Monodora] iii. anonace^. 1^ 



seeds collected in August 1861, and sent to Lisbon in Dec. 1861. 

 Coll. Carp. 189. 



The seeds of this fruit are much esteemed by the natives on 

 account of their peculiar aroma, which resembles that of the nutmeg, 

 and of which they frequently make use for various tonic, stimulating 

 and stomachic medicines ; threaded rosaries of these seeds are met with 

 in all the markets of the coast of Angola for inconsiderable prices 

 when the caravans arrive from the interior, but they are much dearer 

 at other times. These fruits come from one of the most handsome 

 and bulky trees of the interior of the province, a remarkable ornament 

 of the primitive forests of Golungo Alto, Cazengo, Alto Dande and 

 Dembos (Welw. Synopse, pp. 30, 31). 



2. M. angolensis Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. pp. 151, 154 

 (1 Feb. 1859); Welw. Apont. pp. 582, 587; Welw. Synopse, 

 p. 31 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 38 ; Welw. Sert. p. 10, tab. 1. 



Var. a, sempervirens Oliv., I.e., p. 39. Adult leaves rigid, thinly 

 coriaceous, shining above, pale beneath, green, not glaucous, evergreen, 

 2 to 3 in. long ; petiole glaucous. PuxGO Andongo. — In wooded, 

 rocky, elevated situations, by the clefts of the loftier rocks, on the 

 eastern and southern sides of the fortress; fl. Nov. 1856, with ripe 

 fruit May 1857, sporadic and rather rare. No. 774. 



Yar. (3, decidua. Leaves sub-membranous or thinly coriaceous, sub- 

 deciduous, 3 to 4 in. long. Golungo Alto. — In the more elevated 

 primitive forests of Serra de Alta Queta, sporadic ; fl. middle of Dec. 

 1855. No. 776. 



Var. y, macrophylla. Leaves coriaceous, dull-green and shining 

 above, paler beneath, but not at all glaucous ; 4 to 7 in. long. PuNGO 

 Andongo. — In wooded rocky places, at the east side of the fortress, 

 behind Caghuy, where only one tree was seen ; in young fruit in 

 Jan. 1857. No. 775. 



The following belong to this species : — 



Golungo Alto and Cazengo. — Fruits globose, 3| in. in diam. In 

 primitive forests, frequent. Coll. Carp. 192, 1926. 



Pungo Andongo. — A tree with papery not coriaceous leaves ; fruits 

 ellipsoidal, longitudinally and sub-acutely ribbed, half the size of those 

 in the last species. In the more elevated thin woods, sporadic. Coll. 

 Carp. 190, 191. 



Gipepe (Jipepe or Xipepe) de Songa. — Is a second species of 

 Monodora which is distinguished from J/. Myristica, besides other 

 important characters, by the ellipsoidal form of the fruit ; this tree, 

 which never attains so great dimensions as the Myristica of Golungo 

 Alto, grows in the district of Pungo Andongo and in the country of 

 the Musongos ; and its seeds are valued and employed by the natives 

 in precisely the same manner as those of the above-mentioned species. 

 — Welw. Synopse, p. 31. 



IV. MENISPERMACEiE. 



The greater portion of Menispermacea3 inhabit the damp 

 primitive woods of the mountainous region ; and all of those of 

 Angola proper are handsome climbers, although their flowers are 

 not conspicuous. 



Welwitsch in his manuscripts remarks on the difiiculty of 



