Pseudospondias] xlii. anacardiace^. 177 



One of the most majestic trees of the interior of Angola. The fruit 

 is appreciated by the natives ; it imitates the shape and colour of the 

 black grape of Portugal, although it is inferior in taste. On no 

 occasion did Welwitsch notice any application of the timber either on 

 the part of the natives or on that of the Portuguese colonists. (See 

 Welwitsch, Synopse, p. 14, n. 32, and Apontamentos, p. 565.) 



Loranthus angolensis Engl, is parasitical on this tree ; Welw. No. 4844. 

 Opilia amentacea Roxb. climbs upon Musondo in Pungo Andongo. (See 

 Welw. No. 470.) 



6. CALESIAM Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 446 (1763); 0. Kuntze, 

 Eev. Gen. PI. i. p. 151 (1891) (Calesium). Odiiia Roxb. ; Bentli. 

 &L Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 423. 



1. C. rubra Hiern, sp. n. 



Shrubby, apparently dwarf; young parts and foliage softly 

 tawny-velvety, with stellate tomentum, the older branches obso- 

 letely so ; leaves normally impari-pinnate, attaining nearly a foot 

 in length, including a petiole of 2 to 3 in. (perhaps not fully 

 developed in our specimens) ; leaflets in 4 to 6 pairs besides the 

 terminal one, above dark-green when young, afterwards yellowish- 

 green, paler beneath, opposite or nearly so, linear-oblong or some- 

 what lanceolate, rather obtusely narrowed sub-acuminate at the 

 apex, unequal and often decurrent at the sessile base, coriaceous, 

 2 to 3 in. long by 5 to | in. wide ; lateral veins 6 to 8 on each side 

 of the midrib ; inflorescence lateral (or axillary), appearing before 

 the full development of the young leaves, crowTled in racemose 

 panicles 1 to 2| in. long, more or less pubescent with stellate 

 tawny hairs ; flowers polygamous, blood-red, sessile or very shortly 

 pedicelled, small, tetramerous ; bracteoles small ; calyx glabrate ; 

 lobes rounded, ciliolate; petals oval or oblong, glabrous, obtuse, 

 imbricate in the bud ; stamens 8, longer than the calyx and 

 shorter than the petals ; anthers short ; ovary shortly ovoid ; 

 styles 4, in the hermaphrodite flowers lateral at the top of the 

 ovary; drupe red, ovoid, glabrescent, more or less oblique, some- 

 what compressed, often crowned with the remains of the 4 styles, 

 I in. long, usually 1 -celled ; seed pendulous. 



HuiLLA. — In rather dry bushy pastures, between Mumpulla and 

 Nene ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4439. In similar stations near Lopollo, but 

 not abundant ; fr. Jan. 1860. No. 4440. 



2. C. ambacensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A shrub, 1 to 3 ft. high ; rootstock thick hard- woody, sending 

 up 1 to 3 erect stems ; herbaceous above, young parts and foliage 

 softly tawny-velvety with stellate tomentum, the older parts 

 obsoletely so; leaves impari-pinnate, attaining 8 in. in length 

 including a petiole of 2 in. ; leaflets in 2 or 3 pairs besides the 

 terminal one, oval or rather obovate, above dark green and 

 becoming nearly free from tomentum, pallid-tawny beneath, 

 opposite or nearly so, very obtuse retuse or abiuptly sub-apiculate 

 at apex, unequal at the sessile or subsessile base; lateral veins 

 about 8 on each side of the midrib, the terminal one often shortly 



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