954 cxv. EUPHORBiACE^. [Brieclelia 



thought it could not be separated ; for he regarded his nos. 361 and 

 362 as the same species. 



5. B. speciosa Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., -p. 327, et in DC, 

 I.e., p. 497 {Bridelia). 



a, trichoclada Muell. arg., Il.cc, pp. 327, 498. 



Bumbo. — A handsome tree, 25 to 40 ft. high, very frondose, 

 distinguished with a dense widely spreading head and a luxuriant 

 glossy foliage, one of the most beautiful ornaments of the forest ; 

 flowers greenish with a slightly purple tinge. In the more elevated 

 very shady forests of Serra da Xella, 15" S. Lat., Scudelbilla, plentiful, 

 also near Bumbo ; fl. and unripe fr. Oct. 1859. No. 371. 



Welwitsch had given this specific name in manuscript accompanied 

 with a descriptive character when he submitted his specimens to 

 Mueller. Trema affinis Bl. (Welw. herb. no. 6288) grew in company 

 with this tree near Bumbo in Oct. 1859. 



G. B. ferruginea Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 511 (1849) 

 {Bridelia). 



Candelahria micrantha Hochst. in Flora 1843, i. p. 79 (7 Feb.) ; 

 Krauss in Flora 1844, p. 427 (7 July). Bridelia micrantha Muell. 

 arg. in DC, I.e., p. 498, var. a, ferruginea Muell. arg.. I.e. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A small tree, 8 to 10 ft. high or rarely attaining 

 12 to 15 ft. or in secondary thickets only a shrub of 5 to 6 ft. ; head 

 widely spreading ; branches patent or even pendulous ; branchlets 

 distichous, prickly when bare of leaves ; shoots distichous, without 

 prickles ; leaves coriaceous, but little glossy, distichous ; flowers 

 yellow-greenish, densely clustered in the axils of the leaves ; berries 

 or drupes pea-shaped, black-bluish. At the outskirts of forests and 

 in thickets, near Trombeta^ Sange, and Camilungo, plentiful ; fl. 

 Dec. 1854-55 ; unripe fr. March 1856. No. 368. In reed-beds as 

 a shrub, and at the outskirts of primitive forests as a small tree in 

 the drier places throughout the district ; fl. Jan. 1856 ; fr. April and 

 May 1856. A form with the leaves less tomentose beneath. No. 368/^. 

 A divaricately- branched tree of 10 to 15 ft. or in secondary thickets 

 usually a shrub ; branches armed with weak almost corky prickles, 

 leavesrigid, distichous ; berries or rather drupes bluish, monopyrenous ; 

 pyrene unilocular ; placenta central, columnar ; ovules 6 or 4, 

 pendulous from the apex of the placenta. At the upper sides of 

 forests among the lower hot bushy mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Queta ; unripe fr. Feb. 1856. No. 369. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A small tree, 6 to 8 ft. high, with divaricate 

 branches. In the less dense forests, especially in the Panda forests 

 (cf. Berlmia and Bracliystegiu) in company with Combretacese (cf. 

 Comhretuiii ruhigmomm Welw. herb. no. 4369), about Pedras de 

 Guinga ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 365. In rather elevated bushy 

 wooded places in Sobato de Bumba, near Bumba ; fl. and unripe fr. in 

 the rainy season, March 1857. No. 366. 



HuiLLA. — A divaricately branched small tree, with tortuous branches 

 and branchlets, and dusky-shaggy on the young parts. In bushy 

 hilly places and in secondary thickets at the base of Morro de 

 Lopollo, quite leafless and in fl. Dec. 1859. No. 372. 



Var. gambecola. 



B. Gambecola Baill. Adansonia i. p. 79 (1860). B. micrantha, 

 var. yS, gamhicola Muell. arg., I.e. 



