648 LXXIX, EBENACE. | Luclea 
Maiombo but scarcely reaching as far as Cazimba, not far from 
the sea, very plentiful ; fl. early in Oct. and fr. later in Oct. 1859. 
No. 2548. Seeds furrowed. Cou. Carp. 705. , 
This, as are also other species or forms of the genus, is called by the 
negroes ‘‘ Emboto,” or “‘ N-boto.” The flower-buds are frequently to 
be found in June and July ; the flowers are open in June and July. 
2. E, lanceolata E. Mey., /.c.; Alph. DC., l.c., p. 218; Hiern, 
lc.; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 212 (1884). 
.a, Leaves glabrous and shining, the young ones often lepidote. 
Punco ANnpoNnGo.—An arborescent shrub, sometimes dispersedly, 
sometimes verticillately branched. In rough bushy places at the sides 
of the gigantic rocks of Pedras de Guinga ; young fr. March 1857. 
Doubtfully placed here. No. 1247. 
BENGUELLA.—A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, virgately branched ; branch- 
lets both opposite and alternate; female flowers racemose-spicate,. 
whitish-reddish or whitish ; fruit rather reddish, 1-seeded, deciduous. 
In maritime thickets near the town towards the south ; ripe fr. middle 
of June 1859. No. 2545. 
MossAMEDES.—An evergreen, resinous shrub, occasionally arbores- 
cent, 7 to 12 ft. high. In sandy thickets along the inner banks and 
rocks of the river Bero, plentiful; few fl. June; fr. July 1859. 
Negro name, “‘ N-boto” or “ Emboto” (as also LE. pseudebenus E. Mey.)- 
No. 2546. A slender, much-branched shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high ; branchlets 
opposite or occasionally ternate or quaternate ; leaves mostly opposite 
or occasionally alternate, almost all lanceolate and wavy on the 
margin, the younger ones lepidote; male flowers whitish-rosy, 
tetramerous ; stamens usually 16. In rocky places and in beds of 
Tamarix orientalis Forsk. and Ximenia americana L., along the river 
Maiombo from Pedra do Rei ascending almost as far as Bumbo ; 
plentiful ; male fl, Oct. 1859 ; in the interior from 300 to 1500 ft. alt. 
No. 2547. 
Bumpo.—A shrub, 8 ft. high; branchlets mostly opposite ; leaves. 
much waved on the margin, glossy, scarcely ever lepidote; male 
racemes 9- or 10-flowered ; pedicels opposite, subsecund, a little longer 
than the flowers, rather firm ; flowers whitish ; calyx-lobes 4, deltoid, 
abruptly acute ; corolla glabrous inside, 4-cleft almost to the base, the 
segments broadly oblong, rounded or very obtuse or occasionally sub- 
emarginate, rather spreading on account of the turgid lanceolate 
anthers ; stamens 16; filaments all free; ovary rudimentary, On 
somewhat rocky bushy slopes about Bumbo, in a sterile district, 
sporadic ; male fl. end of Oct. 1859. No. 2548. 
Huitia.—A rather rigid shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with a tortuous 
ramification ; leaves mostly wavy. In shrubby places along the 
outskirts of forests between Mumpulla and Nene; female fl., mostly 
fallen, very few remaining as young fr., end of Oct. 1859. No. 2549. 
8. Leaves and shoots pubescent. 
HuiLia.—A shrublet, 1 to 14 ft. high, with the habit almost of 
Andromeda ; stems and branches hispid-pilose ; leaves dimorphous, 
those near the base of the stems twice or thrice broader than the 
others and obtuse, all glabrous above and pubescent beneath ; flowers 
dicecious, white ; calyx of the male flowers short, 4-lobed or rarely 
obscurely 5-lobed; the lobes deltoid, acute; corolla very deeply 
4-lobed or 4-partite ; the segments obovate-elliptical, rounded-obtuse, 
erect, rather concave and fleshy, occasionally scarcely connate even at 
the base and nearly making a tetrapetalous corolla ; stamens 8, 9, 14. 
