340 Cappartdaceae Euadenia spp. According 10 present knowledge, the small genus £wa- denia provides 2 species used as hunting poison ingredients: £ eminens and E. irifoliolata; they are of ten confused with each other, The flower structure is very conspicuous: two petals are very much larger than the other two. The roots are thick and bulging, Euadenia eminens Hooker f. Small softwooded shrub up to 2m high with strong odour when dry, Branchlets long and thin, leaves large, trifoliolate. Bark whitish, roots multiple, bulbous and thickened. Easily recognised by its conspicuous yellow flowers with two long and two short petals. Leaves trifoliolate, petiole 6-15 em long, each of the three leaflets almost sessile and up to,15 em long, the lateral leaflets asymmetrical, the middle one obovate, all thee leaflets acumi- nate at apex, deep green above, paler below. Flowers very decorative, in a terminal short corymbosely can- delabriform raceme, shortly peduncled, flower stalks 5=6 cm Jong robust, hookshaped or S-shaped; four petals, yellows two extremely long, about 10 om long, erect, in pairs, very narrowly linearspathulate, narrowed in a fong dav, flat, with a mide and inconspicuous lateral veins receptacle with a linear appen- ddage of united staminodes between the two large petals; the other two petals similar but very small and almost inconspicu- ous, 4 sepals, lanceolate, acuminate, 13 cm. long; 5 stamens, curved like 2 wall hook, anthers yellow, oblong; ovary small, cylindrical, two-celled, on a slender stalk, very exducous. Flow” ers fragrant Fruit 15-30 cm long, 06-1 cm in diameter, unequally toru- lose, containing up 10 12 seeds with a sharp pepperlike taste, Distribution Sierra Leone to Gabon. In underbrush of de ciduous forest and on waste land,356 = Combretaceae Terminalia sericea surchel ex p¢ Terminalia angolensis 0. Holl. Terminalia brasigiana Engler et Diels Terminatia bubu De Wildeman et Ledoux Terminalia fischeri Engler Terminatia’ nyassensés Engler Terminatia sericea DC. vat. angolensis tern Termimatia sevicea DC. var, huillensis Hiern Botan | huh or mediumsized deciduous or semideciduous tree, usually 10 m, sometimes up to 22 m in height. Branchlets horizontal so that the foliage ap- pears to be layered. Bole straight, up to 45 om in dia- meter, Stem bark dark brown, deeply fissured, sometimes flaking, bark on branches peeling. Wood yellow, hard, strong. The foliage is silver grey (“Silver-Terminalia’, *Sil- ver Leaf Tree"). Some bushmen make their bows from. the yellow wood of this species Leaves clustered at the tops of the branchlets, erect, ser: grey, more or less hairy when mature, lanceolate, oblanceolate, vate, narrowly elliptic or obovate, apex acute or rounded, mu- cronate, tapering towards the cuneate base, 4-15.» 1-6 em, 9-16 Lateral nerves, looping, shortly stalked. Flowers small, in drooping aullary dense spikes up to 8 cm Jong yellowish, unpleasanly scented. Fruit pendulous, about 25-3 cm long, I-seeded, seed. sur- rounded by a flat wing, oval with round notched tps, red When mature, darkening with age Distribution South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania. In dry areas, bushland on sand, widespread in Brachystegia and Burkea ‘woodland. VERNACULAR NAMES South Africa Silver leaf Tree, Transtaal Silver Leaf, Silver Termivalia umangwe, amangue, amblo mususe umbonono akonola miggonono mangue, umangice masaso smaxonsono ‘taatboom Botswana ‘mngonono, mokuba muss hee Namibia omuseaseta smushosto 20 za0 /xab muy silver Terminalia, Gelbhols, geelhout Angola smoschascho Zimbabwe emangue, mang ello wood, asegat ead, mange ‘mukonono, mutabru, thonona mususe mamasitaba, makomoreo Zambia nyahafiayt, mubeba mufunyi, mulungobeba mukionono, namasimba narucinsti, rulilamkonko alunguti mpulla 2alu Venda Swati ‘Tonga (cast Transvaal) north Sotho (Transvaal) Ndebele Lobedu Kyatla Afrikaans Tswana Kanga 'Ko-Bushmen Herero Mbukuschu ‘Kung Bushmen Nama Ndonga Mbukuschu Ndebele ‘common names Shona Shona, Ndau Lozi (Hiwange area) Lunda, Rotse ena Lor Bemba ‘Mambwe, Lungu Ngoni990/ 8-£200-1978-¢ NASI | y822001, o2ece, © ii | 24 Scled RSNA Ce Quleaaaaecd A sole ee , eine Se ee eo eet i Tee Re Gee Co ere ren tte foment aa EHO Geet ere Ra te ne | Lact Sa eee ee ee a ee eee eg ae a eee ret ac Ee Lea Fee ec Nest act enter pee riee ee Tr eee Pee Oe Ce Pe ue Oe ao arm c ie Rc cain ae PRED Le em Ee chub eek ioe se te ete Sisto oe Bo Ate teleleltirn te tad