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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa 
S. alba. (New species.)' Vem. navies — 5, 6, Insanye; 7, Dane or Idane ; 10, Naguro. Leaves opposite, impari-pinnate, of about 4 pairs of leaflets and the terminal 
one. Leaflets 5-10 c.m. long, ovate, obovate or elliptical, almost sessile, rounded or blunt at the apex, entire, undulated, glabrous. Raceme terminal, up to 45 c.m. 
long, many-flowered ; only about 3 flowers open at a time ; these sweetly scented, white, showy. Peduncles 5-10 m.m. long ; calyx 2-3 c.m. long, split down 1 side; 
corolla-tube 4-5 c.m. long, cylindrical ; limb rotate; lobes 2 5 c.m. long, 2 c.m. wide, with wavy margins. Pistil 4 c.m. long, slender, with 2 flat stigma lobes. 
Capsule linear, 30-60 c.m. long, 2-2- 5 c.m. wide, flat, 2-3 m.m. diameter, pubescent, many-seeded ; the seeds winged at each side, 4 c.m. wide, 1 c.m. long. A small 
tree, frequent in lower Gaza, M’Chopes and Inhambane; also present in the forests of Magenja da Costa So strongly scented that one administratador thought 
a perfume industry might arise to utilise it. Sim 5244. 
Plate LXXV. 13 . 1, Top of raceme ; 2, Leaf; 3, Capsule; 4, Seed. 
FAMILY L.-VERBENACEzE. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, with simple or digitate, usually opposite or whorled leaves, and terminal or axillary definitely cymose panicles of small flowers, usually white in 
the ligneous species. Flowers hermaphrodite; corolla regular or more or less 2-lipped, gamopetalous, 4-5 lobed ; stamens 4, exserted, more or less didynamous ; ovary superior, 
4-2 celled; ovules 1-2 in each cell ; fruit fleshy, 4-seeded, with hard pyrenes, or leathery and fewer-seeded. A large Family, mostly tropical and largely herbaceous, including 
many garden flowers. 
196. CLERODENDRON. Calyx widely campanulate, 5-lobed, somewhat accrescent in fruit; corolla-tube cylindrical, with 5 sub-equal lobes; stamens 4, exserted, incurved 
in bud ; ovary imperfectly 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each. Drupe globose, fleshy, with 4 (or by abortion fewer) l-seeded pyrenes. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves 
simple, entire, opposite or whorled ; cymes in the axils of the upper leaves, making a terminal corymb. A large and widely dispersed genus ; there are many species 
from German East Africa, while in this Province several herbaceous species were seen in flower but not collected. 
C. glabrum, E. Mey. Vern. names— 4, Vumbane, Invumbane and Monuhelobeba ; 6, Inzumbain, Ntchepovane; io, Nequaku, Mukamba; 15, Mwenambiba. A small 
and often bushy evergreen tree, 5 metres high, 15-30 c.m. stem diameter. Leaves usually in whorls of 3 or 4, sometimes opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, 
glabrous, shining, acute, gland-dotted beneath, 5-10 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. wide, with 2-3 c.m. peduncles. Cymes in the axils of the upper leaves, making a dense, flat, 
corymbose, terminal panicle ; calyx sharply 5-lobed ; corolla-tube 8 m.m. long, slender, with spreading, sub-equal, 5-fid limb ; stamens 4, much exserted, standing 
in pairs. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, cells i-ovuled; style long, subulate, bifid at the stigma. Fruit a globose drupe 1-1*5 c.m. diameter, 1-4 seeded; usually 
divides easily into 2 bony pyrenes, of which 1 is fertile. Frequent throughout the Province, and also in Natal and Cape Colony. See “ Forest Flora of Cape 
Colony," 286, Plate CXXII. 
Plate XCVIII. A. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, Flower, X2; 3, Fruit. 
The other species of Clerodendron are unknown to me, and not of forestal importance ; but the following synopsis, extracted from the “ Flora of Tropical 
Africa ” and “ Flora Capensis ’’ in reference to such species as are recorded from this Province may be of use. 
C. Rehmanni, Giirke. A shrub with opposite ovate or ovate-lanceolate pubescent leaves, narrowed to each end and not gland-dotted ; corolla-tube 1-1*5 c.m. long ; 
and other characters as in C. glabrum. Delagoa Bay. 
C. ovale, Klotzsch. A shrub, 6-7 feet high. Leaves 2-3 nate, petioled, oblong, obtuse, entire, cuneate at the base, i£- 2 inches long, pubescent, gland-dotted. Cymes 
few-flowered, terminal and axillary. Calyx-tube J-indh long. Rio de Sena, Peters. 
C. tricholobum, Giirke. A shrub. Leaves ovate, 2-3 inches long, velvety on both sides ; cymes long-peduncled, lax, axillary ; corolla-tube inch long, glandular- 
pubescent. Mozambique, Stuhlmann , 444. 
C. capitatum. Sch. and Th. An erect shrub with hairy branchlets. Leaves opposite, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute, |-i foot long, nearly glabrous above, 
pubescent below. Flowers in dense sessile terminal heads 6-9 inches diameter. Corolla white, tube slender, 3-4 inches long ; stamens curved, twice as long, or 
more. Zambesia and Mozambique. 
* Spalhodca alba. (Sp. nov.). Arbor parva ; foliis opposilis, imparipinnatis ; foliolis 4-jugis, ovatis, obovatis vet ellipticis, 5-10 c.m. longis, subsessilibus, apice obtusis vel rotundatis, integris, 
undulatis, glabris ; raccmis apicalibus, multifloris, 45 c.m. longis : floribus odoratis, albis, pulchris ; pedunculo 5-10 m.m. longo ; calyce 2-3 c.m. longo, uno lalere fisso ; corollae tubo 4-5 c.m. longo, cylindrico ; 
limbo rotalo, lobis 2-5 c.m. longis, 2 c.m. latis ; pistillo 4 c.m. longo, tenui, stigmatibus 2 planis ; capsula lineari, 30-60 c.m. longa, 2-2-5 c.m. lata, compressa, 2-3 m.m. crassa, pubescente ; seminibus multis, 
alis latcralibus praedilis, 1 c.m. longis, 4 c.m. latis. Frequens in Gaza, M’Chopes et Inhambane ; eliam crescit in silvis per Magenja da Costa. Sim 5244. Tab. LXXV. 
