1030 cxviii. ULMACE^. [IWma 



used for various building purposes ; fl. and fr. Dec. 18G0. Local 

 name " Cabra." No. 6282. 



I follow Bentham in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 525 (1849) in uniting 

 Celtis guineensis with Sponia ajffinis. 



3. CHJETACHME Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser 3, x. pp. 2G6, 

 340 (1848) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 356 (Chcetacme). 



1. C. aristata Planch., I.e., p. 341, and in DC. Prodr. xvii. p. 

 210 (1873) (Chcetacme). 



Celtis a^jpendiculata E. Meyer in Flora, 1843, Bes. Beig. ii. 

 pp. 127, 171, name only. Celtis suhdentata E. Meyer, Z.c, pp. 

 134, 159, 171, name only. Celtis aristata E. Meyer, I.e., pp. 151, 

 171, name only. Chcetachyne nitida PL & Harv. in Harv. Thes. 

 Cap. i. p. 16. t. 25 (1859). Ch. Meyeri Harv., I.e. 



Ambaca. — A much branched, very rigid shrub, 6 to 8 ft. high ; 

 stems shortly sarmentose, subscandent ; branchlets variously arranged, 

 some of them reduced to reddish spines ; leaves coriaceous, very rigid, 

 deciduous at the time of the flowering ; flowers small, whitish, 

 pentamerous. In bushy places by streams, near Cabinda and Izanga, 

 sparingly ; not yet in fully expanded fl. Oct. 1856. No. 474. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A handsome tree, 25 ft. high when fully 

 developed, with the habit of an Olea or of a Briedelia ; head dense ; 

 branches and branchlets furnished with hard spines ; leaves rigidly 

 coriaceous, strongly shining, always densely and pinnately veined and 

 impressedly venulose between the veins above as well as beneath, 

 pallid beneath : flowers greenish-yellowish. In small woods by the 

 gigantic rocks of Cabondo, fl.-bud Nov. 1856 ; also wooded rocky parts 

 of Mata de Cabondo and near Luxillo, everywhere sporadic ; fl. Jan. 

 and March 1857. No. 473. 



Bumbo.— A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, with the habit of a Rhamnus, 

 distantly and irregularly branched ; branchlets occasionally spiny ; 

 flowers yellowish or greenish ; drupes rubicund. In the shady rather 

 elevated forests of Serra da Xella, 15° S. Lat., about 3000 ft. alt., 

 rather rare ; with few fl. and veiy few fr. Oct. 1859. Na 472. 



The fungus n. 171 grew on this shrub about Cabinda in Oct. 1856. 



cxix. myricace^:. 



MYRICA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 400. 

 1. M. oordifolia L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 1025 (1753): Cas. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. 2, p. 148 (1864). 

 Cape of Good Hope.— In fr. 1858. Coll. Carp. 906. 



CXX. SALICINE^. 



SALIX Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 411. 



1. S. subserrata Willd. Sp. PL iv. p. 671 (1806). 



*S'. safsaf bcdledi Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. Ixxvi (1775) with- 

 out description. S. Safsaf Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, p. 196 

 (1868). 



Bumbo. — A tree, 10 to 12 ft. high : trunk 3 in. in diameter ; 

 branches patent ; branchlets reddish, more or less brittle ; leaves 

 bright green above, whitish beneath. In wooded places by streams 



