178 XLii. ANACARDIACE.E. [Calesicim 



stalked, coriaceous, 2 to 3| in. long by l^j to 2 in. wide; inflores- 

 cence usually before the development of the leaves, emerging as if 

 immediately from the ground, near or a little above the base 

 of the stems, in thyrsoid panicles, IJ to 2 in. long, sparingly 

 stellate-hairy or nearly glabrous; pedicels short, ranging up to 

 about g in. long ; flowers small, blood-red or reddish, hemi- 

 spherical, ^ in. in diam., glabrate, tetramerous; calyx about half 

 as long as the corolla, with rather deep ovate obtuse or apiculate 

 lobes ; petals imbricate in aestivation ; drupes ovoid, slightly com- 

 pressed, f in. long, ^ in. broad, i in. thick, tipped with the remains 

 of the 3 styles, glabrate, juicy, blood-red, more or less unequal at 

 the base, 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed pendulous. 



Ambaca. — Not uncommon in bushy plains about Ngombe, especially 

 in pastures near the river Panda ; fl. and young fr. middle of Oct. 1856. 

 No. 4438. Coll. Carp. 350. 



3. C. antiscorbutica Hiern, sp. n. 



Odiiia acida Ficalho, PI. Ut. p. 126 (1884-) ; non A. Rich. 



A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, usually about 20 ft.; trunk erect, 

 resinous ; branches glabrous ; leaves impari-pinnate, glabrous or 

 nearly so, usually about a foot long including a petiole of 2 to 

 4 in., occasionally growing longer at the apex; leaflets in 3 or 

 2 pairs (or occasionally 4 or 5) with a terminal petiolate one, 

 unequally oval or somewhat ovate, shortly acuminate (in the 

 adult form) at the apex, unequally rounded or obtuse at the base, 

 2 1 to 5 in. long by 1| to 2| in. wide (occasionally ranging to 7 in. 

 long) ; lateral veins usually 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib ; 

 sometimes a few stellate hairs appear in the axils of the lateral 

 veins beneath ; petiolules ranging up to ^ in. long (occasionally 

 up to I in.) ; inflorescence appearing before or without the leaves, 

 in crowded thyrsoid lateral panicles 1 to 2 in. long ; branches 

 ferruginous with short stellate hairs; flowers sessile or very 

 shortly pedicellate, hermaphrodite, yellow-greenish, glabrous 

 except the base, ^ in. long ; calyx deeply divided into 4 obtuse 

 ovate segments, fleshy at the base, persistent, about one-third as 

 long as the corolla ; petals 4, lanceolate-lingulate, obtuse, imbricate 

 in aestivation ; stamens 8, glabrous, anthers shortly oblong ; disk 

 furrowed ; ovary thick, glabrous, oblong-conical, soon becoming 

 ellipsoidal-clavate, with 4 divaricate short cylindrical glabrous 

 obtuse styles about the top, which as the drupe ripens form 4 

 short horns about the apex of the fruit ; fruit irregularly ovoid, 

 I in. long, i in. broad, gin. thick (in the dry state); 1-celled, 

 1-seeded; seed pendulous, exalbuminous ; testa membranous; 

 embryo slightly curved, cotyledons rather flat, a little curved, 

 radicle short. 



Ambriz. — Bridge of Ambriz ; generally used for scurvy ; strikes 

 root and starts growing quickly. Native name "Pao Emcumbi." 

 No. 4450. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — Abundant by the native villages, also cultivated 

 near dwellings ; fl. and young fr., but without foliage, August 1855. 

 Native name " Pao Mucumbe." No. 4447. A tree, at the skirts of 



