642 LXXVIII. SAPOTACES. [Chrysophyllum. 
line a little within the margin; petiole + to 3 in. long, robust, 
puberulous, suleate when dry; stipules lanceolate, scarcely acute, 
puberulous, deciduous; flowers whitish, 4 in. long, densely 
clustered on the branchlets below the leaves ; peduncles + to } in. 
long, strigulose-silky and glandular, pallid; calyx + in. long, 
turbinate-campanulate, deeply 5- or 4-lobed, pallid-hairy outside, 
glabrous inside ; segments imbricate, ovate, obtuse; glabrous or 
nearly so, deeply 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla- 
segments near their bases, opposite, glabrous, exserted; filaments. 
zz in. long; anthers about as long ; ovary hairy ; style glabrous, 
columnar, scarcely equalling the filaments, undivided ; fruit edible, 
in shape like a cherry, about 2 in. long, 2 in, thick, tomentellous 
(when rather young), apiculate with the persistent style or its. 
remains, 
PunGo ANDONGO.—In dense primitive forests along the banks of 
the river Mangue, sparingly ; without either fl. or fr. March 1857.. 
An ornament to the forests. No. 4827. 
Bumpbo.—In the forests of the district ; late fl. and early fr. Oct. 1859. 
No. 4828. In shady places in Serra de Xella ; a small tree in fr. Oct.. 
1859. No. 4829. 
This species occurred also in the district of HuILLA between the 
town and Humpata, 22 Oct. 1859; it is nearly related to C. Msolo- 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, p. 306, t. 37 (1895), but differs in its stipules,. 
length of petiole, etc.; it is also allied to C. magalismontanum Sond. 
The native name is ‘‘ Mutambote,” and on its mossy bark grew 
Hepatic n. 251 and Lichen n. 424. 
6. C. Disaeo Hiern, sp. n. 
A large tree, with much milky juice and the general habit of 
a laurel, even the fruit resembling that of the same genus; 
branches glabrate, dark-ashy, rather rough; branchlets leafy, 
somewhat furrowed, sparingly hairy at the tips, covered with a. 
cinnamon-coloured bark; leaves alternate, crowded especially 
towards the ends of the branchlets, exstipulate, obovate oblanceo- 
late or elliptical, rounded or obtusely narrowed at the apex, more- 
or less wedge-shaped to or towards the base, glabrous, of an opaque 
green colour, a little glossy above, very pallid beneath, 3 to 12 in, 
long by 1 to 41 in. broad ; midrib yellowish, strongly raised be- 
neath and thickening towards the base; lateral veins numerous. 
(18 to 20 on each side of the midrib), clearly marked but rather 
slender beneath, depressed above ; reticulation inconspicuous, de- 
pressed on both faces in the dry state; margin narrowly revolute, 
entire or very nearly so; petiole } to 3 in. long, puberulous or 
glabrate ; flowers not seen; fruit drupaceous, ellipsoidal (when 
dry), = in. long, 2 in. broad, 2 in. thick, rather shining, glabrate 
except the apiculate tip, with the persistent adpressed puberulous 
hard rather woody calyx at the base, 1-celled, 1-seeded ; fruiting 
peduncles puberulous, hard, lateral on the branchlets below the 
leaves, + to 1 in. long, in the approximated axils of fallen leaves, 
solitary or a few together in each such axil, ascending or spread-. 
ing; fruiting calyx about + in. in diameter, shortly 5-lobed, the 
lobes rounded, glabrous within; seed (when dry) ellipsoidal, 
