HT/menocardia] cxv. euphorbiace^. 967 



Cuango, occasional ; female fl. Dec. 1855, fr. June 1856. No. 410. 

 Alto Queta ; fl. and fr. Feb., May and June 1855. No. 410&. 



Cazengo. — A much-branched tree 12 ft. high, with a dense head. 

 In wooded rocky places on the right bank of the river Luinha, at an 

 elevation of about 1800 feet ; ripe fr. June 1855. No. 411. 



In Golungo Alto the native name is " Gusuzu " (used also for 

 Comhretum dipterum Welw.) ; the Cabinda name is " Sanha." 



U. THECACORIS Adr. Juss. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen PI. iii. p. 286. 



1. T. Trichogyne Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 328 (1864), 

 and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 216 (1866). 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — A small, sparingly and patently branched tree, 

 10 to 15 ft. high ; head lax ; branches and branchlets slender, some- 

 what flexuous ; leaves coriaceous, somewhat shining ; flowers greenish, 

 the male ones like those of Antldesma. In small woods at the rivulet 

 Tangue near the preesidium, without fl. or fr. Dec. 1856 ; also in the 

 wooded parts of Barranco de Pedra Songue in the praesidium, sparingly ; 

 male fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 415. 



15. MICRODESMIS Planch. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. iii. p. 287. 



1. M. puberula Hook. f. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 514. t. 26 (1849) ; 

 Muell, arg. in DC. Procb. xv. 2, p. 1041 (1866). 



Golungo Alto. — An evergreen tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, with a broad 

 leafy head, twisted branches, pendulous branchlets, and baccate fruit ; 

 unripe berries exactly spherical, green, borne on a pentaphyllous calyx, 

 apiculate with the remains of the styles, trispermous. In the shady 

 forests of the Alto Queta mountains at the base of the Serra, from 

 Camilungo to Sange, sporadic ; young fr. June 1855. No. 356. A 

 small tree, with twisted branches, drooping or pendulous branchlets 

 and pentamerous orange-red flowers. In the very dense Alto Queta 

 forests, rather rare ; male fl. beginning of June 1855. No. 355^. A 

 small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high ; head widely spreading : trunk branching 

 at the height of 4 to 5 ft. ; branches divaricate, at length quite patent, 

 with drooping branchlets and virgate twigs ; leaves evergreen, glabrous 

 except very sparse hairs, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, scarcely pellucid- 

 punctate, deep green and glossy above, pallid and remarkably glossy 

 beneath ; flowers dioecious, axillary ; peduncles unequal ; calyx of the 

 female flowers subcampanulate, 5-cleft, with obtuse ciliate segments ; 

 petals 5, obliquely obovate, imlDricate in the bud, rotately patent in 

 the flower, bright scarlet or whitish-red, white-tomentellous outside, 

 ciliate on the margin, hypogynous ; ovary central, obovoid, subsessile, 

 somewhat flat at the top, crowned with 6 penicillate stigmas which 

 radiate from the centre towards the circumference ; half -ripe capsule 

 green, subglobose, more or less conspicuously trisulcate outside or 

 tricoccous, trilocular ; the cells monospermous. In the more elevated 

 dense primitive forests of mount Cungulungulo in Sobato Cabanga 

 Cacalungo and in the Alto Queta mountains, sporadic ; female fl. and 

 young fr. beginning of Nov. and 4 Dec. 1855, and in Feb. and March 

 1856. No. 355. 



The following No. appears to be an undescribed species of 

 Microdesmis : — 



A dicecious tree ; trunk branchedly spiny ; leaves oval, shortly 

 and obtusely subacuminate at the apex, nearly rounded unequal 

 and inconspicuously 3- to S-nervecl at the base, thinly coriaceoas. 



