Bract. This does not agree with that figured by Harms. Brenan Pequena arvore da floresta de Brachystegia This specimen with glabrens or subglabrans brauchlets leaflets sparingly pubenulous or subglabrens beneath and not subcengant at base and strictly sessile flowers, agrees better with the description and figure of X. africana Harms, in Engl. Bot. Jahbr. 40: 20-21 (1907), than the rest of a Portuguese East Africa specimens do the latter or probably not conspecific. J.P.M.Brenan 20. 12. 1954 Illustration given