Siphonanthus] xcvi. verbenace^. 84 T 



in company with Psiadia arahica Jaub. & Spach (Welw. herb, 

 no. 3914) and Duranta erecta L. (Welw. herb. no. 5760). No. 5763. 



This belongs to the section Cyclonema and comes near to S. {Cyclo- 

 nema) discolor (KI.) and to S. {Clerodendron) Neumayeri (Vatke). 



8. AVICENNIA L. Syst. Nat., edit. 1 (1735); Sp. PI., edit. 1, 

 p. 110 (May 1753); Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1160. 



Bontia P. Br. Hist. Jam. p. 263 (1756) ; L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, 

 part ii., p. 1122 (1759); non L. (1735 and 1753). 



1. A. nitida Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. Hist. p. 177, t. 112, f. 1 

 (1763) ; L. Gen. PI., edit. 6, p. 579 (1764). 



Bontia germiiutns L. Sp. PI., edit 2, p. 891 (1762), partly^ 

 A. africana P. Beauv. Fl. Ow. i. p. 80, t. 47 (1806?) ; Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. p. 487 (1849) ; Welw. in Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii. 

 p. 328 (1854). 



Ambriz. — Sometimes a great tree. Loge river ; fl. and fr. Nov. 

 1853. No. 5726. 



LoANDA. — At Zamba grande ; fl. March 1854. No. 5641. A much- 

 branched little tree, 6 to 10 ft. high. At Praia da Zamba grande ; 

 fl. July 1858. No. 5709. Also near Maianga do Rei, with erect 

 asparagus-like radical shoots, on sand-banks, 26 Oct. 1853. A single 

 tree, about 25 ft. high ; at the right bank near the mouth of the river 

 Bengo, Nov. 1853. A shrub of 5 to 8 ft., with milk-white flowers ; on 

 the coast of the island of Loanda, fl. and fr., Oct. 1853, in company 

 with Rhizopliora Jfangle L. The seeds germinate within the pericarps ; 

 cotyledons very broad, conduplicate, bilobed at the base ; plumule 

 seated on a scape. 



The Lichen n. 335 at Maiango do Povo, in Loanda, Feb. 1854, grew 

 on the Avicenuia ; also Lichen n. 410 at Zamba grande, Dec. 1858. 



The following is a very doubtful member of Yerbenacese ; the 

 short account of the fruit is taken from Welwitsch's ms. : — 



A handsome tree, 40 to 80 ft. high ; bark strongly cracked ; 

 branches erect-spreading, terete, dusky-ashy, lenticellate, glabrous ; 

 young shoots shortly puberulous, leafy ; leaves opposite and 

 subalternate, simple, exstipulate, oval or oblong, with a some- 

 what frangulaceous habit, rounded or obtuse at both ends and 

 often mucronulate at the apex, thinly coriaceous or firmly 

 membranous, minutely glandular on both faces, dark green and 

 glabrate or more or less figured with patches of scaly puberulence 

 above, paler or browner and often shortly pubescent by the side& 

 of the midrib and lateral veins beneath, evergreen, entire or 

 wavy-repand on the very narrowly revolute glabrous margin, 

 2 to 4 in. long by |^ to 2 in. broad ; lateral veins about 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, rather slender, erect-patent, sub-parallel ; net- 

 veins also sub-parallel, delicate ; petiole f to | in. long, articulate 

 at the base, glabrate or shortly puberulous ; fruit small, edible, 

 called by the negroes " Mungingi." 



LiBONGO. — In a cultivated tamarind plantation, in Banza de Libongo ; 

 only one tree : without fl. or fr. 19 to 22 Sept. 1858. No. 6737- 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Leafy branch ; without fl. or fr. No. 67376. 



The plant called " Mungiugue " in Huilla is Fadogia Cienhoioshii 

 Schweinf.. ante, p. 481. 



