134 XXXIV, MELIACE.E. [TricMHa 



Serra de Alto Queta, fl. March 1855. No. 1308. A tree, 25 to 38 ft. high ; 

 trunk straight ; timber good but not durable. Native name " Pdo 

 Caxique " (Mafura), Occasional, near streams, in the "wooded parts of 

 Serra de Alto Queta, in the same locality as No, 1308 ; without either 

 fl, or fr, Dec. 1854, No. 1308&. 



4. T. emetica Vahl, Symb. Bot, i, p. 31 (1790); Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 335 ; C. DC, in DC, I.e., p. 660, 



Mozambique. — Seeds. Coll. Carp. 316. 



5. T. grandifolia Oliv,, I.e., p. 335, 2\ qrandiflora C. DC. in 

 DC, I.e., p. 674, 



Island of St. Thomas. — A small tree, in the elevated forests of 

 the island ; seeds, Dec. 1860, Coll. Carp. 314. 



The absence of other parts of the plant renders the determination 

 very doubtful. 



7. CARAPA Aubl. ; Benth, & Hook. f. Gen, PI, i, p. 338, 



1, C. procera DC Prodr, i. p, 626 (1824); C DC. in DC 

 Monogr, Phanerog. i, p. 716 (1878). 



G. guyanensis Oliv. Fl, Trop. Afr. i, p, 336, non C. guianensis 

 Aubl. ^cZe C, DC, I.e. Carcvpa (sp.), Wehv. Synopse, p. 11, n. 22. 

 Meliacea, Welw., I.e., p. 13, n, 30, 



GoLUNGO Alto, — A very elegant palm-shaped tree, 15 to 35 ft, high, 

 with a trunk 1 to 2^ ft. diam. at the base, and in dense primitive 

 woods attaining 50 ft., with trunk 3^ ft, diam, ; branches spreading, 

 long, curving upwards, naked below, towards the apex of the tree 

 arranged in a candelabra-form and there crowded ascending bearing 

 fascicles of leaves and flowering cymes ; leaves gigantic, abruptly 

 pinnate, 5-10-jugate, horizontally spreading, other leaves nodding as in 

 palms ; leaflets 5- to 1 ft. long, thinly coriaceous, very glossy, paler 

 beneath ; inflorescence purple throughout ; thyrses or panicles com- 

 pound, often 2 ft. long, terminal ; flowers coriaceous, whitish-rose, 

 when less open greenish ; calyx-segments 5, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous- 

 fleshy, concave, turning red, overlapping a little, much shorter than the 

 petals ; petals 5, broadly ovate-oblong, narrowed at the base into a 

 short claw, of the same consistence as the calyx, dark red, spreading at 

 the time of flowering, soon reflexed ; stamens monadelphous, combined 

 into a whitish rather fleshy cup -shaped cylindrical tube 10-lobed at the 

 apex, inserted around the base of the epigynous also cup-shaped but 

 shorter disk ; anthers 10, inserted between the lobes of the staminal 

 tube, subsessile ; ovary superior ; style thick, conical, compressed 

 towards the apex ; stigma waxy-fleshy, tenacious, chestnut-brown, 

 large, orbicular-peltate, with more or less reflexed margin ; fruit sub- 

 globose, size of a man's fist, 5-costate, pyramidally acuminate at the 

 apex ; seeds in size and colour like those of Edwardia larida Raf., 

 tawny-red, rough. Timber strong, durable, taking an excellent polish, 

 but consequently difficult to work. Certain individual trees appear 

 never to bear fruit. Native name " Muca^a-Ncumbi," " Mukassan- 

 kumbi," or "M-casa encumbi." In dense primitive and secondary 

 woods of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, at the margins of 

 streams, from Undelle to Camilungo, sporadic ; fl, August, Sept. and 

 Dec, 18.54 and beginning of August 1855, fr. Sept. 1855, No. 1307- 



Not seen by Welwitsch in the littoral regions of Angola, but reported 

 by him also from the districts of Cazengo, Dembos, Alto Dande, etc. 



