Euclea| LXXIX, EBENACES, 649 
16, or 17 ; anthers pilose towards the apex, at the apex itself sparingly 
fasciculate-barbellate with a few hairs, the cells lateral; ovary 
rudimentary, densely fimbriate-pilose below, centrally elongate-conical 
above and almost resembling 4 closely combined stigmas. On bushy 
somewhat rocky slopes near Mumpulla, not uncommon; male fl. 
Oct. 1859. No. 2550. A sub-cespitose, rather rigid shrublet, like 
the last No. in size and habit. In bushy pastures where the thickets 
are annually burnt on the right bank of the Lopollo stream towards 
J4u, more or less in masses ; male fl. Nov. 1859. No. 2551. In same 
locality, in company with dwarf Myrtaceze (cf, Eugenia coronata Vahl, 
var. salicifolia; Welw. Nos. 4392, 4393); fr. Feb. 1860. No. 25510. 
A shrublet, 9 or scarcely 18 in. high ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, glossy 
above. In the same locality and like company as the last ; flemale fi. 
end of Nov. 1859. No. 2552. A shrublet, almost an undershrub, 
about 13 ft. high; rootstock woody ; stems several ; berries black- 
purple, edible. On the sandy-earthy bushy slopes of pastures along 
the right bank of the Lopollo stream, in company with dwarf species 
of Eugenia and Gymnosporia (cf. G. senegalensis Loes., var. pumila ; 
Welw. No. 1346); ripe fr.end of Jan. 1860, The similarity of this 
plant with Eugenia coronata Vahl, var. salicifolia, is so close that a 
general or superficial description would apply almost as well for either 
plant. Perhaps it is only a state of this Huclea become in fully ripe 
fruit nearly glabrous. No. 2553. A shrublet, scarcely a foot high, 
branched from the base ; leaves coriaceous ; fruit baccate, 1-seeded ; 
seed precisely spherical, pisiform ; testa hard-woody. In the bushy 
parts of Humpata ; fr. 24 April 1860. Apparently this species. Cont. 
Carp. 704, 
3. E. multiflora Hiern, Monogr. Eben., /.c., p. 100, t. 3; and in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 513. 
Punco AnpDonGco.—A tree-like shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high ; trunk erect, 
straight, 2 to 24 in. in diameter at the base, branched towards the 
apex ; branches spreading ; branchlets erect-spreading, in the living 
state covered as well as the fruit with white felt which soon turns 
rufous ; leaves coriaceous, above remarkably shining with a deep 
green lustre and with elevated reticulation, whitish-hoary with white 
rather long adpressed hairs beneath. In wooded rocky places in 
Barranco de Catete, at the back of the presidium ; young fr. Dec. 1856. 
No. 1257. A small tree, 7 to 8 ft. high; branches erect-spreading ; 
leaves coriaceous, shaggy-tomentose beneath. In the taller thickets 
near Catete, in the presidium; without either fl. or fr. Dec. 1856. 
Perhaps a form of this species. No. 1243. 
Hu1Lia.—A handsome shrub or small tree, 5 to 8 ft. high; trunk 
simple, branched like a besom towards the apex. In thickets at the 
outskirts of forests near Lopollo; without either fl. or fr. Dec. 1859. 
The leaves are frequently burdened with an LErinewm (Welw. 
Fungi, n. 139). No. 1258. An arborescent shrub, 4 to 8 some- 
times 10 ft. high, distinguished by a very dense head, a dusky green 
object as seen from a long distance; wood hard; in the female 
flower calyx-lobes 4, short, acute, broad at the base ; corolla tubular, 
quadrifid half-way, with obtuse lobes; staminodes represented by a 
ring of hairs which persist at the bottom of the calyx-tube after the 
fall of the corolla; fruit baccate, hirsute-tomentose outside, 1- or 
very rarely 2-seeded, apiculate with the thick firm straight style; 
stigma capitate, with several mamille; the style is occasionally 
bipartite and then less thick and more elongated, with the stigmas a 
