Chrysophyllum| LXXVII. SAPOTACES. 641 
stigma (or, rather, crowned at the apex with 5 depressed stigmatic 
tubercles), these 5 elevated points of the stigma being copiously 
milky at the time of the flower, and so appearing whitish. At the 
base of the elevated rocks of the presidium and in their fissures, 
sporadic ; fl. middle of Nov. 1856. No. 4824. <A tree of moderate 
size, with a dense obovoid head. In the dense primitive forests on 
the Calemba island in the river Cuanza; young fr. March 1857. 
No. 4826. 
With this species, the type No. of which is 4824, must be compared 
Sideroxylon longistylum Baker, l.c., p. 502. 
4, C. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. p. 521 (1890); Elliot 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 84 (1894), 
Sideroxylon sp., Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 211 (1884). 
Gotunco AuTo.—A slender shrub, climbing to a height of 25 ft. 
flowers small, white. In dense forests among the mountains of the 
eastern Queta ; fl. in Jan. and March; fr. Sept. 1855. No. 4831. A 
scandent shrub, trunk scarcely an inch thick at its base, with long 
spines. In Mata de Mangue; fl. April 1855. No. 4833. A sub- 
scandent shrub; leaves evergreen, glossy, penni-nerved ; flowers 
axillary, white ; corolla waxy, rather fleshy. In dense thickets among 
the mountains on the north-eastern side of Queta ; fl. beginning of 
June 1855. No. 4832. In the denser primitive forests of Serra de 
Alto Queta by streams ; fl.-bud June 1855. No. 4834. An evergreen 
shrub, climbing far and high; branches strigose-tomentose, spreading 
horizontally ; leaves shining above, paler beneath, more or less dis- 
tichous, very densely penni-nerved, cartilaginous on the margin ; 
flowers globose, very small, scarcely 3, in. in diameter, axillary, solitary 
or 2 or 3 (or in male flowers several) together ; corolla gamopetalous, 
sub-urceolate ; the limb deeply crenate; the lobes erect or rather 
connivent ; stamens (in female flowers) 0 ; style thick, straight ; ovary 
superior, free, hirsute with ferruginous hairs. In the more elevated 
wooded mountainous parts of Sobato de Bumba, near Capopa; fl. 
28 July 1855. No.4830. An elegant, climbing shrub. Serra de Alto 
Queta ; fr. August 1855. Coz. Carp. 699. 
This shrub is called by the negroes in Golungo Alto “ Jungingi,” and 
the seeds “‘ Jimbundo” ; the bony, highly polished seeds are worn by 
the natives as an ornament, and are suspended from the neck in a 
knot, as anamulet. According to Ficalho, /.c., the native name of the 
shrub is Tingingi. 
5. C. argyrophyllum Hiern, sp. n. 
A beautiful tree, 20 to 40 ft. high or less, with a broad leafy 
head; trunk 2 to 3 ft. in diameter, with a hard excellent wood ; 
branches spreading; branchlets dark-ashy, subterete, nodulose, 
glabrate and closely scarred or towards the tips puberulous and 
leafy ; leaves alternate, crowded towards the tips of the branchlets, 
oblanceolate or somewhat oblong, retuse or emarginate and some- 
times minutely mucronulate at the apex, wedge-shaped or narrowed 
to or towards the base, coriaceous, rigid, erect spreading or re- 
flected, glaucous-shining and glabrous above, silvery-silky with 
short adpressed sometimes sub-obsolete tomentum beneath, 3 to 
§iin. long by 3 to 21 in. broad; margin thinly cartilaginous, 
recurving, entire; lateral veins very numerous, delicate, incon- 
spicuous, widely spreading, anastomosing beneath in a sinuous 
