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Forest Flora of Portugu ese East Africa. 
FAMILY VI.— POLYGALEiE. 
Flowers irregular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5. sometimes very unequal ^ 3 , i^celled^ wTtfi pendulous ovule in each cell. Fruit a capsule 
filaments connected into a tube split a few trees j the flowers usually have a general resemblance to those of Papilionacete. 
or samara. Leaves exst.pulate, simple. A cons.derable Family adh erent tQ the base of the petals. 
21 SECURIDACA. Sepals 5, unequal, a larger, petaloid and wing-like; petals 3, the carma galeate. Stamens 8 , the split 
Ovary i-celled with 1 ovule. Fruit a samara. Leaves alternate, entire. hi h and 30 _ 50 c .m. diameter or sometimes 
S. longipedunculata, Fres. Vcm. urn's- 4, Tsatsi or Tchatch, . ; J wide, usually acute and with slender petiole r c.m. long ; those on 
a sub-scandent or sub-erect shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong to 5 • 8 below the middle to both ends. Flowers in short terminal racemes, 
young trees and coppice shoots ,-,5 long, ^e^ In the tropica, forest at Magenja da Costa, Nhamacurra and 
purple, violet or allied colours ; fruit a winged i-seeded samara 5 . • g, _ ' fr g t in extra-tropical districts but present in Lourenzo Marques, 
sa-s? - -* - - — «- ° f “■ 
and the natives use a decoction of the fruit as an eye lotion. . , 
Plate V. A. i, Flowering branch ; 2, Part of coppice shoot. 
S. spines, (New species.)- Vern. „ Tsatsi. Rigid shrub ,3 nrerres high. 
“frererred ro in - Flora - Tropica, 
Africa, p. 134. Plate V. B. In bud. 
FAMILY VII. — HYPERICINE^E. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5 1 petals 5 1 stamens numerous, more or ,ess connate at the base into severs, groups; ovary r-3-5 ceded. Mostly herbs 
or shrubs with exstipulate usually opposite leaves in which translucent glands are immersed in some cases. Flowers usually ye o . 
22 HYPERICUM. Stamens free or nearly so. Ovules numerous ; fruit a capsule. Herbs or shrubs. 
"■ — x tzzrzzstzxzzz rs ri 
and West Africa . . , . 
23 . PSOROSPERMUM. Stamens in 5 bundles with scales between each. Ovary 5-celled, styles distinct, ovules solitary or occasionally m parrs; frurt a berry. 
African genus of shrubs. . ,, 
P. febrifugum, Spach. A shrub or small tree, with opposite or temate bluntly elliptical, almost sub-sessile leaves 2-5-10 c.m. long, >-5 c.m. w.de; flowers m sma 
terminal cymes or corymbose. Stamens 5-10 in each bundle. Manganya Hills, Zambesia. 
2 4 . HARONGIA. Stamens in 5 bundles, opposite to the petals, with scales between each. Ovary 5-celled with 2-4 ovules in each. Drupe small, globose, each carpel with 
a bony endocarp, containing 2-4 seeds. Monotypic. 
H madagascariensis, Chois. A shrub or small tree 10-.5 metres in height, more or less tomentose on young parts. Leaves opposite entire, ovate-oblong 7^5 can. 
lon^ 4-8 c.m. wide, connected by a prominent interpetiolar ridge, and glabrescent above and more or less pale and pubescent below. Flowers small many- 
flowered corymbose cymes. Berries small. Mozambique, Zambesia, West Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius. 
’Securidaca apinoaa. (Nov. sp.) Frutex rigid™, 2-3 mot. alma ; ramulis apinoaia folia racemosque gerenrita ; folia, ovalibus, r-2 c m. longis, I c.m. latia, raccmis 2 c.m. longis, multiilorls, floribua 
purpureis, pulcherrimis, pedicellis I c.m. longis ; samarisiis S. longipedunculata? similibus. Lourenzo Marques et Machava. Sim 6389. Tab. V . B. 
