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168. CHRYSOPHYLLUM. Trees with exstipulate entire leaves, and clustered small flowers in the axils or on older wood. Calyx campanulate, 5-fld, the segments 
imbricating irregularly ; corolla tubular, 5-fid ; stamens 5, sessile, 1 on the face of each corolla-segment. Staminodes none. Ovary 5-celled with a short style ; 1 
ovule in each cell. Berry fleshy, usually 1 -seeded. Seed albuminous. A large genus of tropical trees. 
C. natalense, Sond. Vern. names — 4-8, Mnwebe; 10, n, Mnewe ; 13, Tungwane. A large and valuable evergreen timber tree, 10-20 metres high, and with stem up to 
45 c.m. diameter, usually growing in the open or gregariously, and with much-branched bushy crown. Leaves 7-15 c.m. long, 2-4 c.m. wide, coriaceous, obovate or 
widely lanceolate, rounded or bluntly pointed, entire, shortly petiolate, at first rusty-pubescent or tomentose, afterwards glabrous and shining above, silvery on the 
under surface. Flowers numerous, almost sessile, in axillary clusters on old wood. Calyx 5 (-6) fid more than half-way, the segments erect, imbricate, ovate, 
pubescent. Corolla tubular, constricted about the middle, rather longer than the calyx, glabrous, limb of 5 sub-erect segments which are often irregularly 3-5 toothed 
at the apex. Ovary 5 (-6) celled, hairy, style short. Fruit 1-2 c.m. long, oblong, minutely pubescent, almost sessile, red or white, edible, usually i-seeded. 
Abundant throughout the Province and extends to Natal and Pondoland. See “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 252, Plate XCIV. ; “Natal Plants,” Plate 378. 
Plate LXXIV. A. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, Flower, x 3 ; 3, Flower, petals removed, x 5 ; 4, Corolla opened, x 5 ; 5, Ovary and pistil, x 5 ; 6, Tree, general habit. 
C. magalismontanum, Sond. Vern. names — 4, M-bovan-hlati ; 10, Mpudo. A large forest tree, very similar in general aspect to C. natalense, but with rather larger, 
more distinctly obovate leaves, rounded or apiculate at the apex, not silvery underneath when mature. Flowers crowded, almost sessile, small, hard, pubescent. 
Fruit edible. Frequent from Quelimane northward, and occasionally south to Maputa. 
Other 2 species occur in Lourenzo Marques and Maputa which are almost certainly Chrysophyllum, but of which neither flowers nor fruit were seen. One 
of these (4, Ngwamba, Sim 6280) is a small spreading tree on the flats below the Maputa Lebombos, much branched with short rigid twigs of 10 c.m. length, leafy 
at the point only. Leaves obovate, 2-4 c.m. long, emarginate, nearly sessile, finely veined, glabrous, not silvery, and often crowded on abortive warty branches. 
The other (4, Ntana, Sim 5112), a small glabrous tree found at Matolla, has obovate petiolate leaves 4 c.m. long, rounded at the apex, not silvery, and 
confined to the upper part of the young branches. 
169. SIDEROXYLON. Glabrous evergreen trees with simple entire exstipulate leaves and clustered axillary inflorescence. Calyx saucer-shaped, 5-partite, the segments 
irregularly imbricate. Corolla with a very short tube and funnel-shaped or rotate 5-partite limb. Fertile stamens 5, inserted in the throat of the tube, 1 opposite to 
each corolla-segment, filament slender, anther ovoid, extrorse ; staminodia 5, without anthers, alternate with the stamens, and inserted lower in the corolla-tube. 
Ovary superior, globose, 5-celled, with a short linear style. Berry fleshy, by abortion 1 -seeded ; seed albuminous. A tropical and sub-tropical genus, poorly 
represented here. 
S. inerme, Linn. Vern. names— 1, White Milkwood ; 4, Mabope ; 13, Umqwashu; 14, Witte Melkhout ; 15, Impusha. An evergreen tree, sometimes erect, spreading 
and umbrageous, but more frequently branched and bushy from near the base. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy above, paler below, entire, 
elliptical, oblong or obovate, obtuse, shortly petiolate, 7-10 c.m. long, 3-5 c.m. wide, regularly distributed along the branches. Flowers disagreeably scented, axillary, 
in clusters of 1-10, often raised on short warts ; pedicels 6-12 m.m. long ; flowers 6 m.m. across. Calyx finely pubescent and ciliate ; corolla with a very short tube 
and rotate limb ; stamens longer than the corolla-segments ; anthers dorsifixed, extrorse ; staminodia lanceolate, petaloid, as long as the filaments. Ovary hairy, 5 
or occasionally 4-3 celled, style short, obtuse. Fruit 1-1*5 c.m. diameter, globose, black, shining, and with white viscid juice ; seed somewhat 5-lobed. A first-rate 
timber where large enough. Abundant along the Swaziland railway below the Lebombos, and in the Lebombo kloofs, usually as a spreading bush. Occurs also 
sparingly north to Inhambane. For illustration see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 252, Plate XCV. 
170. MIMUSOPS. Trees or shrubs, with milky latex in the bark, which from some species maybe collected or expressed for caoutchouc. Leaves simple, evergreen, 
exstipulate, alternate, entire, coriaceous, shortly petioled, often absent or scarce on the lower part of the branch ; flowers axillary, on 1 -flowered peduncles or in small 
umbels. Calyx-segments 6 or 8 in 2 rows, the outer the larger and firmer; corolla cut nearly to the base into linear white segments, 2-3 times as many as the calyx- 
segments, and in 2-3 rows ; at first forming an erect cone, afterwards twisting singly. Stamens much shorter than the corolla, 6-8 stamens perfect with short slender 
filaments and cordate pointed anthers, alternating in 1 row with an equal number of wider subulate staminodes without anthers ; ovary superior, globose or subulate, 
hairy, 6-8 celled, with a simple style. Berry globose, oblong or ovate, pointed by the style, more or less edible, usually 1 -seeded. Seeds albuminous, horny, 
flattened, with an obliquely basal hilum, usually only 1 or 2 in a berry, sometimes more- 
