Compilation
Vangueria macrocalyx

young branches, leaves, and flowers tomentose; leaves shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, at length subglabrous; cymes axillary, subsessile, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calyx teeth linear-oblong, obtuse, as long as the corolla; throat of the corolla naked or nearly so; ovary 5-celled; stigma obtuse. A shrub, 6–8 feet high. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long; quite entire or subdenticulate; the petiole 1–2 lines long. Peduncles bracteolate. Calyx tube 1 line long, the lobes 3 lines long, 1 line broad. Corolla 2 1/2 lines long, the tube nearly glabrous outwards, but silky near the base within, the throat quite glabrous, or with a few hairs; lobes glabrous above, acute. Ovary 5-celled. Stigma as in V. infausta. The ripe fruit as large as a common plum, 3–4 seeded, delicious eating. (W. T. Gerrard).