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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
34. DOMBEYA. Flowers hermaphrodite, usually subtended on 1 side by a 2-3 leaved deciduous involucre. Inflorescence cymose. Calyx 5-parted; petals 5, convolute in 
bud, persistent; stamens 10-15, connate at the base, alternating in 2’s or 3’s with 5 longer staminodia; filaments free above and the anthers extrorse. Ovary 3-5 
celled; style single with as many tips; ovules several in each cell, usually 4 in 2 superimposed pairs. Capsule leathery, 3-5 celled, dehiscent; cells 1-2 seeded. 
Seeds albuminous. Leaves alternate, stipulate, usually cordate-lobed. 
D. multiflora, Planch. Vem. name — 15, Beobandle. A rigid and more or less deciduous shrub, frequent on rocky ridges of the Lebombo range. Leaves 3-5 c.m. 
long and wide, widely cordate, irregularly toothed, acute, very firm, 3-5 veined, reticulate, roughly stellate, pubescent on both sides, and with pubescent petiole 1-2 
c.m. long. Inflorescence shortly racemose from leafless old wood; racemes 1-3 c.m. long, numerous; flowers small, 1-5 c.m, across, white; calyx reflexed. Sim 6318. 
Plate VIII. C. 
D. spectabilis, Bojer. Vem. name— 10, Mlolo, which name is also applied to several other fibre-bearing trees. Evergreen tree 6-10 metres high, 30 c.m. diameter of 
stem. Leaves 10 c.m. long and wide, or larger, cordate, hard, finely toothed, rather rough, with fine stellate pubescence above, and more dense below, 5-7 veined 
at the base, and with numerous cross-veins in relief. Petiole 5 c.m. long, minutely pubescent. Inflorescence axillary, abundant, cymose pubescent; cymes many 
flowered, 7-15 c.m. long, flowers 2 c.m. wide, sepals lanceolate. Frequent between Arenga and Maquebella, Magenja da Costa, where the fibre of the bark is used 
for rough cordage. Sim 5966. 
Plate VIII. A. 
D. Kirkii, Mast. A shrub or small tree unknown to me but described as having the younger parts covered with dense stelliform tomentum. Leaves petiolate 
cordate-ovate, acuminate often more or less 3-lobed, the lobes acute or acuminate, coarsely and irregularly crenate-serrate. Peduncles axillary and terminal, longer 
than the leaf stalks; pedicels slender 2 '5-5 c.m. long with spreading villi. Flowers small, sepals oblong lanceolate; petals obliquely cuneate, retuse, double the 
length of the calyx. Filaments free nearly to the base; ovary downy; stigmas 2-5, included. Lat. 16 0 S., Dr. Mellev, Lupata, Sir John Kirk. 
D. Burgessiae, Gerr. / ’em. name 10, Nyakowe. A hairy shrub 3-4 metres high, with numerous more or less virgate branches. Inflorescence axillary, very profuse 
towards the point of the branch, forming collectively a large leafy panicle, the leaves of which are cordate, 5-10 c.m. long and wide, while the lower leaves are 10-20 
c.m. long and wide and 3-5 lobed, all palmately 3-5-7 veined, and softly tomentose on both surfaces. Umbels bracted, 5-10 flowered, on peduncles 5-15 c.m. long; 
pedicels 2 5-5 c.m. long, pubescent; flowers 3 c.m. across, pinkish white; sepals pubescent, lanceolate; fruit very hairy, tipped by the 5-rayed pistil. Occurs in 
Natal, and occasionally throughout the Province; it is used by the natives for the production of fire by friction; its fibre is occasionally used, and it is well worth 
cultivation for its flowers. Sim 5726. 
Plate VIII. B. 
Another species of Dombeya, perhaps D. Natalensis, Sond. occurs at Delagoa Bay and is known as Sicara, but only incomplete material was obtainable. 
FAMILY XI.-TILIACEiE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals 4-5 ; petals 4-5 ; stamens many, filaments free, hypogynous or rising from 
ovuled; style single; stigmas as many as the ovary cells. Seeds albuminous. Leaves simple alternate, stipulate. 
Jute being commercial products of the Family. 
a torus; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary 2-4 celled, 2-many- 
The bark usually contains a tough fibre, Russian Mats and 
35 GREWIA Stamens and pistil on a columnar torus 2-5 m.m. long, from the base of which the sepals and petals arise. Sepals 5, deciduous, petaloid on the inner surface. 
Petals 5 each with a gland at us inner base. Stamens numerous, free, ovary 2-4 celled with a simple style; drupe 1-4 lobed, each lobe containing one 1-2 seeded 
stone. Lymes axillary 1-4 flowered. A genus of straggling or subscandent shrubs of no practical utility of which 1 7 species are recorded from Mozambique Province 
flava ^nd^NatTpi' ™ 1 common to both. See “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony," Plates XV. and XVIII., fot G. lasiocarpa; G. occ.dentalis and G. 
eat the fruit^ thlif h h’ rtf ’ r ” \ Wh ' Ch bel °" g t0 0Ur district ' The natives use the >™°ches in <■* construction of fish-kraals, and occasionally 
in the amun a ' S 4 S? J , The s P ecies are not wel1 distinguished either by natives or botanists, but the following vem. names are in 
similar stabs ’ $ ^ 7 ’ Tcha P ande ; IO > Ira P ara i Maitomatorulo. The name (4) Shamunyamanyan is also used for this and other 
