Melia] xxxiv. meliace^. 131 



Occasionally cultivated in gardens at Loanda, having been introduced 

 from Portugal about tbe year 1849, and sometimes spontaneous, fully 

 enjoying an equinoctial climate ; 11. and ripe fr. on the same tree 

 Nov. 1858. No. 1297. 



GolunCtO Alto. — Flowers of a deep lilac colour. Cultivated in 

 gardens near Sange from seeds sent from Lisbon, in young fl. August 

 1857. No. 1294. ? Leaves (perhaps belonging to the next following 

 species) from a cultivated tree, gathered in the garden of Senr. Pereira 

 at the banks of the river Luinha, near the boundary of the district of 

 Cazengo, Dec. 1854. No. 1296. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A young plant without fl. or fr. (perhaps belong- 

 ing to the next following species), the up-growth from the stock of a 

 burnt tree ; in thickets within the fortress of Pungo Andongo, Dec. 

 1856. No. 1295. 



2. M. dubia Cav. Diss, (vii.) p. 364 (1789); Hiern in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 545 (1875) ; C. DC, ?.c., p. 453 (1878). 



31. Bomholo Welw. Apont. p. 561, under n. 143 ; Welw. 

 Synopse, p. 12, n. 24; C. DC, I.e., p. 454, n. 4 (Bambolo). M. 

 cethiopica Welw. Apont. p. 584, n. 5. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A handsome tree, 30 to 50 ft. high or more, with 

 an ample crown ; trunk 2 to 3 ft. in. diam. ; branches on the lower part 

 of the trunk sparse or none ; wood smooth, cinnamon-coloured or 

 turning reddish, durable, tenacious and easily cut, and therefore highly 

 valued by the natives for various domestic utensils ; flowers pale 

 sulphur-yellow, sweet-scented ; ripe fruits yellowish-green or dark 

 green, cylindric-ellipsoidal, blunt at both ends, 1 to IJ in. long, nearly 

 f in. thick in the middle ; juice somewhat milky, the bitterest sub- 

 stance found by Welwitsch in any plant of tropical Africa, and when 

 properly prepared would probably prove an eflEicacious remedy against 

 fever in like manner as quinine bark ; kernels of the fruit cylindrical, 

 nearly or quite an inch long, about ^ in. diam. or more, blunt at both 

 ends. Frequent in the more elevated primitive woods throughout the 

 district ; fl. and fr. Sept. and beginning of Oct. 1855 and April 1858. 

 No. 1298 and Coll. Carp. 310. ? Upper and lower leaves of a young 

 tree, 12 ft. high, at Sange in front of Senr. Perreira's cubata, Feb. 1855. 

 No. 12986. A vast tree ; leaves pinnate, coriaceous ; fruit drupaceous, 

 olive-shaped, black, glossy, paniculate, hanging down from the apex of 

 the branchlets ; Sept. 1855. Apparently this plant. Coll. Carp. 353. 



Also in the districts of Cazengo, Pungo Andongo, and Malange 

 ("Welw. Synopse, I.e.). Native name " Bombolo." 



In the territory called Cambondo, in the district of Golungo Alto, 

 there are manufactured every year thousands of small chests of this 

 Bombolo wood, which are sold by the negroes in all the interior regions 

 (Welw. Synopse, I.e.). 



4. GUAREA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 335. 



1. G. africana Welw. ex C. DC. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. 

 p. 576 (1878). 



Golungo Alto. — An immense handsome tree, 30 to 50 ft. high ; 

 trunk very strict, 3 to 4i ft. diam. at the base ; bark ashy-reddish ; 

 branches patent-ascending, elongated ; crown very elegant ; leaves 

 especially at the extremities of the branches crowded, very patent, 2 

 to 2^ ft. long ; leaflets about 23, alternate, narrowly oblong, cu^^pidate, 

 5 to 7 in. long, 1 to \^ in. wide, glabrous on both sides ; petiolules \io 



