Canthium\ lxix. eubiace.e. 479 



annular, fleshy ; ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; 

 ovules thick ; style far exserted, glabrous, rather exceeding | in. 

 long, slender ; stigma rather thick, mitriform, cleft at the apex 

 into two ovoid little lobeb ; fruit (unripe) pea-shaped with the 

 calyx-limb distant from the apex or usually sub-didymous with the 

 persistent calyx-limb or its remains central at the apex, glabrate, 

 I in. long, 2- or 1 -celled. 



Occasionally the plant is heterophyllous, with some smaller 

 cordiform leaves in addition to the ordinary ones. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — At the borders of primitive forests along the banks 

 of the river Cuango ; fl. and unripe fr. middle of Dec. 1855. Native 

 name "Molemba N-Gongo." No. 3153- In the dense forests of Alto 

 Queta, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Aug. 1855. Also behind Cacarambola ; 

 fl. and fr. 1 Sept. Native name " Molamgela-n-gombe." No. 3154. 

 Branch with foliage only. No. 3155- At the borders of the primitive 

 forest as a tree, in secondary woods as a bush ; at N-delle in Queta 

 occidental ; fl. and fr. May 185G. Native name " Mulanguel-engombe."^ 

 No. 3156. 



The same native name is used for C. Wehvitschii Hiern ; No. 3148. 

 Another native name, apparently for both, is " Muhun9a-Hun9a." 



14. C. umbrosum Hiern, sp. n. 



A small bushy tree, with spreading thick sub-terete glabrate 

 opposite branches and a broad shady head ; branchlets shortly 

 hispid -tomentose, somewhat compressed, leaves opposite, broadly 

 ovate or oval, cuspidate or subacuminate at the apex, unequally 

 obtvise or nearly rounded at the base, thickly membranous, dark- 

 green and nearly glabrescent above, paler-green and more or less 

 tomentellovTS or shortly hispid-tomentose especially along the 

 veins beneath, about 2| to 3 in. long and broad or probably 

 larger; lateral veins 6 to 10 on each side of the midrib, slender; 

 petiole i to f in. long, shortly hispid-tomentose ; stipules from 

 a broad ovate base subulate, deciduous ; flower-buds pentamerous, 

 numerous, in densely crowded, axillary and sub-terminal, sub- 

 globose, shortly pedunculate cymes, subsessile ; ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous. 



HuiLLA. — In forests composed of Parinari near LopoUo ; fl.-bud 

 Dec. 1859. No. 2576. 



Apparently nearly related to C. crassum. 



15. C. platyphyllum Hiern, sp. n. 



A robust, hard, very rigid, dense shrub, 3 to 6 ft. high ; 

 branches tortuous, ferruginous, glabrate, sub-terete ; branchlets 

 woolly-hairy at the extremities, densely leafy; leaves opposite, 

 large, obovate-oblong, rounded or sub-cuspidate at the apex, more 

 or less wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, very dark- 

 green and scattered with short curly tawny hairs above especially 

 along the midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of lateral veins, more 

 densely hairy and pale-tawny beneath, 2 to 6 in. long by 1 to 

 2 1 in. broad ; petiole ^ to | in. long, rather thick, hairy ; stipules 

 lanceolate-subulate from a broad base, hairy, deciduous, about 

 g to fin. long ; inflorescence axillary or lateral on the branchlets. 



