PhullanUais] cxv. EuriioituiACE-i:. 961 



A tree, not milky ; !May. A tree, 30 ft. \ng\\, with julult leaves ; 

 Quisucula. June ISofi. A tree. 25 to ;50 ft. high or rarely .smaller ; 

 leaves evergreen, coriaceous, glossy, almost lloshy ; in hilly places near 

 the Sange cemetery, sporadic ; adult leaves ia June. A handsome tree, 

 30 to 60 ft. high ; wood white, excellent ; branches patent : branchlets 

 and leaves distichous ; flowers dioecious : in the primitive forests of 

 Quisucula, sporadic ; female H. end of Sept. 1><5.'), male fl. Oct. 1855. 

 A tree, 15 to 30 ft. high ; leaves deciduous, when fully developed 

 Heshy-coriaceous, as well as the branches distichous : sap not milky, 

 watery ; in the same forests near Bango-Aquitamba and also near 

 Sange; H.Oct. lS.'i.">. Native names " Caret('te '' or " Caletete " or 

 "Mutete." No. 340. The lichens nn. in>, 187, 192, 341, 379, and 380 

 grew on the trunks and branches of this tree. 



Prince's I.slanh.— A tree, 25 to :'U ft. high, with the habit almost 

 of a Celtic, at the time of flowering with imjierfectly developed foliage ; 

 branches patent, branchlets numerous ; flowers yellowish greeni.sh. 

 In primitive forests on Pic(j do Papagaio, at an elevation of 20(JO ft. ; 

 fl. Sept. 1853. No. 339. 



In Pungo Andongo the name " Mutete " is used for Pterocarpm 

 erinaceus Poir. ; Welw. herb. no. 18(U ; aute, p. 279. 



According to Welwitsch's ms., '• Caretete," a tall tree with distant 

 leaves, grew in Pungo Andongo, and in the same district another tree, 

 15 to 20 ft. high, with larger fruit, also called " Caretete," grew in 

 small woods in the pr.tsidium. 



7. FLUGGEA Wilkl. ; Benth. ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 27G. 

 1. F. microcarpa Blume, Bijdi-. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 580 (1825). 

 J'hi/Uanthus virosus Koxb. ex Wilkl. Sp. PI. iv. p. 578 (1805). 



X>ilo'phylla obovata Wilkl. Enum. PI. Hort. Bot. Berol. p. 329 

 (1809). P. lucidics Hort. ex Willd. Enum., I.e. Phylanthus 

 angulatus Sclium. k, Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. iv. p. 189 

 (1829). P. diolcus Schum., I.e., p. 190. Securiner/a obovata Muell. 

 arg. in DC. Prodi-, xv. 2, p. 449 (18GG). Aeidoton obovatics 0. 

 Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 592 (1891). 



Lo.VNDA. — A shrublet, 2 to 4 ft. high ; stems numerous, as well as the 

 branches whitish and angular ; leaves herbaceous, pallid-glaucescent 

 beneath, with pellucid veins ; flowers yeUowish in the bud. In dry 

 bushy hiUy places above Forte de Penedo and in A<l<ntsonki plantations 

 near Cacuaco, rather rare ; fl. April 1X54. No. 627. 



BiMiio. — A tall shrub of S to lo ft. in height, perhaps the young 

 state of a small tree ; head lax ; branches and branchlets spreading ; 

 flowers whitish. At the outskirts of primitive forests near Bumbo, 

 close to the base of the mountains of Serra da Xella, among other 

 shrubs ; not yet in good fl. Oct. 1850. No. 337- 



In our specimens the leaves are small, ] to | in. long, and the 

 branchlets are sometimes spinescent at the tip : it is therefore diflicult 

 to distinguish them from /-'. A^/^oy^/y/v/.s Willd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 757 (180G), 

 the type species of the genus, although ]\Iuell. arg., /.<•., quotes No. 337 

 under his S. obacala ; perhaps the two species will require to be 

 united. 



8. CYCLOSTEMON Bhime; Benth. .t Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 279. 

 1. C. euryodes lliern, sp. n. 



A diojcious tree with the habit nearly of Euryn, an upgrowth 

 from a mutilated one when 10 to 12 ft. high having a trunk 



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