Briedelia] cxv. EUPnoRBiACE-E. 955 



PuNGO Andongo.— A small tree, 8 to 9 ft. high : trunk straight, 

 wi{h broad crown at the top ; brandies patent : branchlets ferru- 

 ginous-hirsute ; leaves rather rigid, scarcely coriaceous, hirsute along 

 the veins beneath, not recurved on the margin ; Howera pentainerous, 

 greenish purple. In bushy secondary woods between the presidium 

 and Pedras de Guinga (north-eastern Sobato), sparingly : H. Jan. 

 1857. Xo. 364. A loosely branched tree, 5 to 7 ft. high, with spiny 

 branches. At the outskirts of Mata de Pungo in the pr.isidiuni, only 

 one little tree seen without fl. or fr. l\Iay 1857. Appears to belong 

 here. No. 360. 



7. B. scandens WiUd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 979 {180G). 



CliUia stlpidaris L. Mant. PI. p. 127 (17G7). Chn/tia scanJens 

 Eoxb. PI. Corom. ii. p. 39. t. 173 (1798). B.ret»'sa Adr. Juss. 

 Euphorb. Tent. p. 26, t. 7, f. 22 (1824). H. stlpidaris Blunie, 

 Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 597 (1825) ; Muell. arg. in DC.; I.e., p. 499. 



Hni.L.v. — A shrub of 3 to 4 ft. with numerous stems, probably the 

 upgrowth from the stock of a burnt tree. In hilly bushy places on a 

 mica-schist formation, near ^MunipuUa : tl. and fr. Oct. 1S.')9. No. 363. 

 A small tree or arborescent shrub, G to 9 ft. high, with the halnt of a 

 (rreivid ; branches divaricate ; branchlets and coriaceous leaves sub- 

 distichous ; flowers green-yellowish, with the general appearance of 

 the order or of Rhamnacea^. In sandy thickets near Lopollo and 

 around the great lake of Ivantala, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. and Feb. 

 I8G0 : fr. end of March 1860. No. 362. A small, elegant, evergreen 

 tree ; leaves coriaceous, shining, distichous along the branchlets ; 

 drupes blackish purple, mucous. In thickets near Forte de Huilla ; 

 fr. May 18G0. Coll. Cai;i'. 34. 



See note under B. elegans, p. 953. 



4. CLEISTANTHUSHook.f.; Beuth.ctHook.f.Gen.Pl.iii.p.268. 



1. C. angolensis WeUv. ex Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 339 

 (18G4), and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 5U5 (18GG) 



KaluliahuruiKjJws angolensis 0, Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PI. ii. p. G07 

 (1891). 



PiMio Andoxgo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; head lax ; leaves 

 deciduous at the time of the flower, flowers monoecious, possibly 

 sometimes dioecious, greenish yellow. In the less dense forests 

 between Pungo Andongo and Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857 ; near 

 Luxillo, ripe fr. March 1857. No. 353. A tree of 15 ft. ; male 

 flowers from greenish to yellowish. In small thin forests between 

 Catete and Luxillo ; male fl. Feb. 1857. No. 354 



The male flowers are often more abundant than the female ones. 



2. C. (?) glaucus Hiern, sp. n. 



A very nearly glabrou.s tree, 12 to 40 ft. high ; trunk straight, 

 bare of branches for a long distance below, G to 18 in. in diameter ; 

 liead widely spreading, leafy ; branches subterete, very slightly 

 angular ; back grey and with brown cracks ; branchlets alternate, 

 spreading or erect-patent or ascending, rather slender, obtusely 

 angular, striate, leafy; leaves alternate, oval or broadly ovate, 

 rounded emarginate or obtusely pointed at the apex, unequal and 

 obtusely narrowed or sub-truncate at the ba.se, coriaceous, very 

 deep gi-een above, highly glaucous beneath, very delicately 



