142 XXXVI. OLAciNE^. [Olax 



base and slit open with a longitudinal fissure, sympetalous up to the 

 middle. Disk cupuliform ; ovary whitish, ovoid- conical, more or less 

 angular, borne on a very short disk-like gynophore, 1 -celled ; style 

 rather firm, nearly as long as the rest of the pistil, whitish ; stigma 

 obsoletely 3-lobed ; ovules usually 3, pendulous, 1 or 2 much larger 

 than the others ; drupe red when ripe, green when young, spherical, 

 apiculate at the top with the remains of the style, at the base closely 

 adhering to the disk-shaped not enlarged calyx ; seed solitary ; testa 

 rather hard, whitish. In shady woods throughout nearly the whole 

 district of Alto Queta ; Mata de Mangues, fl. Nov. 1855 ; near N-delle, 

 fr. beginning of July 1855. No. 1124. A low twisted shrub ; branch- 

 lets green ; leaves thinly coriaceous, evergreen, dark green, glossy on 

 both surfaces ; corolla white, rather fleshy, campanulate ; segments 

 reflexed at the time of flowering ; anthers yellow, exserted. In shady 

 woods, near Capopa ; fl. end of Dec. 1855. A narrow-leaved form. 

 No. 11246. 



Dembos. — In very dense primitive woods at the right bank of the 

 river Zenza ; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 1125. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A little shrub, 2 ft. high, with green stem and 

 spreading branches ; ripe drupes red. In the shaded rocky spots of 

 Barranco da Pedra Songue ; fl. beginning of March 1857. No. 1126. 



Under the last No. are specimens of the same species with red 

 fruits, collected at Quibolo in the district of Golungo Alto in July 1856. 



4. OPILIA Koxb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 350. 



1. 0. amentacea Roxb. PI. Coromand. ii. p. 31, t. 158 (1798); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 352. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A climbing shrub ; leaves fleshy- coriaceous, 

 thick, rigid, deciduous at the time of flowering, fragile ; flowers 

 yellowish ; fruits at first green, afterwards turning red ; embryo 

 minute, nestling in the top of the albumen. Freely climbing on the 

 plant called " Mussondo," Pseudospond'ias microcarim Engl. (Welw. 

 Herb. 4453-4455). In the rocky parts of Barrancos de Catete within 

 the stronghold, sparingly ; fl. May 1857, fr. Dec. 1856. No. 470. 



5. APODYTES E. Meyer; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 351. 



1. A. dimidiata E. Mey. ex Arnott in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. 

 p. 155 (1841); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 355. 



Hemilohiimi ficifolium Welw. Synopse, p. 20, n. 49 (1862). 



HuiLLA. — A tree, 15 to 30 ft. high or more ; trunk straight, ^^ to \ ft. 

 diam., rarely attaining 1^ ft. diam. ; habit almost exactly like that of 

 Ficm Benjaiuina L. ; wood whitish, dense, firm, good and durable, with 

 very fine grain ; branches sub- patent ; branchlets rather nodding, the 

 younger ones erect-patent ; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, glossy, deep- 

 green, a little paler beneath ; flowers white, very pleasantly and power- 

 fully fragrant, with an aroma like that of Syringa and orange, arranged 

 in leaf -opposed panicles ; calyx small, 5-toothed or with 1 or 2 teeth 

 obsolete; petals 4 or more frequently 5, hypogynous, rigidly rather 

 fleshy, not hairy msido, valvate in {estivation, spreading at the time of 

 flowering ; stamens 5 or more rarely 4 or very rarely 3, free, hypogynous ; 

 filaments flattened from the base, gradually thick-filiform, erect ; anthers 

 introrse, narrowly cordate-oblong, attached at the sinus of the back, 

 at first erect but soon versatile, dehiscing longitudinally ; ovary free, 

 collaterally 2-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous from the apex at the 

 inner angle of each cell, anatropous ; style excentric, curved at the base, 



