Croton] cxv. euphorbiace^. 971 



in Oct. 1855, when the leaves had already begun to wither and the 

 large lower leaves had all fallen. No. 445. A small tree, 7 to 8 ft. 

 high ; trunk 4 in. in diameter ; leaves membranous, rather rigid ; 

 flowers white, very caducous. In secondary thickets on the right bank 

 of the river Cuango, behind Rodrigo's cubata ; male fl. beginning of 

 Jan. 1856. Also young branches or trunks of a burnt tree, 6 ft. high; 

 all the lower leaves very large and as well as the stem lepidote-branny ; 

 in a " varzea " (moist meadow) in the same locality; sterile fl. Feb. 1856. 

 No. 345. A robust shrub, perhaps a tree ; branches long, ascending ; 

 lower leaves very large ; flowers white. In secondary thickets of 

 declivities close to the banks of the river Cuango ; fl. beginning of 

 March 1856. No. 347&. 



On the leaves of this tree grew the Fungus n. 77, Exospor'mm celatwn 

 A. L. Sm. in Journ. Bot. xxxvi. p. 179 (1898) = *S/;onVZe.s'mm??i celatuui 

 Welw. and Curr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 292 (1868). 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



GolunCtO Alto. — An undershrub or a shrub, subsequently burnt 

 down. Below Rodrigo's house ; leaves only. No. 6731. 



4. C. oxypetalus Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 339, and 

 in DC, I.e., p. 543. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; head broadly frondose, 

 widely spreading, hemispherical, depressed at the top ; leaves of full- 

 grown trees sulphur-yellow beneath ; flowers monoecious, yellowish. 

 In rather dense forests in Mata de Cabondo in the praesidium, sporadic ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1856 to March 1857. Native name " Mubango de 

 Cabondo." No. 346. 



5. C. pyrifolius Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 338, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 550. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A broadly frondose tree, 20 ft. high ; trunk 

 l\ ft. in diameter at the base ; flowers monoecious, white ; habit like 

 a poplar's. In forests at the river Quiapoze in Sobato de Mussengue, 

 fl. beginning of Jan. 1856 ; and at Bumba de Bango, fl. beginning of 

 Jan. 1855 ; also in rather elevated dense primitive forests at the 

 Capopa spring near Sange, Jan. to March 1856. This tree prefers the 

 densest forests ; the native name is " Mubango i5. muxito." No. 344. 



The Fungus n. 412 grew on the small trunk of a Croton (perhaps 

 this species) in Mata de Quibanga in Jan. 1855. 



6. C. angolensis Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 339, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 602. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high ; branches virgate, 

 spreading, leafy towards the apex. Seen only in the shady wooded 

 part of Mata de Pungo, near Pungo Andongo ; one individual, with 

 very few flowering shoots ; male fl. Jan. 1857. No. 392. 



18. RICINODENDRON Muell. arg.; Benth. t Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 297. 



1. R. africanum Muell. arg. in Flora 1864, p. 533 (9 Nov.) and 

 in DC Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1111 (1866) (africanus) ', Ficalho, PI. 

 Uteis, p. 251 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, or rarely more, with its 

 trunk straight, and from its base to two-thirds of its height divested 

 of branches, somewhat resembling a large Carica Papaya L. ; wood 



