702 LXXXIV. LOGANIACES. [Anthocleista 
The following No., perhaps, belongs to this genus :— 
CazENGo.—A beautiful shrub of 5 to 7 ft. (perhaps a young tree), 
glaucescent throughout; stem somewhat winged or two-edged ; sap 
viscid, not milky ; leaves coriaceous, much paler beneath ; petioles 
connate at the dilated base in a truncate cupuliform interpetiolar 
sheath. In the more elevated primeval forests of Serra de Muxaula ; 
only a few specimens seen, without either fl. or fr., June 1855. No. 4063. 
5. STRYCHNOS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 797, 
1. S. spinosa Lam. Tabl. Encyel. ii. p. 38 (1793). 
Brehmia spinosa Harv. ex DC. Prodr. ix. p. 18 (1845). 
Loanpa.—A small tree, 5 to 8 ft. high ; trunk 4 in. in diameter ; 
branches corky; leaves submembranous; flowers greenish; fruit 
edible, like an orange in shape surface and bright colour, 2 to 3 in. in 
diameter. In bushy hilly places, chiefly in thin groves of Adansonia, 
between Alto das Cruzes and Quicuxe ; fl. from middle of April to 
middle of May. The young shoots, which after the October rains 
quickly spring up from the burnt root-stocks, have much smaller and 
rigidly coriaceous leaves. Negro name “ Maboca.”’ Nos. 4763, 6019. 
Museque de Senhor Schut ; without either fl. or fr. March and April 
1854. No. 4764. An erect shrublet, 1 to 3 ft. high ; stems spiny, the 
spines decurved ; branches patent ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, shining. In 
sandy places, especially on the public roads, plentiful ; between Alto 
das Cruzes and Quicuxe ; without either fl, or fr. Nov. and Dec. 1853. 
Perhaps the young shoots of a full-sized shrub or of a tree. No. 4767, 
In hilly bushy places near Loanda; fr. May 1854 and June 1858. 
Coin. Carp. 115. A small tree, 6 to 8 ft. high ; trunk and branches 
from corky to several-winged ; leaves deciduous; fruit edible. In 
hilly mountainous thickets near Loanda; fr. Couu, Carp. 747, 
Gotunco AxLTo.—A shrub, a foot high, shaped like a little tree ; 
branches patent; spines axillary, hard; leaves very bright green, rather 
fleshy-coriaceous. Along roads between Trombeta and Cambondo ; 
without fl. Sept. 1854. During four years never seen to flower. No.4770. 
A straight, subglaucous-green shrublet, 15 ft. high; leaves rather 
fleshy. By the Ambaca road between Sange and Camilungo ; without 
fl. Dec, 1854. No. 4771. In secondary thickets by the king’s highway 
near Cabondo ; without fl. June 1856. No. 4772. 
AmBaACA.—A densely branched, very spiny shrublet of 1 to 2 ft., 
probably the fresh growth from the stock of a burnt or mutilated tree. 
In neglected highways between Izanga and N-gombe, plentiful ; without 
fl. Oct. 1856. No. 4773. 
Those specimens which are without flowers are referred here with 
some doubt. 
2. S. Volkensii Gilg in Notizbl. Bot. Berlin, No. 2, p. 76 
(5 June 1895). 
GoL_unGo ALro and Cazenco,—A tree, 8 to 12 ft. high; trunk 
usually 24 to 3 but occasionally 4 to 6 in. in diameter ; branches spiny ; 
leaves opposite, sub-coriaceous ; flowers greenish ; fruit like an orange 
in colour size and shape, edible; pulp acidulous-sweet. In thickets 
and thin forests from Cambondo to the Luinha and Trombeta, tolerably 
plentiful; also near Dalatanda in the Cazengo district; fl. in the 
elevated parts of the Queta mountains, Nov. 1855. Native name 
““Maboca.” No. 4768. <A tree of 10 to 15 ft.; trunk 4 to 6 in. in 
diameter ; branches diffuse ; flowers greenish, very rapidly devoured by 
