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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
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E. africana. Mull. W«. names-,, Sandalwood j Z usually a straight clean stem, bare below and with pyramidal 
tomboti. A deciduous or sem.-deciduous tree 5-10 metres g ,53 . . Leaves leathery> widely lanceolate or oval-elliptical, 3-5 c.m. long, 15-2 
crown above, where there are numerous slender, woody, spreading, short ultima e g ■ L ^ ^ , furnished with 2 glands on its upper surface 
c m. wide, more or less acute, dentate or crenate along the margin narrowed to the , I different fro , n what lhe y ultimately develop into. Midrib 
at Us junction with the leaf. Coppice leaves rather longer and more rounded y g ^ flQwers at the base , the rest male flowers. Ovary 3-celled, 
prominent, venation translucent, reticulate. Catkins sessile, axillary t 3 Joge h P and red . brown in colour. The timber which eventu- 
with 3 stigmas ; fruit 3-lobed, 1 c.m. wide, somewhat depressed ^ y e it with pro flt as sandalwood. Closely allied to E. magenjensis, but 
ally is nearly black smells strongly, and has led various owners to expect that they cc Id P ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ for while passing through forests composed 
the leaf-form is different, evidently (though not tried by me) thewoodonhela h ^ that it was local and that I had several days to travel 
largely of E. magenjensis I enquired frequently for the scented local usuaUy in mo ist flats, common near Delagoa Bay and Umbelusi, also 
before I came to it, which proved correct as to the species. Frequen : but some 1 1 J’ easily accessible its eX port will probably prove remuner- 
Plate C. B. I, Leaves and inflorescence ; 2, Fruit. . 
A tree a. Machava which in its flowering leafless condition I took to be this species was named Shingunamaaf and said by the nat.ves to be d, met. 
E magenjensis. (New species.)' Vera, names o. Mundinar. Small tree abundant throughout M jnja ^da Costa 
“*■ Not qu,te deciduous ’ but the inflorescence mos,ly in the axils 
of shed leaves. Sim 5590. p|. H Q A Usual leaf . form . 2| Young leaves and inflorescence ; 3. Inflorescence ; 4, Fruit. 
212. EUPHORBIA. Mona-cious or dioecious; when moncecious several ^ | fl Tvotee e t8°fob edj and often having glands between 
forming a flower-like inflorescence, when dioecious 1 sex is absent bu 5 , Male flowers many in an involucre, either independent or in 
its lobes and the flowers. Glands various, if isomerous with the outer open ; each flower consisting of x stamen, 
fascicles of 4 or 5 in which they are placed one behind another, the inner g fllan ^ ent . Anther 2-celled, erect in bud, the cells roundish, flattened, 
without perianth, jointed to a short pedicel, which consequently has the appea J ‘ involucre surrounding the male flower linear or lacerated, 
separated by the connective, and opening by a longitudinal slit across the upper end. de l nffieisfls) B consisl ; ng of a single pistil, without 
numerous. Pistillate flower single in the centre of the involucre and surrounded by the cen(ral ^ Seed alb uminous. Habit very 
perianth. Ovary 3 celled, ovules solitary. Fruit 3-seeded, cac ce e isctng m often su ° cu [ ent and almost leafless, but usually having an acrid milky 
^ on the inflorescence which are often opposite. Flowers in terminal or axillary cymes on the 
young growth, usually green. A large genus, poorly represented here except by small herbaceous species. , 
E - Ti Sd'^n^« SSS ££ 0™r„TrrX W « bating abmpdy, 
■*«». (S P . nov., Arbor parva, conic rabro , v„ foliis 7- “ 
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