700 LXXXIV. LOGANIACES, | Mostwea 
2. M. angolana. 
Coinochlamys angolana 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. xiv. p. 322, 
t. 182, f. 1 (1876), and xvi. p. 139 (1878). 
Punco AnpoNGo.—An erect, very slender, virgately branched shrub, 
3 to 4 ft. high, with membranous leaves, tubular, campanulate, milk- 
white flowers, and compressed didymous fruits. In dense shrubberies 
along the streams of the presidium, near Catete ; fl. Jan., fr. May 1857; 
also at Cabondo, sporadic ; fl. Nov. 1856 and Feb. 1857. No. 4760. 
The following No. belongs possibly to a third species of MJostuea ; 
the leaves however are not strictly opposite but sub-opposite, and 
the stipular scales are sufficiently different from those usual in 
this genus ; in other respects the specimen suggests a Dichapetalum. 
GoLtuNnGo ALTO.—A shrub, with the habit of a small tree, 5 to 8 ft. 
in height ; the head spreading, widely frondose ; ramification slender. 
In the secondary thickets of Alto Queta, above Querengue ; without 
either fl. or fr. Jan. 1856. No. 4761. 
2. NUXIA Lam.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 792. 
1. N. dentata R. Br. in Salt, Abyss., App., p. 63, name only 
(1814); Benth. & Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 435 (1846). 
Lachnopylis oppositifolia Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. iii., 
n. 1714 (U. 7. 1844), and in Flora xxvi. p. 77 (7 Feb. 1843). 
N. oppositifolia Benth, & Alph. DC., Lc. 
MossamepeEs.— An arborescent shrub of 6 to 8 ft., or rarely a small 
tree of 10 ft. in the interior of the district where it ornaments the 
elevated rocks, much branched from the base, with the habit of a 
Cordia; the, fresh branchlets, younger leaves and flowers viscid ; 
inflorescence bracteate ; flowers tetramerous, from whitish to yellowish ; 
the calyx-lobes equal ; corolla regular, sordid-violet in colour at the 
base ; stamens 4, exserted, equal ; style far exserted ; stigma truncate. 
In sandy thickets along the banks of the rivers Bero and Maiombe, 
very plentiful ; fl. July, Sept.,and Oct. 1859 and June 1860. No. 5766. 
A shrub, 6 ft. high, with the habit of Huclea; branchlets and in- 
florescence viscid ; young leaves very viscid. In sandy places near 
Cavalheiros, sporadic ; fl.-bud July 1859. No. 5767. 
2. N. angolensis Gilg in Notizbl. Bot. Berlin, No. 2, p. 74 
(5 June 1895). Premna sp., Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 240 (1884). 
GoLunGo ALTO.—A tree, 20 to 35 ft. high; trunk 1 to 1} ft. in 
diameter ; wood hard, whitish, sufficiently strong ; branches divaricate ; 
bark cleft, separating with the greatest ease ; branchlets finely angular ; 
leaves opposite or in most cases ternate, rather thick but neither fleshy 
nor coriaceous, glossy above, turning pale beneath ; flowers corymbose, 
whitish, sweetly fragrant ; calyx-tube 4- or rarely 3-toothed, very rarely 
only bifid and opening with two obtuse concave teeth ; corolla tubular, 
white ; the limb 4-cleft ; the lobes valvate in estivation, reflected in 
the open flower, the throat very shaggy ; anthers whitish, reniform, 
exserted ; style far exserted, white, a little curved; stigmas red, 
truncate. On the drier slopes of the mountains of Alto Queta and of 
Quilombo, not uncommon ; fl.-bud 27 May 1855 ; at Undelle, fl. 10 June 
1855. Native name “ Mussalengue.” Nos. 5670, 6689. At Catomba 
by the river Luinha ; fr. July 1856. No. 5660. In fl.-bud. No. 5624. 
