40 XII. BixiNE.aE. [Flacou7'tia 



4. FLACOURTIA L'Herit. : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 28. 



1. F. flavescens Willd. Sp. PL iv. p. 830(1805); Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 121. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A dioecious widely frondose tree, 10 to 25 ft. high, 

 with a rhamnoid habit ; trunk armed, especially at the base, with 

 long stout branched subvertical spines ; branches, shoots and petioles 

 reddish ; leaves rather rigid, membranous, above yellowish-green, pale 

 below, with slender prominent nerves. Calyx of the male flowers 

 patelliform, obsoletely 3-5-lobed ; disk waxy, of an orange- colour, 

 covering the whole pan of the calyx, stellately furrowed on the sur- 

 face, obsoletely lobed ; stamens indefinite, arising from the centre of 

 the disk, free, filiform, white, the central ones erect, the lateral ones 

 archingly patent, the outer ones deflexed, anthers extrorse, 2-celled, 

 longitudinally dehiscing, cells separate. Calyx of the female flowers 

 5-cleft ; disk orange ; styles 5 or 6, more or less cohering at the base, 

 soon free ; stigma dark purple. Berry green, then turning orange, 

 edible, ellipsoidal. Sporadic in the more elevated primitive woods of 

 Serra de Alta Queta ; fl. and young fr. 4 Dec. 1855. No. 538. 



5. DOVYALIS Am.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 128. 

 Aheria Hochst. ; Benth. & Hook, f., I.e. 



1. D. macrocalyx Warburg in Engl. & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanz. 

 iii. p. 44 {Dorijcdis) (1893). 



Aherial macrocalyx Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 122. 



PuxGO AxDONGO. — A Small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, divaricately 

 branched above ; branches spinous ; spines i to H in. long ; leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, yellowish-green on both sides ; fruit baccate, orange- 

 red, ovoid, involucred by the 6-8-partite calyx, crowned by 2 erect 

 filiform softly hairy styles, smooth outside, mucous -pulpy within : 

 seeds 2, erect, embedded, compressed-ovate, shortly beaked, loosely 

 woolly outside ; albumen fleshy-cartilaginous ; embryo large, not 

 curved ; cotyledons flat, ovate-cordate ; radicle pointed towards the 

 beak of the seed. Sporadic in the deep depressions among the rocks 

 of the fortress ; fr. beginning of Nov. 185G. No. 540. 



The doubt expressed by Oliver, /.c, with regard to the genus, must 

 remain. 



The two following plants, both gathered without either flowei' 

 or fruit, bear a close resemblance to the above species : — 



HuiLLA. — A shrub or perhaps a young tree ; trunk 6 to 10 ft. high, 

 already virgately branched a little above the base. In thickets be- 

 tween Mumpulla and Nene, Oct. 1859. Xo. 475. A robust shrub, 

 branchlets spinous, leaves distichous. In thin stony woods, near Mum- 

 pulla, on the highest ridges of Serra da Xella, Oct. 1859. No. 543. 

 This is apparently the plant referred to by Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 p. 123, in a note at the end of the genus Aberic. 



2. D. mollis Warburg in Engl. & Prantl, I.e. {Doryalis). 

 Aheria 7nollis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 122. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A much-branched spinous bush, 10 ft. high ; 

 habit similar to that of D/ospyros Dendo Welw. ; leaves membranous, 

 beset above with short blackish rather rigid hairs, and beneath with 

 a yellowish down, soft ; flowers apparently dioecious ; sepals of the 

 pistilliferous flowers 5 or 6, green, pilose, rather spreading ; ovary 

 depress© -globose, pilose, bearing at the apex 3 or 4 firm erect styles, 



