Diospyros| LXXIX, EBENACES, 653 
The natives call this plant “Dendo ofele,”’ or “ Dendo cafeli,” that 
is, small Dendo. 
4. D. Dendo Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 195, t. x (1873), 
and in Oliv., Zc. ; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 214 (1884). 
Gotunco ALTo.—An evergreen tree, 25 to 35 ft. high ; wood very 
hard, quite black in the centre ; leaves shining, green ; berries black- 
purple. Among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, Dembos, etc., 
plentiful, in dense primitive forests which this plant occasionally 
forms together with Anonaces (cf. Unona lucidula Oliv. ; Welw. 
herb. Nos. 758, 767) and Corynanthe paniculata Welw. herb. No. 1508 ; 
fl. Dec. to Feb., fr. March to May 1854 to 1856. No. 2537. In 
the dense most elevated forests of Cungulungulo ; without either 
fl. or fr. Feb. 1855. Apparently a broad-leaved form of this species. 
No. 2538. The Dendo grande of the Mangue forest in Queta ; fr. 
April 1856. Cort. Carp. 710. 
This tree, which is called “ Dendo” or “ N-Dendo” by the natives 
in Golungo Alto, is mentioned by Welwitsch, Apont. p. 552 under 
n. 108, as a Diospyros which furnishes very beautiful and durable 
timber for building purposes. He also describes it, Synopse Explic. 
p- 10, n. 18, as follows :—A tree of 25 to 40 ft. in height and 1 to 2 ft. 
in diameter, growing in the densest and most shady virgin forests ; 
the wood is one of the strongest, densest, compact, and most durable 
in the forests of Angola ; it is white in the outer part, with black bars 
in the middle of the trunk. 
It is the Dendo grande, or great Dendo, as contrasted with the 
Dendo ofele, or small Dendo, which is D. Lowreiriana G. Don, B. hetero- 
tricha. The name Dendo is also occasionally used for Maba Mualala 
Welw. 
5. D. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A shrub or tree; branches dusky, glabrate, terete ; branchlets 
alternate, slender, dusky-ashy, making an angle of about 45° with 
the branches, ascending, minutely puberulous at the extremities ; 
leaves alternate, oval or oblong, obtusely sub-acuminate at the 
apex, more or less obtusely narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, 
shining dark green and glabrous or very nearly so above, rather 
paler green subglabrate and microscopically scaly beneath, 1? 
to 32 in. long by 2 to 14 in. broad; midrib narrowly depressed 
above, in relief beneath; lateral veins and net-veins inconspicuous ; 
margin entire, rather undulate ; petiole } to } in. long, glabrate or 
puberulous ; male flowers fasciculate a few together, clustered in 
very abbreviated axillary puberulous cymes, rather fleshy, milk- 
white, very readily falling off, glabrous ; calyx } in. in diameter, 
4-cleft, the lobes broadly deltoid, obtuse ; corolla deeply 4- or rarely 
5-lobed, 3 in. long, the segments oval-ovate, obtuse; stamens 
about 16, glabrous, inserted on the corolla near its base or near 
the top of its very short tube; anthers ovate-lanceolate, about 
i; in. long or rather less, longer than the rather slender filaments ; 
ovary rudimentary, glabrous, obtuse. 
Loanpa.—At Alto das Cruzes, Feb. 1854. No. 4840. In bushy 
places near Museque do Senhor Schut, rather rare ; male fl. 17 May 
1854. No. 4841. 
This is nearly related to D. Dendo Welw., but the corolla is much 
shorter and the foliage more coriaceous. 
