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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
M Henriauesiana. Vtrn. names — Menjela ; 6, Banjela and Rungulo. A large or very large tree, sometimes 20 metres high, 1 metre stem diameter, with spreading 
branches and abundant heavy foliage. Leaves crowded upward, variable in form from widely lanceolate, elliptical or obovate to nearly round, usually bluntly 
pointed tapering to the 2-3 cm. petiole, 5-7 veined on each side, glabrous and green. Flowers axillary, several together, the peduncles 2 c.m. long and like the 
brown calyx shortly pubescent. Floral parts 6-merous (seen in bud only) ; fruit oblong, 2 c.m. long, edible. Young growth set with scattered loose white hairs. A 
noble tree, with a thick rough bark containing a large quantity of Caoutchouc. Dr. Feriera on whose farm near Manjacaze, Lower Gaza, a large quantity of it grows, 
has had this latex expressed and sent to Europe, where it was considered suitable for many purposes and valued at 2/6 per lb. As the latex does not flow with 
sufficient force to allow of its being collected from the surface, expression is the only means of obtaining it, and I doubt whether under present conditions and for 
the value stated, this can be done with profit. The latex is there as it is in the other species of Mimusops, but till cheaper extraction can be devised or higher 
value obtained I fear it must remain there. The tree is frequent in Gaza, M’Chopes and Inhambane, and what appearad to be the same species was also seen in 
Magenja da Costa. Plate LXXVII. A. i, Flowering branch : 2, Fruit. 
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Mochisia, Baker. Unknown to me; described as “a bush or low tree with the habit of Prunus spinosa, with the leaves with the umbels in their axils mostly in 
dense lateral or terminal fascicles. Branchlets not at all tomentose.” Leaf oblanceolate-oblong 2-5-5 c.m. long, 15-18 m.m wide, obtuse, cuneate at the base ; 
flowers 6-merous, on slender glabrous pedicels 6-12 m.m. long. “ Fruit yellow, glabrous, the size of a bullace. Seeds 3-4 maturing.” Zambesi-land at Senna and 
Tete. Sir John Kirk. 
Kirkii, Baker. Vent. name — 10, Gamanewe. A large tree, producing abundant latex, and not uncommon in the forests of Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra, and 
recorded from the junction of the Shire and Zambesi, and from the Rovuma. Leaves roundly obovate-oblong, rounded and shortly apiculate at the apex, 4-5 c.m. 
long 2-4 c.m. wide, glabrous, tapering shortly at the base, with fine veination, and with slender petiole 2-3 c.m. long. Flowers 8-merous, outer 4 sepals tomentose. 
Fruit globose, 2 c.m. long, suddenly pointed by the style, yellow, edible. 
obovata, Sond. Vent, names— 1, Red Milkwood; 4-6, Nolle or Tole ; 13, Umtunzi or Amasitole ; 14, Roode Melkhout ; 15, in-tembe. A deep-green upright 
evergreen timber tree, up to 15 metres height and 60 c.m. stem diameter. leaves fairly evenly distributed along the branches, but occasionally branches or twigs 
are leafless below. Leaves narrowly obovate, rounded or bluntly pointed at the apex, tapering below to the 6-12 m.m. petiole, soon glabrous, pale below, 3-7 c.m. 
long, 12-25 m.m. wide. Flowers solitary or few in an axil, on brown-pubescent peduncles 12-18 m.m. long, 8-merous, 2 c.m. across ; fruits 2-3 c.m. long, 15 c.m. 
diameter, ovate or ovate-acuminate, usually tapering to the style. Occurs sparingly from Maputa to M’Chopes ; for illustration see “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony, 
Plate XCVI. 
M. caffra E. Mey. Vent, names— 1 , Red Milkwood ; 4, 5 , 6 , Tole or Chole ; 13, Um-Nweba and Um-tunzi. A somewhat hoary or glaucous evergreen tree or shrub 
forming a large proportion of the sea-dune vegetation, but also extending inland on sandy soils. On the dunes it grows down to the watermark, fully exposed to 
sea-winds, and is consequently usually dwarfed in stature and heavily branched from the base where these winds prevail. In shelter it gets up to about 10 metres 
and 30-45 c.m. diameter, but even there it is heavily branched and very gnarled and crooked and consequently yields first-rate knees, &c., for boat-building. 
Branches, leaves and inflorescence abundantly rusty-pubescent when young, and retaining the pubescence or silkiness, at least on the under surface of the leaves 
and on the pedicels and calyces. Leaves 3-5 c.m. long, 2 5 c.m. wide, firmly coriaceous, widely obovate, often rounded or emarginate at the apex, tapering to the 
short petiole, and often with the margin reflexed. Flowers usually in clusters of 2-4 in the axils along the branch ; peduncles 2-3 c.m. long Flowers 8-merous, 
corolla usually in 2 rows, staminodia ovate, acute, hairy. Ovary 6-8 celled, hairy. Fruit 2 c.m. long, 1-5 c.m. wide, tapering to the point, red, edible by children, 
i-seeded, the seed shining brown. Abundant along the coast and through M’Chopes ; as also in Cape Colony and Natal. 
Plate LXXV. A. I, Branch ; 2, Sepals ; 3, Pistil, x 2 ; 4, Petals and stamens, x 2 ; 5, Fruit ; 6, Seed. 
M marginata, N. E. Brown. Vtrn. name— 10, Mooijanago. A large evergreen tree 6-20 metres high, with dense heavy foliage. Leaves crowded at the end of the 
twigs and the flowers occur about 2 in the axil of each of the inner leaves, and in the axils of scales inside them, forming together a cluster of 12-20 flowers termin- 
ating the leafy twig, the bud from which growth is continued arising below the flowers. I, eaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous, 
shining 10-20 c.m. long, 3-6 c.m. wide, with petioles 1-3 c.m. long. Pedicels 2-5 c.m. long, dense but minutely rusty-pubescent, as also are the scales, calyces and 
young fruits. Flowers 8-merous. Petals 24, often fimbriated at the apex; filaments villous; staminodes hairy. Fruit elliptical 3-4 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. diameter, 
