Maba| _LXXIX. EBENACEA, 651 
calyx 3-lobed, hirsute outside, bracteolate at the pedicel, the lobes 
broadly ovate and subacute; corolla trifid, strigose-hirsute outside, 
exceeding the calyx; stamens usually 9, rarely only 3; anthers 
apiculate ; some of the filaments combined at the base, rather shorter 
than the anthers; ovary rudimentary, pilose. In the female plant 
calyx-lobes 3, ovate, shortly acute, hirsute with erect hairs ; corolla 
tubular, twice the length of the calyx, trifid half-way; the lobes 
oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, erect-spreading ; stamens obsolete ; 
ovary ovoid, adpressedly hirsute all over especially at the base, 3-celled ; 
style short, columnar, rather thick, terminating at the apex in 3 
very short papilliform stigmas. In the rocky parts of little forests 
between Ambriz and Quizembo on the right bank of the river Loge, 
not far from the sea, not abundant; fl. (male and female plants) 
middle of Nov. 1853. No. 2527. 
4 DIOSPYROS Dalech., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 665. 
1. D. mespiliformis Hochst. in Pl. Schimp. Abyss, ii. nn. 655, 
1243 (U. 7. 1842); Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr, viii. p. 672 (1844) ; 
Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 518; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
p. 213 (1884). 
AmpBriz.—A tree-like shrub of 6 ft. or a small tree of 12 ft., 
perhaps in primitive forests a full-sized tree; branches patent ; the 
fresh branchlets ferruginous-tomentose ; leaves thinly coriaceous, the 
young ones membranous, very soft and often dusky red, the adult 
ones caducous at the time of the flowering ; calyx-lobes 3 or 4 or 
rarely 5 or 6; stamens 8. In wooded rocky and sandy places near 
Ambriz, on bushy hills between Ambriz and Mossul, and in the more 
open forests between Ambriz and Quizembo ; fl.-bud, very few male 
fl., and ripe fr. middle of Nov, 1853. No. 2528. 
GoLUNGO ALTO, ETC.—A tree of moderate size (15 to 25 or 30 ft.) 
or a handsome tree of 30 to 50 ft in height; trunk nearly straight, 
1 to 2} ft. in diameter ; bark rough, much cracked ; wood very hard, 
heavy, white, well adapted for making screws; branches erect- 
spreading ; twigs virgate ; leaves coriaceous, evergreen or caducous 
at the time of the flowering ; corolla contorted in zstivation ; fruit 
baccate, rather hard, of the size of a small cherry, received at the 
base in the quadrifid calyx, greenish or olive-tawny when quite ripe, 
shining, sparingly pulpy inside, 3- or 4-celled ; the pulp gummy, very 
viscid ; the cells 1-seeded. In forests, especially in those less dense 
and sandy, throughout this district and the neighbouring ones of 
ZENZA DO GOLUNGO, CAZENGO, and AMBACaA; at the banks of the 
river Delamboa in Sobato de Bumbo ; foliage without fl. March 1855 ; 
Trombata, March 1855, fl. 1856, and without fl. Feb. ; at the outskirts 
of the forests of the Mongdélo mountains, near the river Chixi, 
in Zenza do Golungo; fr, Sept..1857. Called by the colonists 
‘¢Silviera ” or ‘‘ Musolveira ” and by the negroes “ Mulende.” No. 2529. 
At Trombeta ; fr. June 1855. Couu. Carp. 706. A leafy shrub of 
5 to 7 ft. (perhaps in the primitive forests a tree); leaves caducous ; 
flowers white-greenish, small; berries black-purple, 7- to 8-seeded, 
borne on a quadrifid calyx ; fr. N-delle, July 1856 and August 1857. 
Cou. Carp. 707 and 708. 
AMBACA.—A_ shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high, branched from the base; 
leaves membranous, deciduous ; fruit orange-yellow, baccate, as large 
as a moderate-sized cherry, 2- to 6-seeded, with a viscid pulp, borne 
on a quadrifid calyx. At Isange ; fr. 10 June 1857. Cony. Carp. 709. 
