640 LXXVII. MYRSINE. [ Pattara 
slightly undulate, deep-green, pellucid-striate, paler green beneath ; 
midrib raised beneath ; venation delicate, not conspicuous ; petiole 
dusky, ;3 to } in. long, usually patent. At the outskirts of forests 
about the Capopa spring in Sobato de Bumba ; without either fi, or 
fr. end of Aug. 1855. No. 4835. 
LXXVIII. SAPOTACEZ. 
1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 653. 
1. C. Cainito L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 192 (1753). 
SrerrA LEoNE.—A small tree ; shoots rufous-tomentose, with alter- 
nate leaves. Near Freetown ; without either fl. or fr. Sept. 1853. A 
West Indian species, doubtless cultivated. No. 6735. 
2. C. africanum Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 163 (1844); Baker in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. p. 500. 
C. macrophyllum Sabine & G. Don in Trans. Hort. Soe. v. p. 458 
(1824); non Gaertn. 
IsLAND OF St. THomas.—Branchlets erect-patent; leaves alternate, 
simple. Without either fl. or fr. Dec, 1860. Local name “ Umtuem.” 
No. 6761. 
This species is probably the Cainito mentioned in Afzelius’ Report 
on Sierra Leone, p. 172, n. 40 (1794). In our specimens the foliage is 
rather smaller than in those from Sierra Leone. 
3. C. cinereum Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. p. 522 (1890). 
C. Stuhlmannii Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C., p. 306 (1895), as to 
Buchanan’s cited n. 793. Cf. Bumelia Afzel. Report 8. Leone, 
p. 172, n. 41 (1794). 
CazENGo.—A tree of moderate size, 20 to 25 ft. high, with the habit 
of the laurels; branches spreading ; branchlets much scarred, curved, 
twisted ; flowers monopetalous, pentandrous, apparently white ; style 
thick, columnar, truncate ; drupe 1-seeded. At the outskirts of forests 
along the river Luinha, rather rare ; with marcescent fl, and young fr. 
Dec. 1854. No. 4811. 
GoLunco ALro.—A tree of 15 to 20 ft., with the habit of a Laurus 
or Arbutus ; leaves coriaceous, shining, fasciculate at the apex of the 
branches ; flowers numerous, situate below the leaves on the branches 
of the previous year, very shortly pedunculate. On the left-hand side 
of the road from Cambondo towards the river Luinha; fr. Jan. 1855. 
Cou. Carp. 695. In very young fr. after the fall of the corolla. 
No. 4818. 
Pungo ANponGo.—A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, patently branched 
above ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, silvery-shining beneath. In the 
little forests of the presidium, sporadic ; fl.-bud beginning of Nov. 
1856. No. 4823. <A tree of 20 to 25 ft., sparingly milky in all parts ; 
trunk 1} to 2 ft. in diameter at the base ; branches patent ; leaves 
coriaceous, rigid, obscurely green and richly shining above, whitish 
green and shining somewhat like silver beneath ; corolla campanulate- 
rotate ; the limb 5-cleft, erect-patent, from whitish to greenish ; 
stamens 5, opposite to the corolla-lobes ; anthers extrorse, incumbent, 
2-celled, sagittately divaricate below ; very rarely there is present a 
sixth stamen, alternating with a corolla-lobe, shorter than the rest and 
surmounted with a sterile anther; ovary 5-celled ; the cells uni-ovulate ; 
style thick, subcylindrical, bearing at its apex an obscurely 5-lobed 
