704 LXXXIV. LOGANIACEX. [ Strychnos 
diameter at the base, leaves coriaceous, glossy ; flowers yellowish. 
In shady wooded places by rivulets in Barranco de Songue ; fr. Oct. 
1856 ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 4776. A climbing evergreen shrub, with a 
few short simple hooked tendrils ; fruit baccate, of a pleasant orange 
colour, as big as a cherry, one-seeded, sparingly pulpy ; seed depressed- 
spherical. In shady places by the streams of the presidium ; at the 
river Tangue, in nearly ripe fr. Dec. 1856. No. 4777. A climbing 
shrub. At the river Tangue ; fr. Dec. 1856. Con. Carp. 959. 
The following No. should be compared with this species, and 
perhaps belongs to it :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—An evergreen shrub, with the habit of the 
genus. In thickets near Caghuy ; fl. apparently monstrous under 
the attack of insects ; Dec. 1856. No. 1230. 
5. S. cocculoides Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 98. 
Hvitita.—A small or moderate-sized tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, with 
spiny-hooked branchlets. In mixed forests about Lopollo towards the 
Monino ; in marcescent fl. and young fr. Oct. 1860. A broad-leaved 
form of the Maboca doce. No. 4779. A small tree with a Rhamnoid 
habit ; leaves and branches sometimes excessively sometimes hut little 
shaggy or more or less pubescent. In mixed forests about Lopollo, 
plentiful ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; in very late fl. and ripe fr. Jan. 1860. Called 
‘‘Maboca doce.” No. 4780 and Couu. Carp. 744. A small tree, 
12 to 15 ft. high, much and divaricately branched ; fruit edible. In 
damp forests near Lopollo, not uncommon ; in Humpata abundant ; 
fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. Native name ‘“‘ Maboca,” but it is different 
from the Maboca of Golungo Alto. The specimen consists only of 
seeds and therefore the determination is doubtful. Cou. Carp. 39. 
6. S. pungens Solered. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 2. p. 40 (June 1892), and in Engl. p. 554. 
S. occidentalis Solereder in Engl. & Prantl, l.c. 
Hvuiiia.—A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high; trunk straight, 6 to 12 in. in 
diameter ; leaves rigid, glossy, mucronate, the mucro pungent; fruit 
edible but acidly pungent, and when eaten in quantity deleterious and 
causing diarrhoea. In the Monino forests, in company with species of 
Protea ; ripe fr. Jan. 1860. No. 4778. Flowers whitish ; in the same 
locality ; Nov. 1859. No 4778). A small tree, 10 to 20 ft. high, 
branched a little above the base ; branches rather erect ; leaves rigidly 
coriaceous, pungent-mucronate ; fruit in form and colour like an 
orange ; pulp acidulous, orange in colour, investing the seeds. In 
wooded places near Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. Seeds only, 
apparently belonging to this species. ‘‘Maboca venenosa.” COLL. 
Carp. 40. 
The following two Nos. have the general aspect of this order, 
and the foliage is rather suggestive of the genus Usteria, but the 
absence of both flowers and fruit renders this position quite 
doubtful :-— 
Go.tunco ALtTo.—A very elegant, small tree, 6 to 8 ft. high; 
branches erect-spreading, firm ; leaves thickly and succulently cori- 
aceous, very glossy. In forests and thickets at the river Cuango, but 
never seen to flower; May 1855. No. 6686. Apparently the same 
plant. No. 3253. 
