CXV. EUPHORBIACE^. 955 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — A Small tree, 8 to 9 ft. high ; trunk straight, 

 with broad crown at the top ; branches patent ; branchlets ferru- 

 ginous-hirsute ; leaves rather rigid, scarcely coriaceous, hirsute along 

 the veins beneath, not recurved on the margin ; flowers pentamerous, 

 greenish purple. In bushy secondary woods between the prassidium 

 and Pedras de Guinga (north-eastern Sobato), sparingly ; ft. Jan. 

 1857. No. 364. A loosely branched tree, 5 to 7 ft. high, with spiny 

 branches. At the outskirts of Mata de Pungo in the prtesidium, only 

 one little tree seen without fl. or fr. May 1857. Appears to belong 

 here. No. 360. 



7. B. scandens Willd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 979 (1806). 



Clutia stipularis L. Maiit. PI. p. 127 (1767). Cluytia scandens 

 Eoxb. PI. Corom. ii. p. 39. t. 173 (1798). B. retusa Adr. Juss. 

 Euphorb. Tent. p. 26, t. 7, f. 22 (1824). B. sUjndaris Blume, 

 Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 597 (1825) ; Muell. arg. in DC, I.e., p. 499. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub of 3 to 4 ft. with numerous stems, probably the 

 upgrowth from the stock of a burnt tree. In hilly bushy places on a 

 mica-schist formation, near Mumpulla ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 363- 

 A small tree or arborescent shrub, 6 to 9 ft. high, with the habit of a 

 Greww ; branches divaricate ; branchlets and coriaceous leaves sub- 

 distichous ; flowers green-yellowish, with the general appearance of 

 the order or of RhamnaceEe. In sandy thickets near Lopollo and 

 around the great lake of Ivantala, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. and Feb. 

 1860 ; fr. end of March 1860. No. 362. A small, elegant, evergreen 

 tree ; leaves coriaceous, shining, distichous along the branchlets ; 

 drupes blackish purple, mucous. In thickets near Forte de Huilla ; 

 fr. May 1860. Coll. Carp. 34. 



See note under B. elegans, p. 953. 



4. CLEISTANTHUS Hook.f.; Bentli.&Hook.f.Gen.Pl.iii.p.268. 



1. C. angolensis Welw. ex Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 339 

 (1864), and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 505 (1866) 



KaluhaburungJios angolensis O, Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 607 

 (1891). 



Pungo Axdongo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; head lax ; leaves 

 deciduous at the time of the flower, flowers monoecious, possibly 

 sometimes dioecious, greenish yellow. In the less dense forests 

 between Pungo Andongo and Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857 ; near 

 Luxillo, ripe fr. March 1857. No. 353. A tree of 15 ft. ; male 

 flowers from greenish to yellowish. In small thin forests between 

 Catete and Luxillo ; male fl. Feb. 1857. No. 354 



The male flowers are often more abundant than the female ones. 



2. C. (?) glaucus Hiern, sp. n. 



A very nearly glabrous tree, 12 to 40 ft. high ; trunk straight, 

 bare of branches for a long distance below, 6 to 18 in. in diameter ; 

 head widely spreading, leafy ; branches subterete, very slightly 

 angular ; back grey and with bro'svn cracks ; branchlets alternate, 

 spreading or erect-patent or ascending, rather slender, obtusely 

 angular, striate, leafy; leaves alternate, oval or broadly ovate, 

 rounded emarginate or obtusely pointed at the apex, unequal and 

 obtusely narrowed or sub-truncate at the base, coriaceous, very 

 deep green above, highly glaucous beneath, very delicately 



