Ipo] CXVII. MORACE.E. 1021 



diameter at the base ; head depressed-dilated, very ample, majestic, 

 evergreen ; trunk straight, bare of branches to the height of 15 to 

 20 ft. and there 2 to 2h ft. in diameter, patently branched above, the 

 lower branches almost horizontal or even drooping, the upper ones 

 erect-spreading, together making up the hemispherical head : branch- 

 lets flexuous, tuberculate ; leaves coriaceous, more or less shining or 

 varnished-glossy above, paler beneath, when dried almost coppery red 

 beneath ; young fruits greenish, tipped with a long bifid style or 

 rarely with several styles ; ripe fruits drupaceous, obovoid, shortly 

 pedunculate, coriaceous, mucronate at the apex with the remains of 

 the style, monospermons, softly and slightly velvety, orange-red ; 

 embryo large, white ; all parts of the tree especially the fruit 

 exuding a viscid resinous whitish milk. All the specimens seen were 

 dioecious. In the primitive forests of the Alto Queta mountains, 

 sporadic or in some places plentiful ; fl. in Feb. and March, young fr. 

 in April and May, ripe fr. in July to middle of Aug., 1855 and 1856, 

 first seen on the northern slopes of Cimeterio do Alto das Cruzes. 

 No. 2593. A lactescent tree, with the habit of Mucamba-Camba 

 {Chlorophora excelsa Welw. herb. no. 1559) : fruit ficiform, velvety- 

 scarlet. Cimeterio ; fr. July 1857. Coll. Cap.p. 905. 



Welwitsch and his negro servants frequently climbed some of these 

 trees to cut flowers and fruits, but suffered no bad effects. 



The leaves in the above Xo, are entire or somewhat repand but 

 not serrulate, and glabrous or nearly so as well as the branches ; but 

 Sir Joseph Hooker in Fl. Brit. Ind. v. pp. 537, 538 (1888) describes 

 the leaves as entire or serrulate scaberulous glabrous or tomentose 

 beneath, and the young leaves as lanceolate serrulate hirsute ; and he 

 states that, according to Dalzell, the leaves on the shoots are very 

 different from the old ones, being densely hirsute elliptic-lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate and serrulate ; and that similar but much larger 

 leaves occur in Malayan specimens ; the following Nos., therefore, 

 should be compared with this species, and perhaps belong to it : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree, with similar habit and in company 

 with the above, near Sange, but never seen to flower, July 1855. No, 

 2595. A tree, 8 to 10 ft. high, perhaps a young state of a larger tree, 

 copiously lactescent. In damp forests at the cataracts of the river 

 Cuango, near Sange, sporadic ; the trees were never seen to flower, 

 though Welwitsch lived near them for months, Aug. 1855. Negro 

 name " N-dua." No. 1232. A tree, 6 ft. high, probably young, with 

 the habit of a Ficus. In the secondary woods of the Central Queta 

 mountains ; without fl. or fr. June 1856. No. 12325. 



7. AETOCARPUS J. E. & G. Forst. Char. Gen. PI. p. 101. tt. 

 51. b\a (1776) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 376. 



Soccus Humph, ex Forst., I.e., p. 102. Rima Sonner. Voy. Nouv, 

 Guin. p. 99. tt. 57-60 (1776). Rademachia Thunb. in Vet. Acad. 

 Handl. Stockh. xxxvii. p. 250 (1776). 



Forsters' genus is probably anterior to the names of Sonnerat 

 or Thunberg, for the preface to their book is dated Kovember 

 1775 ; Thunberg's appeared in the last quarter of 1776. 



1. A. communis J. E. & G. Forst., I.e., p. 102. 



Rademachia incisa Thunb., I.e., p. 253. A. incisus L. f. Suppl. 

 PI. p. 411 (1781); Welw. Apontam. p. 546, sub n. 69 (1859) 

 {ineisa); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 273 (1884); Engler, Nat. 



