958 cxv. EUPHORBiACE^. [Phyllanthus 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, much branched from the base, 4 to 7 ft. 

 high ; stipules at length hardened into recurved prickles ; flowers 

 somewhat rosy. In but little damp thickets near Bango Aquitamba, 

 fl. beginning of Nov. 1855 ; in secondary thickets near Sange and 

 Bango, not uncommon, fr. Dec. 1855. No. 319. A shrub, 6 ft. high, 

 branched from the base ; stems purplish, spinulose. In moist thickets 

 at the rivulet Delamboa ; fl. beginning of Dec. 1855. No. 318. 



Ambaca. — A shrublet, 3 to 4 ft. high, leafless at the time of the 

 young inflorescence ; stipules in the form of hooked-reflected prickles ; 

 flowers reddish. In bushy places by a dried-up stream near Hfdo on 

 the Ambaca road ; young fl. end of Sept. and beginning of Oct. 1856. 

 No. 320. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In female fl. Found with No. 317 (P. 

 odontadenlm Muell. arg.) in herb. Welw. No. 317^. 



6. P. reticulatus Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. v. p. 298 (1804) 

 (reticulata). 



Diasperus reticulatus 0. Kuntze, Z.c, p. 600. 



a. genuinus Muell. arg. in DC, Z.c, p. 344. 



LoANDA. — An erect, much-branched shrub, as tall as a man ; leaflets 

 rather large and tomentose ; flowers bracteolate ; fruit depressedly 

 hemispherical, almost baccate, soft, blackish purple or rather turning 

 black. In thickets by ponds, rather rare and in very few spots, near 

 Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. 8 June 1858. No. 325. 



Benguella. — In bushy places flooded in summer, between Benguella 

 and the Cotumbella river ; fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 326. 



p. glaber Muell. arg., I.e., p. 345. 



LoANDA. — A , much-branched undershrub, 3 to 5 ft. high. By 

 water reservoirs near Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. May and Aug. 

 1854. No. 325&. 



The species of Phyllanthus, referred to by Welwitsch in Ann. Cons. 

 Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 250, n. 132, as an evergreen 

 shrub 6 to 7 ft. high, with the habit of a Buxus and with somewhat 

 sweet blue-black berries eaten by the negroes, and as occurring at the 

 banks of the river Bengo in May 1854, perhaps belongs here. 



7. P. purpureus Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 329, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 349. 



Biasperus 'purinireus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 600. 



MossAMEDES. — A shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high, bright purple on the main 

 stems and branches ; stems numerous, straight ; branches slender ; 

 flowers yellow. In gravelly places and in the bed of the river Maiombo 

 then dried up near Pedra de El Rei ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 329. 



8. P. Welwitschianus Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 330, 

 and in DC, I.e., p. 351. 



Diasperus Welvntschianus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 601. 



PuNGo Andoxgo. — A lovely, erect, virgate shrublet, with glaucous 

 foliage. In bushy pastures on a clay subsoil, between Quitage and 

 Bumba ; by no means plentiful ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 330. 



HuiLLA, — A shrublet, scarcely a foot high or sometimes about 

 20 in. ; rootstock thick ; stems several, erect or ascending, purple ; 

 leaves oval or broadly elliptical, glaucescent, subsessile ; flowers 

 dioecious, greenish ; styles connate in a little tube ; stigmas bilobate. 

 In rocky places, on a clay soil, near Lopollo, in Morro de Monino, by 

 no means plentiful ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 331. 



