Mimusops| LXXVIII, SAPOTACES. 645 
In the more elevated primitive forests among the mountains of the 
central Queta, sporadic; fi.-bud, March to the end of July 1856. 
No. 4814. A tree, 30 ft. high ; trunk about a foot in diameter near 
the base ; berry acuminate ; the acumen } in. long, formed by the 
hardened persistent style, at length reduced or deciduous. Only one 
fruiting specimen found at the beginning of August 1856 on a tree 
covered with flower-buds. No. 4816. 
This tree is, perhaps, that with the habit of a laurel, mentioned by 
Welwitsch, Synopse Explic., p. 14, n. 33, as having strong heavy and 
durable wood used by the negroes for the building of their huts, and 
as growing in the elevated forests in the Sobato de Quilombo-Quiaca- 
tubia and neighbourhood, where it is called “ Cafequesu de Monte” 
and also “ Quisunhunga.” Compare Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 211 (1884). 
4, M. frondosa Hiern, sp. nov. 
A very elegant and useful tree, 15 to 60 ft. high, beautifully 
frondose ; wood whitish, hard, durable; branchlets dark-ashy, 
nearly glabrous, somewhat angular and sulcate-striate, leafy 
throughout; leaves alternate, exstipulate, obovate-oblong, 
rounded emarginate or obtusely cuspidate at the apex, more or 
less wedge-shaped at the base, nearly glabrous or obsoletely 
strigulose-silky, entire and narrowly revolute on the margin, 
coriaceous, shining, deep green with narrowly depressed midrib 
above, paler or silvery and with prominent midrib beneath, 4 to 
14 in. long by 1} to 5 in. broad; lateral veins numerous, slender, 
not conspicuous, widely spr eading ; petiole $ to 13 in. long, strong, 
channelled above; flowers hermaphrodite, clustered, many 
together, axillary, 2 to 2 in. long, on nearly as long obsoletely 
puberulous-strigulose pedicels, ebracteolate, hexamerous, violet- 
coloured; calyx-lobes 6, densely clothed on the back with short 
thick whitish deciduous hairs, biseriate, glabrous inside, ovate or 
deltoid, reflected at the time of the open flower ; corolla glabrous ; 
tube rather short; lobes 18, the outer 12 of them ovate or 
lanceolate, reflected; the inner 6 obovate or ei ee 
stamens 6, glabrous, exserted ; filaments tapering, about 5), in. 
long ; anthers about =, in. long ; 3 Staminodes 6, acute, cleft; 
ovary conical, strigulose with dense short thick deciduous pale- 
tawny hairs; style glabrous, straight, columnar, exserted; fruit 
drupaceous ovoid, subglabrate, $ in. long, 4 in. thick, tipped with 
the persistent style or its 1 a seeds 3 or 4, ovoid-oblong, 
glossy, $ in. long, } in. broad, % in. thick. 
GOLUNGO ALTO.—In the ite: of Alto Queta, where it forms one 
of their chief component parts and decks the tops of the mountains, 
plentiful, flowering in April and again in October; fl. end of April 
1855. Nos. 4813 and 4813) ; fr. March 1855. Co.nu. Carp. 697. In 
elevated primitive forests among the mountains of Alto Queta ; fl.-bud 
28 Feb. 1855. No. 6719. Fr. and seeds June 1856. Cou. Carp. 698. 
This tree is called by the natives ‘‘ Cafequesu ” or ‘“‘ Cafuquesu,” and 
is mentioned by Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 15, n. 38, who states 
that it somewhat resembles a laurel in appearance, that its trunk 
attains 2 to 23 ft. in diameter, and that its timber is well adapted for 
hut-building and j joinery. It grows in the valleys of mountains com 
posed of mica-schist, in Golungo Alto, Cazengo, and in the countr 
