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leaflets aculeate with recurved prickles ; lateral petiolules short ; 

 leaflets elliptical, narrowly acuminate at the apex, more or less 

 narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, very glossy, delicately 

 veined, dark green above, paler beneath, 1| to 3| in. long by g to 

 Ig in. broad, pellucid-punctate, entire or obsoletely crenulate on 

 the margin. Male inflorescence pyramidal, terminal, exceeding 

 the leaves, nearly a foot long, with alternate spike-like ascending 

 branches, nearly glabrous ; ultimate pedicels short, not or scarcely 

 equalling the flowers ; lower primary branches of the inflorescence 

 3 in. long, the upper ones gradually shorter ; flowers numerous, 

 crowded ; calyx small, irregularly 4-cleft ; petals 4, often marked 

 with impressed dots, ■— ■ in. long, alternate with the calyx-lobes, 

 reddish or whitish-reddish, arching-reflexed in the open flower ; 

 stamens 4, exserted, J in. long, alternate with the petals ; ovary 

 rudimentary, on a quadrangular disk. 



GoLrNGO Alto, — In wooded situations, in Sobato de Bumba and 

 Bango ; by the road leading to Bango, with male flowers, in the 

 middle of Dec. 1855. No. 4558. 



The following Nos., all (so far as localised) from the district of 

 Golungo Alto, belong to the same species, or are nearly related 

 to it : — 



A small tree ; leaves densely pellucid-punctate ; fruit (not yet quite 

 ripe) green ; infructescence shorter than the leaves, 4 to 4^ in. long ; 

 fruit shortly stipitate, marked with impressed dots ; in forests amongst 

 the mountains of Capopa, April 1856. No. 4559. A small tree, 20 ft. 

 high, with elongated branches leafy at the apex, and white flowers ; 

 Zenzas de Queta, with shortly stipitate dotted fruits, June 1856. 

 No. 4574. With male tetramerous flowers. No notes with this 

 number. No. 4575. 



4. Z. rubescens Planch, in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 270 (1849) ; 

 Oliv., I.e., p. 305. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, 10 to 12 ft. high, with the habit of 

 the Mountain Ash ; branches thin, elongate-virgate, variously bent, 

 patent, prickly, with strong spines ; leaflets pellucid-punctate ; flowers 

 corymbose, white ; fruits of a brilliant vermilion colour ; seeds black, 

 shining. In the dense more elevated forests of the mountains of Serra 

 de Alto Queta, Zengas do Queta, fr. end of March 1856. No. 4572. 

 Coll. Carp. 303. A small tree, with the habit of an Ash, and with 

 white flowers. In mountainous situations, Serra de Alto Queta. 

 No. 4573. Branches erect-patent, as well as the branchlets aculeate ; 

 petioles sparingly aculeate ; leaflets above dark green, rather glossy, 

 below pale green, very delicately white-lepidote, sparingly supplied 

 with transparent dots, crenate on the margin and bearing a transparent 

 glandular dot in the hollow of each crenature ; flowers dioecious, white, 

 a little fragrant ; calyx small, almost flat, deeply 5- (or rather 4-) 

 toothed, with erect-patent teeth whitish-membranous on the margin ; 

 petals 4, ovate-oblong, white, many times longer than the calyx, broad 

 at the base, alternate with the calyx-teeth, hypogynous ; stamens rudi- 

 mentary, 4, gland-like, opposite to the calyx-teeth, 2 of them more 

 developed than the rest, ovaries 2, obovate, combined at the base, free 

 at the apex, 1-celled, 2-ovuled ; style of each ovary 1, combined at the 

 apex with the style of the other ovary in a capitate-peltate flattish 



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