Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
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the appearance of a glabrous yellow surface, the upper surface and the twigs sometimes similarly clad at first and afterwards glabrous, in other cases almost glabrous 
from the first. Panicles axillary, trichotomous, not much branched, rather shorter than the leaves. Bracts deciduous. Fruit an oblong dry drupe about 6 m.m. 
long, shortly pointed. I cannot by the description in “Flora of Tropical Africa” distinguish O. chrysophylla, Lam., from O. verrucosa, except that the leaves of 
the former seem to be more regularly and densely coated with scales on the under surface, and to taper more toward each end. Frequent in some parts of the 
M’Chopes ; also in the Maputa and Marracuene Lebombos, and in Natal and Cape Colony, where its durability ensures its use as a fencing pole. 
It is probable that other Cape species of Olea occur in the southern districts but they did not come under my notice. 
Plate LXXVII. C. ; and “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” Plate CV. 
176. SCHREBERA. Trees or shrubs, with simple or imparipinnate opposite leaves, paniculate inflorescence, and 2-celled, dehiscent, woody capsules with 1 -winged 
pendulous seed in each cell. Calyx truncate or shortly toothed. Corolla rotate with a long tube ; stamens 2, almost sessile. 
S. golungensis, Welw. Vent, names — 10, Nadora, Nyangweli and Imperiperi. A large or small tree, frequent in the forests of Magenja da Costa, Nhamacurra, and 
up the Zambesi. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, obovate, elliptical or oblong, tapering to both ends, shortly petiolate, sub-coriaceous, glabrous; panicle terminal, lax, 
flowers shortly pedicellate, 2-2-5 c.mi long. Calyx truncate ; corolla-tube long, with short spreading limb. Capsule pear-shaped, 2-celled hard and woody, often 
spotted, 5 c.m. long, splitting loculicidally to the base into 2 valves, each cell containing 2 obliquely winged seeds and 1 unwinged (seed ?). Seeds pendulous, 
straight on 1 side, shouldered and winged on the other, 3 c.m. long, 1 c.m. wide. Probably pubescent species also occur. 
FAMILY XLV.— SALVADORACEAi. 
Shrubs or small trees, sometimes spinescent. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, entire. Flowers in panicles or axillary fascicles ; regular hermaphrodite, or polygamo-dicecious. 
Calyx 3-5 lobed, corolla 4-5 lobed or with 4-5 free petals, imbricate. Stamens 4, hypogynous. Ovary 1-2 celled; ovules 1-2 in a cell, basal, anatropous. Berry fleshy, 
i-seeded ; seed exalbuminous. 
177. AZIMA. Petals free; stamens free; branches spinose. 
A. tetracantha, Lam. A spinescent dioecious shrub, 2-3 metres high, more or less drooping in habit with squarrose opposite simple leaves, and terminal and axillary 
spikes or tufts of inconspicuous greenish flowers. Calyx 4-cleft, valvate in aestivation, petals 4, free, hypogynous. Male flower — Stamens 4, hypogynous, ovary 
rudimentary. Female flower — Stamens small, sterile ; ovary superior, 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Berry globose, white, pea-size, i-seeded. Seeds 
exalbuminous. Leaves ovate or obovate, rounded at the base, mucronate, usually glabrous, coriaceous 3 c.m. long, 2 c.m. wide, shortly petioled; spines slender, 
shaqx, 2-3 c.m. long, rising x or 2 from each axil, consequently often 4 in a whorl, rather longer than the leaves ; often absent from flowering branches. 
Flowers numerous; axillary spikes 1 5-2-5 c.m. long, terminal spikes 10-15 c.m. long, with leaves and bracts in the lower portion. Frequent throughout the 
Province as also in Cape Colony and Natal. See “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” Plate CIII. fig 8. 
178. SALVADORA. Unarmed shrubs or trees with opposite entire coriaceous leaves and very small unisexual panicled flowers. Flowers 4-merous, corolla tube short. 
Ovary ovoid, 1 -celled, ovule solitary, erect. Drupe globose, seed globose. 
S. persica, Garcin. A spreading small glabrous tree, with opposite oblong leaves 5-8 c.m. long. Panicles terminal and axillary, flowers minute; drupe globose 3-5 m.m. 
diameter. Zambesia and other parts of Tropical Africa ; also “near Shepherd’s, about 18 miles from Lourenzo Marques. Bolus, 9701.” 
FAMILY XLVI.— APOCYNACEiE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate ; corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, regular, tubular with a spreading 5-lobed limb, the segments convolute 
in bud ; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, and alternate to its lobes. Ovary superior, 1-2 celled, or the 2 carpels separate, the styles confluent above, and stigmatose below 
the summit, bruit 2 follicles or a berry or drupe ; seeds with or without wings or tails, exalbuminous. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, few or many-flowered. Leaves simple, 
often exstipulate, opposite or whorled, entire. Trees, shrubs, climbers or herbs, often yielding milky latex or bitter poisonous juice; Landolphia, Clitandra, Kickxia and others 
yield valuable rubber. A large and widely distributed tropical and sub-tropical Family. 
