980 cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. YAlckomea 



Island of St. Thomas. — In gravelly places by streams among the 

 mountains, also in the coast region ; young fr. end of Dec. 1860. 

 Native name " Bugi-Bugi." No. 377. 



The name "Bugi-Bugi" is also used in St. Thomas for Claoxylon 

 Molleri Pax. The name " Dunce " is used in Pungo Andongo for 

 Lepidoturus occidcntaUs Muell. arg. 



27. LEPIDOTURUS Baill. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 316 ; non Bojer. 



1. L. occidentalis Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 332 (1864), 

 and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 898 (1866). 



Pungo Andongo. — A shrub as tall as a man, perhaps a young tree ; 

 leaves membranous, very bright green, remarkable for a long linear 

 obtuse acumen. In wooded places near Luxillo ; a few specimens in 

 fr. March 1857. No. 407- A slender tree, 10 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 

 straight, scarcely an inch in diameter, divaricately branched at the 

 apex ; head lax ; branchlets slender ; leaves membranous. In damp 

 bushy places near Catete ; without expanded fl., a few specimens 

 with male fl.-buds May 1857. No. 407 ?>. A shrub nearly as tall as 

 a man ; stems numerous, virgate ; leaves membranous, caducous at 

 the time of the flowering ; spikes of flowers yellowish-reddish. In 

 damp thickets near Catete in the prassidium ; nearly leafless, with 

 young male fl. end of May 1857. No. 408- 



The natives in this district call the plant " Dunce " ; it has the 

 general appearance of a birch tree, and is likewise used for dyeing 

 black. The Fungus n. 500 grew on the leaves of a climbing deciduous 

 shrub of this Family, probably this species, at Barranco de Catete in 

 May 1857. According to a ms. note of Welwitsch the name " Dunce " 

 is also used for Acridocarjncs (^Sphedavinocarpus) . 



28. NEOBOUTONIA Muell. arg.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 317. 



1. N. africana Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 336 (1864), and 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 892 (1866) ; Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiii. 

 p. 77, tt. 1298-1299 (1879). 



GoLUNGo Alto.— A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; trunk 8 in. in diameter, 

 bare of branches to the height of 6 to 8 ft., then branched ; branches 

 patent, long, curved-ascending ; male flowers white. In the primitive 

 forests of Serra de Alto Queta, rather rare ; male fl. Dec. 1854. 

 No. 359. A shrub 6 to 9 ft. high, perhaps a young tree. In thickets 

 on Mount Cimgulungulo near Montalegre ; female fl. Feb. 1855. 

 No. 359&. 



29. MALLOTUS Lour.; Benth. & Hook f. Gen. PL iii. p. 319. 

 1. M. oppositifolius Muell. arg. in Linnsea, xxxiv. p. 194 (1865), 



and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 976 (1866). 



Croton ojjpositifolius Geiseler, Croton. Monogr. p. 23 (1807). 

 Acalypha ? dentata Sebum. & Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. iv. 

 p. 184 (1829). Claoxylon cordifoliimi Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 

 p. 506 (1849). Rottlera dentata Baill. Adansonia i. p. 69, partly 

 (1860). 



a. genuinus Muell. arg., ll.cc. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A slender, much-branched, subscandent shrub, 



