Puberulous shrub. Differs from above by leaves being rounded or slightly
hollowed at the base. Cor. greenish. Fruit 1-seeded, red.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur-land).
=T. okelensis= _Hiern._
Shrub, 20 ft. high. Leaves elliptical or lanceolate, papery. Flowers in
axillary clusters, 5-7-merous; style somewhat hairy above, 2-3-cleft.
Berry ¼ in. diam., at first yellow, then red.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur-land: Khor Okel).
486 =Guettarda sp.=
Bahr El Jebel (Madi).
487 =Pentanisia Schweinfurthii= _Hiern._
Dwarf herb, 3-6 in. high. Leaves oval or oblong, obtuse; stipules 2-3
cuspidate. Flowers ½ in. long, lilac, sessile, in branched heads. Fruit
subglobose, puberulous, minute.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Dar Fertit).
488 =Cremaspora africana= _Benth._
Pubescent subscandent shrub, with supra-axillary spreading branches.
Leaves dimorphous, oval to oblong, 4 in. long, acuminate, or below the
base of the branchlets auricled, subreniform, up to 1½ in. in diam.
Flowers 5-merous, white, fragrant, under ½ in. long, subsessile, 2-6 in
short axillary clusters.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Khor Tela, Bongo, Niamniam & Jur lands); Mongalla
Prov. (Yei River).
Fruits yield a blue colour like Indigo.
489 =Polysphæria parvifolia= _Hiern._
Shrub, 7 ft. high, with supra-axillary branchlets. Leaves dimorphous,
oval to ovate, rounded or subcordate at base, or below the branchlets
suborbicular and cordate. Flowers small, 4-merous, axillary, 3-5
together in sessile clusters. Berry ¼ in. in diam.
Upper White Nile Prov. (Sobat).
=P. Schweinfurthii= _Hiern._
Much branched shrub, 20 ft. high. Leaves oblong-ovate, rounded or
subcordate at base, up to 4 in. long. Calyx persistent, 4-toothed.
Berries 1-2 together, ¼ in. diam.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo-land: Malgo Stream).
490 =Canthium zanzibaricum= _Klotzsch._
Unarmed shrub, sometimes scandent; branches at first green, turning
white. Leaves coriaceous, oval to ovate, obtusely acuminate, rather
unequal, under 5 in. long. Flowers minute, white, in dense axillary
panicles. Fruit 2-lobed, ½ in. long.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Niamniam and Bongo lands).
=C. polycarpum= _Schwfth._
Tree, 40 ft. high, in habit not unlike a tree-fern. Leaves oval,
acuminate, papery. Fruits numerous, 2-lobed, ¼ in. long, wrinkled; seeds
horse-shoe shaped. Panicle sub-globose, axillary, 2-3 in long.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Niamniam-land).
=C. venosum= _Oliv._
Unarmed shrub, tree or climber; young parts rusty-hispid. Branches ashy;
leaves oval-ovate to lanceolate, subcoriaceous, with hairy depressions
in axils of veins, up to 5 in. long. Flowers minute, white, axillary, in
globose panicles, 1 in. in diam. Fruit globose, hard, ⅓ in. long.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo & Jur lands and near Badari’s); Bahr El
Jebel (Madi).
=C. crassum= _Schwfth._
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