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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
corolla tubular with a spreading jparted white limb; stamens 5, nearly sessile; ovary -celled; ovules 1 or few; berry ovoid, few or -seeded, edible; seeds 
peltate, with horny bitter albumen. A small group of little economic importance. 
C edulis Vahl A straggling nearly glabrous shrub ; spines simple, 2-5 c.m. long ; leaves narrowly ovate, acute, up to S c.m. long, and 3 cun. wide ; corolla 1-2 c.m. 
tng, 1 Sb -2 c m™. Beny globose, purple, edible, . c.m. dia.neter ; or in Major 2 c.m. diameter. Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra ; also elsewhere 
through Tropical Africa, and in the Transvaal. 
C erandiflora A De Cand. Vern. names- 1, Natal Plum ; 413. Amatungula. A compact shrub 2-4 metres high ; spines once or twice dichotomously forked, 3-5 
c m long Leaves cordate-ovate, 3.5 c.m. long. 2-3 c.m. wide, glabrous ; corolla 2-3 c.m. long, limb 2-5-4 c.m. across ; berry ovoid, scarlet, 3.4 c.m. long 1- « 
diameter with several peltate scabrous seeds bedded in the flesh, which is edible and also fit for use ,n jam-making. Frequent along the sandy coast Delago 
"d in Natal ; seen also in cultivation at Mutambe Sugar Estate, Inhambane, and said to be native in the distnet. For illustration see Fores. Flora of Cape 
Colony,” Plate CLV. fig. i. Often used as a hedge. 
C arduina Lam. Ver,, names-,, Yum-yum ; 4, Chochuan, Hondo-hashe, and Hlabanques; .0, Cevali ; .3, Beta-umtunri. A straggling or erect shrub .-2 metres 
high. Spines dichotomous, once or twice forked, 3-6 c.m. long. Leaves lanceolate to ovate or cordate, 2-4 c.m long, glabrous. Flowers in cymes clusters, 
corolla-tube 5-10 m.m. long, limb 6-7 m.m. across, fruit oblong, 1-2 c.m. long, usually -seeded, scarlet. Present throughout the Province. 
.8. DIPLORHYNCHUS. Trees or shrubs, with opposite exstipulate leaves, small white scented flowers in rather lax terminal panicles, and fruit consisting of 2 spreading, 
milky woody follicles, each 4-seeded, the seeds nearly flat, with a membranous wing, the wing from the upper and lower seed in each valve overlapping. Calyx 
small, membranous, without glands and not resinous. Corolla salver-shaped, tube widened near the base and including the stamens there , carpels 2, free, sty 
filiform ; stigma depressed capitate. , 
D mossambicensis, Benth. Venn, name- 10, Imporocoti. A small tree, abundant everywhere in Magenja da Costa, Nhamacurra and Zambesia, also occurs nor - 
ward and across to West Africa. Leaves elliptical, shortly pointed, 5-S c.m. long, 2-5-5 c.m. wide, glabrous, shm.ng, with numerous parallel side veins and slende 
petiole -5.2 c.m. long. Follicles each 5 c.m. long, 2 c.m. diameter, 4-seeded ; seed -5 c.m. long nearly flat, with a membranous wing 2-5 c.m. long. Latex flows 
freely from the follicles when cut. Described as pubescent on the lower leaf-surface but I find it glabrous. 
Plate XCIX. B. i, Fruiting branch ; 2, Half of 1 follicle showing 1 -winged seed at each end. 
D. angustifolia, Stapf. A small tree ; leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute at the base, shortly acuminate, 7-8 c.m. long, 2-5-3 c.m. wide, with numerous veins 
on each side ; panicle small, loose, few-flowered. Zambesia. 
,82 RAUWOLFIA. A large genus, widely distributed, in the warmer regions having opposite or whorled leaves, flowers in terminal cymes or umbels, small ; corolla shortly 
tubular with a small spreading 5 -fid limb ; ovary single, 2-celled, girt by a cup-like disc ; fruit a juicy single or twm berry. There are many spectes ,n Bn.tsh Central 
Africa and German East Africa. 
R. natalensis, Sond. Vern L ne-13, Umjela. A glabrous deep green, shining tree, ,0 metres high and up to , metre diameter, with whorled leaves and branches. 
Leaves about 4 in a whorl, widely lanceolate, acute, entire, ,0-30 c.m. long, 3-8 c.m. wide, firmly conaceous, penn, nerved, petioled and tapering the petiole 
Umbels repeatedly branched, , 5-20 c.m. diameter, the ultimate peduncles with many clustered almost sessile Horrors Calyx short, cup-shaped, J-fid 5 corolla-tube 7 
m long, hairy inside, the lobes short, imbricate, convolute in bud ; stamens almost sessile. Ovary single, 2-celled. Berry 2 c.m. diameter, ultimately black, i-2 
seeded, whole plant containing bitter juice, and always growing near water. For illustration see “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony, plate CLVI. Found on Maputa 
Lebombos, and in Nyasa-land, Shire, etc., also in Natal and Pondoland. 
R mombasiana, Stapf. A glabrous shrub with quadrangular young branches, leaves in whorls of 4-3, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the 
base ,0-20 c.m. long, 2 5-6 c.m. wide, thinly membranous ; carpels free, fruit a simple or divaricate twin drupe, drupes quite free, ovoid 1 c.m. long, red. Lower 
Zambesi. Kirk. 
183 CARVALHOA. Dichotomously branched shrubs with thin opposite leaves, clasping petioles glandular within, and few-flowered lax panicles from the upper branch-forks. 
Calyx small, sepals 5, nearly free ; corolla funnel-shaped, tubular below, widened at the insertion of the stamens below the middle, about 1 5 c.m. long, anthers 
sagittate, meeting in a cone, included. Carpels 2, almost free, ovules many in each cell, about 4 seriate. 
