Pep&i'omia] cviii. piperace^. 913 



P. freirecEfolium Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss, iii. n. 1942 (U. i., 

 1844). Peperomia Vogelii Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 

 p. 413 (1845). P. freiremfolia A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 274 

 (1851). P. exigica, ^. freirei folia C. DC, I.e., p. 403. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A glassy-brittle herblet ; stem pellucid, semi- 

 cylindrical, marked with two wings due to the decurrent bases of the 

 leaves ; one stamen seen to be exserted ; fruit globose-ovoid, borne on 

 a bract. By damp rocks close to the stream C^salale to the south-west 

 of the praisidium, in masses : fl. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 503. 



3. P. Holstii C. DC. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 226 (1894). 



p. Fernandopoiana var. a. C. DC. in Journ. Bot. iv. p. 134 

 (1866). P. Fernandopoana, var. ^. suhopacifolia C. DC. in DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 397 (1869). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A succulent, brittle, dependent-ascending herb ; 

 stem cylindrical, a little constricted at the nodes, fleshy, pale green 

 or purplish, decumbent, rooting here and there ; leaves strongly 

 shining, fleshy, blackish green and with impressed nervation above^ 

 whitish-pallid and with raised nerves beneath ; flowering spikes 

 greenish ; berries ashy-violet or violet-blackish. On very shady rocks 

 in Mata de Pungo in the pr^esidium ; fl. and fr. March and middle of 

 May 1857. No. 505. 



Island of St. Thomas. — In rather dense forests, at an elevation of 

 1800 ft., at Fazenda de Monte Caffe ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1860. No. 507. 



CIX. MYRISTIOACE^. 



1. MYRISTICA L. Gen. PI. edit. 2, p. 524 (1742); Ludw. 

 Defin. Gen. PI., edit. Boehmer, p. 513 (1760); Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. iii. p. 136. 



Comacum Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 345 (1763). Pycnanthus 

 Warb. Monogr. Myrist. p. 130 (1897), & in Berl. Ber. Pharmac. 

 Ges. 1892, p. 226. Staudtia Warb. Monogr. p. 128. 



1. M. angolensis Welw. in Synopse Explic. p. 51, n. 137 (1862) ; 

 Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 246 (1884); Christy, New Commerc. PI. 

 no. 8, p. 26(1885). 



MyristicaceaWelw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 150 (1 Feb. 1859), 

 & Apontam. p. 554 sub n. 115. M. Kombo Baill. Adansonia ix. 

 p. 79 (1868). M. microcephala Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiii. p. 48. 

 t. 1261 (1878) Pycnanthits 7nicrocephalus Warb. in Berl. Ber. 

 Pharmac. Ges., I.e. P. Kombo Warb. Monogr. p. 252, and 

 Muskatnuss, p. 374. t. 4, fig. 9 (1897), var. angolensis W^xrb. 

 Monogr. p. 257. 



Golungo Alto.— a vast, majestic tree, 30 to 80 or 100 or even 120 

 ft. high ; trunk reaching 3 to 5 ft. in diameter and more ; the head 

 ovoid, loosely branched ; branches patent ; the branchlets shining and 

 distichous ; leaves coriaceous, ferruginous-tomentose beneath, shining, 

 distichous ; flowers on the branchlets of 2 or 3 years' growth, below 

 the leaves, corymbosely clustered, apetalous, cinnamon-ferruginous or 

 dusky yellowish with a red-cinnamon tinge ; the male flowers are 

 arranged in large dense thyroid panicles and the whole panicles, and 

 not the separate flowers, fall together ; forming heaps on the ground 

 under the male trees, they resemble droppings of human ordure, hence 



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