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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
V. Carvalhi, Gurke. Vern. names — io, Imporicoti ; 15, Umbindong. “A shrub or tree ; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5-foliate, petiole very long ; leaflets distinctly 
stalked, elliptical or lanceolate-obovate, 3-4 in. long, acute or cuspidate ; irregularly deeply toothed , membranous, glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes lax, axillary, 
with a very long peduncle. Calyx campanulate, tomentose, 5-toothed ; corolla-tube pubescent. Mozambique, Carvalho.” Abundant in the kloofs below 
Estatuene. Maputa (extra-tropical) ; also near Bajon, Magenja da Costa (tropical). 
V. Cienkowskii, Kot. & Pey. Vern. name — 10, Imporo-coti. A tree, 15 metres high; branchlets glabrous, stout. Leaves 5-foliate, glabrous, coriaceous; leaflets 
entire, petioled, obovate-cuneate, up to 15 c.m. long, 8 c.m. wide. Cymes axillary, peduncled. Fruit 2 c.m. long, more or less edible. Abundant from the 
Zambesi northward. 
V. mossambicensis, Gurke. A shrub or tree with long-petioled 5-foliate leaves with petiolate ovate-acuminate entire membranous leaflets 4-6 c.m. long, bearded in the 
axils of the veins beneath. Cymes lax, axillary, peduncled. Mozambique. Carvalho. 
V. amboniensis, Gurke. A shrub with pubescent branchlets and 5-foliate petiolate leaves, the leaflets oblong-lanceolate, entire, glabrous above, pubescent below, 5-8 
c.m. long, with long petioles. Cymes axillary. Fruit 2 '5 c.m. long. Zambesia. 
V. zambesica, Baker. A large tree with pubescent branches and thin 3-foliate leaves, densely white-tomentose below, thinly pubescent above ; leaflets obovate cuneate, 
sessile, entire, up to 10-12 c.m. long, 5 6 c.m. wide. Cymes axillary, many-flowered, pubescent. Drupe edible, 2 5-3 c.m. long, oblong. Zambesia and Shire. 
V. Kirkii, Baker. Shrub or small tree with pubescent branches, and shortly-petioled 3-foliate leaves, glabrous above, pubescent below ; leaflets oblong, shortly petioled, 
entire, up to 4 c.m. long. Cymes lax, axillary ; corolla pink, 1*5 c.m. long, 2-lipped. Drupe globose, 6 m.m. diameter. Zambesia. 
V. Petersiana, Klot. Shrub with grey pubescent branches and 3-foliate leaves ; leaflets small, ovate, inciso-crenate, green above, pale below. Cymes axillary, grey 
pubescent. Lower Zambesia. 
V. tettensis, Klot. Answers nearly same description as V. Petersiana, but leaflets serrate, 2-2-5 c.m. long, glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves below ; pubescence 
on branches brown. 
V. dentata, Klot. 3-foliate, the leaflets ovate, 5-6 c.m. long, petioled, green above, pale below, glabrous except for hairs on the veins below 1 ; and having a few large 
teeth ; cymes axillary. Drupe obovoid, small. Zambesia. 
V. negundo, Linn. A large shrub with terminal paniculate inflorescence, white tomentose branchlets and panicle, numerous globose yellow fruits 6 m.m. diameter, 
5-foliate long-petiolate leaves, with petiolate oblong-lanceolate entire leaflets 7-10 c.m. long, 2-3 c.m. wide ; pubescent or glabrescent above, densely whitish 
pubescent below. Inhambane (Sim 5424) and German East Africa. 
V. thyrsiflora, Baker. A tree with terminal paniculate somewhat pubescent inflorescence; numerous globose yellow fruits 6 m.m. diameter ; 5-foliate long-petiolate 
leaves, with long-petiolate obovate-lanceolate thin leaflets 12-18 c.m. long, glabrous above, glandular below. Mocubella Magenja da Costa; Sim 6046. Also 
found in West Africa. 
200 AVICENNIA. Evergreen shrubs or small trees, growing within tidal lagoons in all warmer regions of the world, and having opposite simple leaves, sub-terminal 
axillary few -flowered inflorescence, and coriaceous i-seeded compressed fruits 2-3 c.m. diameter and length. Calyx 5-fid, not accrescent Corolla-tube short, limb 
usually 4-lobed. Stamens 4 ; ovary imperfectly 4 -celled ; cells i-ovuled. Fruit coriaceous, usually i-seeded, obliquely ovate; seed without a skin; cotyledons 
large, green, conduplicate, with an erect embryo and no albumen. 
A. officinalis, Linn. Vern. names — 1, White Mangrove; 2, Salgiero ; 4, Tobose ; Tobucho ; Chobougi, Cuancua or Cuacuan ; 10, M’Candella ; Imvetu or Mavete ; 
Imbeda ; 1 1, Moosa. (Perhaps Mavete is generic term for Mangroves.) Tree up to 7 metres high, usually much branched and with smooth white bark. Leaves 
opposite, leathery, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 5-12 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. wide, acute, entire, glabrous and shining above, minutely canescent and distinctly grey below, 
and tapering to a short flattened or furrowed petiole, the opposite petioles meeting. Calyx 5-parted, the lobes equal. Corolla-tube short ; limb 4-fid, glabrous 
inside, the back lobe broader and shorter. Stamens 4, shortly exserted. Ovary sessile, ovate, without evident style, 2-celled, with ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous, 
(or imperfectly 4-celled with 1 ovule in each cell). Cotyledons folded in the same direction, one within the other, with the germ behind the inner and enclosed in 
the outer. Differs from A. nitida, Jacq. (A. africana, Beauv.), in having the corolla glabrous inside. Very abundant on every tidal mud-flat in the Province, 
