Chrysohalanus] xlv. rosace.e. 319' 



1. CHRYSOBALANUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 606. 



1. C. Icaco L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 513 (1753); Br. in Tuckey, 

 Congo, pp. 434, 467, 469, 480 (1818) ; Welw. Apont. pp. 572 under 

 n. 173, 585, n. 19; Oliv. El. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 365; Monteii'o, 

 Angola, ii. p. 298 (1875); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 178 (1884). 



C. luteus Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. p. 453 (1824) ; 

 Welw. Apont. p. 572. 



Ambkiz. — A shrub with a Sapotaceous aspect, 2 to 8 ft. high, or in 

 stony places lower and caespitoseor even dwarf ; in moist seaside places 

 6 to 8 ft. high and erect, much branched and densely leafy. Leaves 

 hard-coriaceous, glossy, evergreen, bright-green. Flowers whitish ; 

 stamens about 20, filaments patently hirsute. Fruit apple-shaped, the 

 size of a small tangerine orange, when ripe rather smooth outside 

 greenish- or yellowish-red, eaten by the negroes, acid-sweet, sub- 

 astringent, but little juicy. Native names " Jingimo," "N-gimo." A 

 decoction of the leaves and also the freshly expressed juice serve sea 

 fishermen for staining their nets brown and at the same time for pre- 

 serving them from decay. Frequent in rocky or sandy parts of the 

 sea-coast, not rarely in company with Rhizophora, near Ambriz, Qui- 

 sembo, Mossul, etc. ; fl. and ripe fr. at Ambriz, Nov. 1853. No. 1291. 



LoANDA and Barra do Dande. — An evergreen shrub of 3 to 5 ft., 

 rarely a small tree of 8 to 10 ft. or more ; flowers white ; fruit red-green 

 or yeUow. Frequent in bushy sandy places near the city of Loanda, 

 especially in the island of Cazanga where it is a small tree of 10 to 

 12 ft. with edible, pomiform, purplish or red- to greenish-yellow fruit ; 

 fl. and ripe fr. March and Sept. 1858. No. 1290. A shrub, rarely 

 arborescent ; at the coast near Loanda ; fr. C(jll. Carp. 541. 



Benguella. — A shrub of 2 to 4 ft. At the sandy sea-coast between 

 the city of Benguella and the river Catumbella ; with unripe fr. in 

 June 1859 ; not introduced as indicated by Wawra and Peyritsch, Sert. 

 Benguel. in Sitz. Ber. Wien, xxxviii. p. 552 (1859). No. 1292. 



2. C. ellipticus Soland. ex Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 

 p. 453 (1824); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 366. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; crown dilated ; branches 

 and branchlets erect-patent ; flower-buds whitish. Sporadic, along the 

 banks of the river Cuanza between Condo and Quisonde, at a distance of 

 300 miles from the ocean ; also near Candumba ; in flower-bud March 

 1857. No. 1236. 



2. PARINARI Aubl. Guin. PI. i. p. 514. tt. 204, 205, 206 

 (1775); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 607 {Parmarium). 



1. P. excelsa Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. p. 451 (1824) 

 (^Parinarium excelsum) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 367. 



Griffonia (sp.), Miers in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 337 (1879). 

 Ferolia excelsa 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 216 (1891). 



Sierra Leone. — A low shrub, 1 to 3 ft. high, with numerous stems 

 from a creeping rootstock, quasi-csespitose, very rigid in all parts. In 

 the more elevated and rather dry bushy mountainous places, near Free- 

 town ; without either fl. or fr. Sept. 1853. No. 1284. A specimen 

 from G. Don's herbarium collected by him near Freetown ; " the 

 country plum of Sierra Leone ; one of the largest trees." No. 12846. 



With this species must be compared the following No. : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree 20 to 30 ft. high, divaricately branched at 



