^•,,,,] CXVII. MORACE.E. 1003 



am TTNGO Alto.— A broadly frondose nearly glabrous tree of 

 moderate size, resembling a huge Camellia • branches spreading, 

 ^00 h branchlets leafy ; leaves alternate, broadly oval or sub- 

 rTund rounded or obtusely narrowed at the apex, rounded or some- 

 what narrowed at the unequal obtuse 3- to 5-nerved base, closely 

 resemblina those of aumlUa japonica L, thickly coriaceous, smooth, 

 gSu entire, U to 3 in. long by IJ to 2 in. broad, deep green 

 love pale green beneath ; lateral veins about 6 on each side in 

 addition to the basal nerves, slender, clearly marked but scarcely con- 

 spicuous, anastomosing within the margin ; reticulation complex ; 

 n erspaces dotted above, minutely scaly-punctate beneath ; petioles 

 gkbrous, smooth, moderately robust, f to H^^^-^^J\'^r\f;t 

 convolute, acutely conical that is pyramidately folded round the 

 petiole, hairy outside, deciduous. In forests ne^^ Canguerasan|e, 

 Bango, and Quilombo, sporadic ; without receptacles, Nov. 1^04. 

 No. 6340. 



?^^^\to^to.^Thigh climbing shrub; branches patently 

 recurved ; branchlets irregularly twiggy, somewhat erect or patent 

 or even recurved in the form of semicircles ; leaves coriaceous, glossy 

 verv delicately tuberculate above, paler and with raised venation 

 beneath 1 to 2^ in. long by i to 1^ in. broad ; petioles i to ^m. long. 

 In the forest, in the clefts of^the rocks of the pn^sidium at Cabondo ; 

 without receptacles, Nov. 1856. No. 6363- 



This should also be compared with F. chrysocercmcs Welw. 

 PuNGO Andongo.— A subglabrous, much branched shrub, o to / tt. 

 high; branchlets densely leafy ; leaves alternate, obiquely oval 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, unequal or sub-equal at the usually 

 obtuse or rounded base, penniveined, coriaceous glossy entire, eve - 

 Sreen 1 to 2 in. long by t to 1 in. broad ; lateral and net veins weak, 

 fot conspicuous ; petioles'^ to 1 in. long. In elevated rocky places, 

 in Pedras de Guinga, in company with ^^^y^'^^f^f'^'''^^^^^^ 

 Welw. no. 1279 (ante, p. 331); without receptacles, March i«0/. 



No 6362. 



Perhaps a distinct species. ,„ ■r,r^+ 



Island of Madeira.-A small tree; branchlets glabrous not 

 scabrid leafy • bark lenticellate, somewhat ashy and rimose ; leaves 

 =e entire, elliptical, somewhat oblique, ^^--tly and obu.sely 

 narrowed at the apex, obtuse and slightly emarginate on the uppei 

 ?ace at the feebly trinerved base, glabrous, ^^^^^^'.^^^Yv'Sd on 

 not conspicuously penniveined, P^nctulate and minute^ pi ted o 

 both faces, dark green above, slightly paler ^e^e^^^ri i fn lon^ 

 by 1 to U in. broad; petioles dusky, glabrous J to o i"- If^g; 

 re'^eptacle 'pisiform, glabrous, smooth ^ in. m ^l^^-f.^' J^!^^^^^^^^^^'^; 

 namerous male and a few female flowers; no gf "^7?^,^^^^^ ^V 

 ostiole somewhat prominent, i in. m diameter ; basa biacts 

 glabrous, short, broad, rounded ; male perianth shortly f^nnelshap^^^^^ 

 bluntly 'trigonous, ^V !"• ^^^g' '^""''^^ pedicellate or subsessile 

 tripartite, the segments obovate, valvate ; stamen solitary ; fema^ 

 perianth ^V i^- l^^g ; style short; stigma longer, wih a filiform 

 apical appendage. At Funchal ; fl. Aug. 18o3. No. 6401. 

 Perhaps an introduced tree. 



8. F.ottoni^foliaHiq.Ann.Mus.Bot.Lugd.-Batiii.p. 288(1867). 



Urostigma ottonuefolmm Miq. in Hook. Lond Journ bot. vl 



p. 557 (1847), & vii. t. 13, fig. B (1848), and in Hook. Nigei 



