652 LXXIX. EBENACEZ, [ Diospyros 
Bumpo and HuiiLa.—A bush, perhaps a young tree. In the more 
open forests from the base of Serra da Xella, above Bruco to 
Mumpulla ; fi.-bud and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2530. 
This plant is mentioned by Welwitsch in Apont. p. 552 under n. 108, 
and is probably the Diospyros spoken of in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
pp. 287, 300 (1866), as a constituent of forest in Ambriz, etc., and 
as occurring by the copal-field near Mongélo in the forest composed 
chiefly of Cynometra laxiflora Benth. The fungus n. 208, Acidium 
Diospyri A. L. Sm., grew on the leaves of this species near Trombeta. 
2. D. platyphylla Welw.ex Hiern Monogr. Eben.in Trans. Cambr, 
Phil. Soe. xii. p, 266 (1873), and in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. p. 519. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A tree of moderate size ; branches lax, tortuous, 
leafy at the apex ; fruit said to be edible. In the more open sandy 
Panda forests from Calunda to Condo; scarcely in good fl. March 
1857. Local name ‘“ Musolveira,” the same as that of D. mespiliformis 
Hochst. No. 2531. A shrub, 13 to 2 ft. high; perhaps the upgrowth 
from an old tree ; rootstock large, very hard; stems numerous, erect, 
compressed-angular ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, shining, with raised 
veinlets beneath ; fruit solitary, axillary, hirsute, apparently baccate, 
received into the 4- or 5-cleft calyx, apiculate at the apex with the 
remains of the style. In the sandy Panda forests between Zamba and 
Cazella, sporadic ; young fr. 18 Oct. 1856. Apparently this species. 
No. 1234. An undershrub or shrublet, 13 ft. high, rigid. In the sandy 
forests between Cazella and the presidium, rather rare ; after the fall 
of the fl, Nov. 1856. Perhaps this species. No. 1242. 
The fungus n. 211 grew on this species between Calunda and Condo. 
3. D. Loureiriana G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 39 (1837); Hiern 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 522 ; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 214 (1884). 
Var. heterotricha Welw. ex Hiern in Journ. Bot. xiii. p. 355 
(1875), and in Oliv. Le., p. 523. 
GoLtunco Aro, AMBACA, ETC.—An erect shrub, 2 to 8 ft. high ; 
stems several ; branches patent ; branchlets and young leaves clothed 
with hairs of two kinds ; leaves membranous, usually flaccid, very 
readily falling off in the drying ; flowers dicecious or at least poly- 
gamous ; calyx quadrangular at the base, 4-cleft from the middle 
upwards, valvate in flower, green; corolla milk-white, perigynous, 
gamopetalous, deeply 4-lobed, the lobes contorted in estivation ; 
stamens 8, adnate to the base of the corolla, densely bearded with 
rather rigid hairs ; ovary spherical, crowned with 4 styles falling 
short of the corolla ; fruit 8-seeded, said to be edible. In bushy places 
and at the outskirts of forests throughout this and neighbouring 
districts, especially in wooded mountainous places, and frequently 
alongside high roads, fl. from Sept. to May 1854 to 1856 ; among the 
Queta mountains, 28 Feb. 1855; in the shady woods of Sobato de 
Mussengue, March 1855 ; in hilly thickets on a red muddy soil, from 
Izanga towards N-gombe (in Ambaca), in company with Bauhinia 
cissoides Welw. (herb. No. 552 ; ante p. 295) and Smilax Kraussiana 
Meisn. (Welw. herb. No. 3860), fl. 16 and 17 Oct. 1856. No. 2535. 
Branches erect-spreading ; leaves deciduous; flowers polygamous ; 
corolla deeply 4-partite, white ; style bipartite at the apex. In the 
more open woods of Sobato de Bumba near Bumba, fl. Sept. 1855 ; 
in shady forests among the Queta mountains, fl. 24 Sept. 1856. A 
narrow-leaved spring form ; also at the cataracts of the Delamboa, 
fr. May 1855, No. 2535d. 
