leathery, globose or nearly so, 2-2 5 c.m. diameter, 3-valved, 6-seeded or fewer. Seeds black, i'5 c.m. long with scarlet 
arillus, from which, as also from the seed, oil is obtained in quantity, making this one of the most useful trees in the Province. The Portuguese name of the fruit, 
Mafura, means oil, and one of the synonyms of this tree is Mafureira oleifera (Bert. Misc. Bot. IX. 6, t. 2). Distributed abundantly throughout the Province south 
of Inhambane, both on the sandy ground and on the alluvial river flats, present also in the tropical parts of the Province, though less abundant and hardly used 
