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pink and well worth cultivation. Both have 2 long spreading follicles and seeds with a tuft of hairs at each end. Some of the species have huge unshapely 
succulent trunks, several feet in diameter, from which branches rise irregularly, but they have no forestal value. A. multiflorum, Kl., vent, name — Boku-boku , is 
frequent at Umbeluse and in Maputa, and I was informed that the root put in water kills fish. Pachypodium Saundersii, N. E. Brown, 2-3 metres high grows 
in rocky places along the Swazi-land Railway and was also seen near the Inharreme River. 
FAMILY XLVII. — LOGANIACE2E. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs, having opposite simple leaves, interpetiolar stipules or lines instead, paniculate or cymose inflorescence, and regular hermaphrodite flowers. 
Calyx 4-5 lobed or parted. Corolla hypogynous, rotate, with a long or short tube and 4-5 parted limb. Aestivation valvate or imbricate. Stamens from or near the throat of 
the corolla, exserted or included, alternate to the segments of the corolla. Ovary 1-2 celled, superior, with a simple style and capitate stigma, with the stigmatose surface 
terminal. Ovules solitary, few or numerous ; fruit capsular and 2-celled, drupaceous or baccate ; in the latter case with the seeds immersed in pulp. Seeds albuminous, mostly 
peltate. A considerable Family, mostly tropical, often poisonous, and in some cases medicinal. 
189. STRYCHNOS. Calyx 5-lobed ; corolla 5-lobed, valvate in bud, with a short wide tube ; stamens 5, exserted or included ; ovary 1-2 celled, with a subulate style and 
capitate stigma ; ovules few or many ; berry 1-2 seeded without shell, or many-seeded in a shell containing pulp ; seeds somewhat flattened, with a scar along 1 side ; 
leaves simple, entire, 3-veined ; cymes axillary or terminal. A large and widely distributed genus of trees and shrubs, in which the poisonous agent strychnia is 
usually present locally, but not distributed throughout the tree. 
S. Henningsii, Gilg. Vern. names — 1, Hard Pear ; 13, 15, Umnonono. A valuable timber tree 12-20 metres high, and up to 60 c.m. diameter, with a straight clean 
stem and rather compact crown. Leaves opposite, 3-5 c.m. long, 2-4 c.m. wide, ovate-acuminate, shortly petioled, glabrous and shining, distinctly 3-nerved, or 
sometimes 5-nerved. Panicles cymose, axillary, few-flowered, with bracts at each fork. Flowers 5-7 m.m. across, white ; calyx pubescent with short blunt lobes ; 
corolla-tube very short, the lobes glabrous, hooded, with the exserted stamens rising from between the lobes. Pistil short, ovoid ; ovary 2-celled : cells few-ovuled ; 
fruit an orange red berry, 1-2 seeded, oblong, glabrous, sessile, 1*5 c.m. long, 1 c.m. diameter; seeds not velvety, peltate from the middle of the suture, irregular in 
form, but with a scar down one side, and not unlike coffee beans. Present in the coast scrub at Delagoa Bay and M’Chopes, and on the Lebombo Mountains, but 
not seen growing into the fine timber it makes in Natal and Cape Colony. For uses, &c., see “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 273, Plate LXXVII. 
Plate LXXVI. B. i, Flowering branch ; 2, Fruit. 
S. spinosa, Lam. Vern. names — 1, Kafir Orange ; 4, Sala, Insala, Mus-salo : 6, Tamba or Ramba ; 10, Marocobai, Morogovali ; 13, Umhlala. A small evergreen tree 
or shrub, having decussate short side branches often ending in a spine, and obovate 3-5 nerved variable, glabrous leaves 2-5 c.m. long, 2-3 c.m. wide, usually rounded 
at the point or bluntly pointed, tapering to the short petiole, pale under and often with the 2 sides from the midrib more or less infolded upon one another. On 
young vigorous shoots, the leaves are often ovate or rounded. Cymes mostly terminal on short twigs, paniculate, rather few-flowered. Flowers mostly 5-merous ; 
calyx-lobes long, subulate. Corolla-tube and segments glabrous, but throat bearded by a complete ring of hairs half as long as the segments. Stamens rising from 
the base of the corolla-tube, and anthers connected by an interwoven woolly mass. Ovary i-celled, ovules numerous surrounding a central free placenta, fruit the 
size of an orange, or larger, deep green when young, yellow when ripe; with hard shell and numerous flat seeds lying in acidulous edible pulp. I ree seldom of 
timber size; abundant throughout the Province, extending to Natal and Cape Colony, as also to other parts of Iropical Africa and Madagascar, for illustration 
see “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” 274, Plate CXI., fig. 2. 
S. Gerrardii, N. E. Brown. Vern. names — 4, Quaqua, Cua-cuan or Inquaqua ; 10, Muteme or Mteme. A small tree, 3-10 metres high, without thorns, and with 
exceedingly variable leaves, usually more or less elliptical, oval, oblong obovate-oblong or rounded, sometimes even widely linear, 2- to c.m. long, 13 c.m. wide, 
obtuse, usually narrowed downward, 3-5 veined, densely pubescent at first, glabrescent and somewhat glaucous with age on the upper surface, and almost sessile. 
Inflorescence in axillary cymes or fascicles nearly sessile ; flowers 4-merous ; calyx pubescent, the lobes short and oblong ; corolla glabrous outside and with a ring 
of hairs inside. Ovary said to be 2-celled; fruit i-celled, globose 5-7 c.m. diameter, glaucous, glabrous often spotted, with a hard shell and numerous flat seeds 
lying in acidulous edible pulp. Abundant front Natal to Inhambane, especially on the sandy soils ; present but less plentiful in Zambesia (tropical). 
PLATE LXXVI. A. 1, Branch wjlh flowers and fruit ; 2, 3, 4, Leaf-forms. 
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