Euphorbia] cxv. euphorbiace.k. 947 



LoANDA. — A tree, 15 to 4') ft. high, and more, in tho form of a 

 candelabrum, constituting dense forests in dry, hilly, maritime, and 

 rocky places, but sometimes solitary ; trunk straight, 1 to 2i ft. in 

 diameter ; bark cracked ; branches subverticillate, ascendiiiLj-iirching ; 

 branchlets verticillate ; trunk and branches ?>- to )^-anf,'Ied : branchlets 

 mostly trigonous ; Howers red, very crowded, as well a-s the wliole 

 plant much abounding in milk. I'lentiful : ti. July and Aug. 18.')8. 

 Around Cacuaco, where it grew in company with Lissuchilitu (•(ilojiknui 

 Reichenb. f., it was usually more than .")(» ft. high, with a stem '2A ft. 

 in diameter; beginning of Jan. 18r»4 ; near Mutollo, 2:5 July 1H54 ; 

 Loanda, 17 June 1858. A characteristic tree, producing a very fine 

 effect. No. 641. 



Stakes cut from this tree and planted easily take root and grow 

 quickly ; they are thus used by the negroes for making fences around 

 their dwellings. 



The lichens n. 211, TniuotijItHiH aiigolense Nyl., n. 104, Lrcidea 

 q/iscinokis Nyl., and n. 399 (?) Opcfimphia (jraphidiza Nyl., also n. 189, 

 grew on the old trunks of this tree : see Nylander, Lich. Angol. Welw. 

 pp. 8. 10. 12 (1809) ; lichen nn. 320, 414, 413, 399, 398, 328, and 3.50 

 at Boa Vista. Barlcr'm sdlicifulia S. Moore, Welw. herb. no. 5119, 

 grew in little woods composed of Enpliorhhi, probably this species, 

 about Libongo. 



It is doubtful whether this is the same species as E. Gnnklahruia 

 Tremeau ex Kotschy, AUgem. Ueberbl. Nilliind. p. 13 (1857) in Mitth. 

 Geograph. Gesellsch. Wien., Jahrg. i. Heft ii. p. 1()9 : Kotschy, Umr. 

 Uferl. Weiss. Nil, p. 23 (1858) in Mitth., /.-•., Jahrg. ii. Heft i. p. 92 ; 

 Boiss. in DC, I.e.. p. 84 ; Petherick, Trav. Centr. Afr. i. p. 308 (18G9). 

 It is probably the gigantic EujiJnirbia mentioned by AVelwitsch in 

 Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 328 (1854) as forming woods at Loanda, 

 just as Pi/iu.i si/lvestris does with us, and readily discernible even from 

 shipboard. 



The following Nos. perhaps belong to this species of 

 Wehvitsch : — 



PuNGO ANnoNt;(\ — A little tree 10 to 12 ft. high, or rarely 15 ft. ; 

 trunk straight, subcylindrical, 3 to 4 in. in diameter, hard-woody, 

 spiny-tuberculate ; branches and branchlets spreading-ascending, 3- or 

 rarely 4-winged, glaucous-greenish, leafless. By rocks near IVIangue 

 and Candumba, plentiful ; without tl. March 1857. No. 641^. A 

 tree of 12 to 15 ft., candelabriform, with acutely trigonous ascending 

 branches and branchlets. By schist rocks in wooded places near 

 Mangue on the road leading to Candumba ; without fl. March 1857. 

 No. 637. 



Br.Mi:<i. — A tree, 20 to 40 ft. high ; trunk straight. cyHndrical, 

 much branched towards the apex, with the bark cracked as in Picca ; 

 branches suberect, as well as the branchlets triquetrous and glaucous ; 

 spines purple, venomous or certainly suspected. In the rather dense 

 rocky primitive forests of Serra de Xella ; without fl. June 18G0. 

 Only one specimen. No. 636. 



GoLUNdci Ai.T'i. — Arborescent. At Bango ; fl. only 7 and 8 Sept. 

 1855. Local name *' Quisoma." Cdll. Cakt. 932. 



" Insomma " is the name of an arborescent Ei/jJiorhln, which grew 

 on the banks of the Zenga, and is probably another form of the name 

 " Quisoma." A tree Evjilmrliin^ to which Welwitsch referred by the 

 name of '' Quisoma '' in his diary of (5 Sept. 1M57, occurred at Funda 

 in the district of Icolo e Bengo. It occurred also in the Libongo 

 district in company with A<:ada Welicitsclili Oliv., unk, p. 310. 



