650 LXXIX. EBENACEA. [ Luclea 
little smaller. In the thin bushy forest of Mata de Monino ; young 
fr. Feb. 1860. No. 2557. <A tree-like shrub, 4 to 8, usually only 
4 ft. high, with a very dense black-green head and sub-verticellate, 
twiggy branches. In wooded places with tall bushes along the 
denser forests from Lopollo towards Ju, in Mata de J4u, not plentiful ; 
fl.-bud end of May 1860. No. 2555. 
No. 2556 is vacant, the plant intended for this No. having been 
included under No. 1258 as given above. No. 2556 consists of a leafy 
shoot, without either fl. or fr., of a small tree or rather an arborescent 
shrub, 8 ft. high, tomentose almost in every part, which occurred in 
the Bumbo district at the base of Chao da Xella in Oct. 1859; it can 
scarcely belong to this species, and indeed is a doubtful member of 
Ebenacez. 
3. MABA Forst.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 664. 
1. M. Mualala Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. in Trans. 
Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. p. 111 (1873), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 
iii. p. 515; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 213 (1884). 
Ebenus Mualata O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 408 (1891). 
Loanpa.—A tree, tall enough in the interior, but in the coast 
region scarcely more than a small one or rather a much-branched 
shrub of 3 to 6 ft., hardly ever flowering ; leaves coriaceous, deep 
black-green, glossy, evergreen. In the thickets, the remnant of the 
ancient forests, near Imbondeiro dos Lobos, very rare, June 1858; 
also near Quicuxe, 7 Feb. 1859; young shoots of a tree formerly cut 
down or burnt ; without either fl. or fr. No. 2542. 
GoLunco ALTO.—A beautiful tree with the habit of a laurel ; trunk 
strictly erect, 15 to 30 ft. high and more; leaves evergreen, deep- 
green, remarkably glossy ; fruit black-purple, sparingly juicy, one- 
seeded ; seed spherical ; calyx trifid. Near Trombeta, without either 
fl. or fr. March 1855; in the denser forests near Trombeta, Sange, and 
N-delle ; ripe fr. March 1856. The timber is very hard, valuable, and 
usually but not always dusky-black in the centre. No. 2539. An 
evergreen tree of 20 to 35 ft. in height, with valuable wood. In 
forests between Calélo and Trombeta ; without either fl. or fr. Feb. 
1856. No. 2541. A beautiful tree, 25 ft. high, with deep glossy green 
leaves. In the dense forests of Serra de Alto Queta, without either fl. 
or fr. August 1856. No. 2540. 
The native name of this tree is ‘‘Mualala” both in Loanda and 
Golungo Alto. No. 2539 was occasionally called also “ Dendo,” the 
name of Diospyros Dendo. In order to convince himself as to the 
native name, Welwitsch requested the chief Monc&o to send him a 
Mualila from Trombeta, and received exactly the same species. 
According to a ms. note of Welwitsch, the wood of Mualiala, called 
also ‘“ Tacula escura” (dark Tacula) is good for making flutes and 
other such musical instruments. 
2. M. buxifolia Pers, Syn. Pl. ii. p. 606 (1807); Hiern, L.c. 
Ebenus buxifolia O, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 408 (1891). 
Var. Ebenus Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeylan. p. 183 (1860). 
AmBrIz.—A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, with the habit of the 
family; branches rather erect ; branchlets crowded, slender, sub- 
pubescent with thin hairs ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, easily deciduous 
at the time of the flowering, undulate on the margin ; flowers dicecious, 
white or whitish, rather rigid. In the male plant peduncles 3-flowered, 
rather shorter than the petioles ; flowers when open somewhat nodding ; 
