646 LXXVIII. SAPOTACE, [ Mimusops 
near the Mahungos. Compare also Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 211 (1884). 
It is nearly related to M. Welwitschii Engl. 
5. M. andongensis Hiern, sp. nov. 
A small tree; head spreading widely; wood very hard; 
branches and branchlets arranged in a sub-verticillate manner, 
the former ashy and glabrate, the latter tawny shaggy-tomentose 
towards the extremities and leafy throughout ; leaves alternate, 
exstipulate, oval or elliptical, wavy and obtusely cuspidate at 
the apex, narrowed at the base sometimes obtusely so, coriaceous, 
glabrate or the midrib somewhat pubescent beneath, dark green 
and glossy above, rather paler beneath, entire on the narrowly 
cartilaginous somewhat undulate margin, 2 to 3 in. long by 3 to 
12 in. broad ; lateral veins and reticulation raised on both faces 
but not conspicuous; petiole 2 to { in. long, tomentellous or 
glabrate, rather slender; flowers axillary; peduncles solitary, 
tomentellous or subglabrescent. } to 3 in. long; calyx-segments 
biseriate, the outer ones 4, tomentose outside, ovate, sub-obtuse, 
nearly 1 in. long ; the inner ones 4, lanceolate, scarcely acute, 
nearly as long; corolla fallen; young fruit subglobose, pilose, 
rather exceeding the calyx, tipped with the glabrous undivided 
style which is } to } in. long. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—In primitive forests between Pedras de Guinga 
and Candumba ; young fr. March 1857. No. 1229. 
This species belongs to the section Quaternaria, Alph. DC., and is 
nearly related to M. Kummel Hochst., but differs from it by the 
peduncles being solitary in the axils and shorter than the petioles, by 
longer petioles, etc. 
LXXIX. EBENACEA. 
These plants in Portuguese West Africa chiefly occur south of 
the river Cuanza in the interior highlands, particularly species of 
Euclea, all of which latter have edible fruit ; Welwitsch states 
that on several occasions he satisfied his hunger and still oftener 
his thirst by eating the fruit of HZ. psewdebenus E. Mey. ; the 
fruit of several species of Diospyros also are edible. The wood 
of all the species is very firm and heavy, but becomes black 
only in old trees and then only in the centre ; even the young 
trees, on account of the strength of their wood, are searched for 
and felled by the negroes, and for this reason stout trunks very 
rarely occur. In Golungo Alto the best timber is produced by 
Maba Mualala Welw. and D. Dendo Welw., but it is often 
streaked with white and near the bark the wood is always wholly 
white ; these trees occur in highland forests also in the districts 
of Dembos, Dande Alto, etc., and are often interspersed with 
trees of Albizzia Welwitschii Oliv. and Corynanthe paniculata 
Welw. Along the road-sides, where they are annually cut back, 
several species of Diospyros and Huclea, which would grow into 
small trees, are seen as undershrubs or even as herbaceous 
