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P lanceolata Eckl Veru. •uw-i, Christinas Tree ; 10, Mtelagua and Nemavegwe ; 13, Umdhlesa ; -15, Leza-n-kozasane A small glabrous tree 7 metres high and 
up to o’c m diameter; leaves lanceolate or widely lanceolate, 5-10 c.m. long, 2-3 cm. wide, glossy above and often w.th bearded pockets underneath in the ax, 
of the veins Panicle diffuse, corymbose, terminal or on side branches, many-flowered. Calyx-lobes very short, bluntly rounded. Corolla-tube a c.m. long Tru, 
5 m.m. diameter. Bark grey ; timber white, hard, close-grained. For illustration see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony, p. 237, 1 late LXXXIV. fig. 1. req e 
throughout the Province, less abundant in the northern flats. , 
Several other small shrubby Cape species occur along the Lebombo Range, and in the north two small species are described, viz. :-P. macrosepala, Hiern, 
with oval glabrous leaves, and P. gracilis, Klotzsch, with elliptical more or less pubescent leaves. . , . 
A curious shrub 2-7 metres high, with thick rigid branches, long croton-like lanceolate leaves 10-40 c.m. long, 2-3 c.m. wide, terminal paniculate inflorescence 
and round fruits 6 m.m. diameter, occurs in the Lebombo range in Maputa and Marracuene, and also in the more inland portions of Magenja da Costa and 
Nhamacurra, and appears to belong to Pavetta, but my material is insufficient for determination. It is known locally as (15) Hlangushan. 
16 1 COFFEA. Shrubs or small trees with opposite leaves and branches, intrapetiolar stipules, axillary or terminal solitary or clustered white fragrant hermaphrodite flowers, 
and oblong 1-2 seeded berries. Calyx-tube short, toothed, not accrescent; corolla salver-shaped, 5-7 merous, lobes twisted in aestivation; stamens 5-7, par y or 
wholly exserted. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, 2-fid ; ovules solitary, peltate ; berry oblong, pyrenes usually 2, convex on the back, furrowed on the face. Albumen 
homy. Bracteoles connate into a cup. 
C. stenophylla, G. Don. Venn. name— ij Inhambane Coffee. A glabrous shrub 2-5 metres high, with opposite leaves and branches. Leaves lanceolate elliptic, or 
obovate, bluntly pointed or varying to candate-acuminate, sub-coriaceous, 5-10 c.m. long, 1-3 c.m. wide. Flowers axillary, 1-3 toget er, s or y pe uncu a , 
tube 6 m.m. long, lobes 6-8, oblong ; the flower 2-2-5 c.m. across ; anthers exserted. Berry oblong, 15 c.m. long, black. Frequent in moist parts o the fr °™ 
M'Chopes northward, often cultivated, cultivation being started cither by moving young plants from the forest, or by burning down the forest when he Coffer 1 
first tree to start again. C. stenophylla has been regarded as a West African species; the East African plant differs slightly in having more dist nctly lanceohe 
leaves, but 1 think is not specifically distinct. Inhambane Coffee is not however entirely the product oi this bush, as other exotic species are cult ™ted fo J* 
seeds, and ihe distinctive flavour of Inhambane Coffee is probably due as much to treatment as to species. Though less subject to coffee disease than 
kinds, the local species is not proof against it, and with the forests full of nearly related Rubiaceous trees all more or less subject to that or closely ' re ' a ‘ ed f “J" 
diseases, coffee culture can hardly be regarded as a promising branch of agriculture unless future developments show some easy and cheap method of keeping 
pest in band. |s. d to be ind J us in the north are :-C. Zanguebaria;, Lour., having oval or obovate thin leaves, axillary flowers and the berries longitudin- 
ally nerved ; and C. racemosa, Lour., having ovate-lanceolate leaves and sub-terminal erect racemes. The cultivated coffee is mostly C. arabica, Sltn, havt g 
oval or elliptical leaves and axillary clusters of flowers. 
162. TRIAINOLEPIS. Shrubs with pubescent or glabrescent opposite leaves, small tricuspidate stipules, and hermaphrodite small, 5-7 merous flowers having 5 7 celled 
ovary and solitary erect ovules ; the flowers arranged in terminal corymbose cymes. 
T africana. Hook. f. Pubescent. Leaves ovate or elliptical, pointed, 6-10 c.m. long, 2-4 c.m. wide; flowers 1 c.m. long, 1-1 5 c.m. across. Rovuma Bay. 
A small tree in the forests of Magenja da Costa, known as to, ikalago, of which I have not seen the flowers, appears to belong to 
previously included herein, but my material is insufficient for full determination. It has opposite obovate-acuminate leaves J-.t c.m. Iona S »- “”>7 
pubescent above and on the veins below ; young wood pubescent ; stipules acuminate from a wide base ; panicle to c.m. wi e an ong , r » ' u ' 
diameter, having a large areole with S short teeth on its margin ; fruit 2-celled with . peltate flat seed in each cell, each seed having several (4 6) large and beau - 
fully fringed peltate scales upon its su.face. These scales are oblong 2-3 m.m. long, and unlike anything of the kind I have seen elsewhere. Sun 6or and 6 53. 
For Lepipogon obovatum, G. Berto), an Inhambane shrub unknown to me, see “ Flora of Tropical Africa,’ III. 247. 
FAMILY XXXIX.— COMPOSITE. 
Flowers in several-flowered or usually many-flowered heads, on a common receptacle, and surrounded by a common involucre ; which heads are ,P°P^ r ^ 
separate flowers. Flowers 5 merous, regular or bilabiate, or the inner florets regular and the outer with strap-shaped corolla in the same head. Calyx adherent corolla, 
