llijmenocardia] c.w. ELrnonBiACE.E. 967 



Cuango, occasional : female H. Dec. 1855, fr. June IKftO. No. 410. 

 Alto Queta ; fl. and fr. Feb.. May and June 18:.5. No. 410/'. 



CA/,r.N<;<>. — A much-branched tree IJ ft. high, with a dense head. 

 In wooded rocky places on the right bank of the river Luinha, at an 

 elevation of about 180ii feet ; ripe fr. June 185r>. No. 411. 



In Golungo Alto the native name is '• Gusuzu " (used also for 

 C'oiiihr' turn ilijit, run) AVelw.) ; the Cabinda name is " Sanha." 



14. THECACORIS Adr. Juss.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen PI. iii. p. 280. 

 1. T. Trichogyne Miiell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii, p. 328 (18G4), 



and in DC. Pnulr. xv. 2, p. 246 (18GG). 



PrMio Am'om:<>. — A small, sparingly and patently branched tree, 

 10 to 15 ft. high ; head lax ; Ijranches and branchlets slender, some- 

 what flexuous : leaves coriaceous, somewhat shining : flowers greenish, 

 the male ones like tho.se of Aiit'><h.<ii((t. In .small woods at the rivulet 

 Tangue near the pra;sidium, without fl. or f r. Dec. 185G ; also in the 

 wooded parts of Barranco de Pedra Songue in the prajsidium, sparingly ; 

 male fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 415. 



15. MICRODESMIS Planch. ; Benth. ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 287. 

 1. M. puberula 1 [ook. f. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 514. t. 2G (1849) ; 



Muell. arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1041 (18G6). 



Gi>i.uN(ii> Ai.To. — An evergreen tree. 15 to 20 ft. high, with a broad 

 leafy head, twisted branches, pendulous branchlets, and baccate fruit ; 

 unripe berries exactly spherical, green, borne on a pentaphyllous calyx, 

 apiculate with the remains of the styles, trispermous. In the shady 

 forests of the Alto Queta mountains at the base of the Serra, from 

 Camilungo to Sange, sporadic ; young fr. June 18.')5. No. 356. A 

 small tree, with twisted branches, drooping or pendulous branchlets 

 and pentamerous orange-red flowers. In the very dense Alto Queta 

 forests, rather rare : male fl. beginning of June 1855. No. 355A. A 

 small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high ; head widely spreading : trunk branching 

 at the height of 4 to 5 ft. ; branches divaricate, at length quite patent, 

 with drooping branchlets and virgate twigs : leaves evergreen, glabrous 

 except very sparse hairs, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, scarcely pellucid- 

 punctate, deep green and glossy above, pallid and remarkably glossy 

 beneath : flowers dioecious, axillary ; peduncles unequal ; calyx of the 

 female flowers subcampanulate, 5-cleft, with obtuse ciliate segments ; 

 petals 5, obliquely obovate, imbricate in the bud, rotately patent in 

 the flower, bright scarlet or whitish-red, white-tomentellous outside, 

 ciliate on the margin, hypogynous ; ovary central, obovoid, subsessilo, 

 somewhat flat at the top, crowned with 6 penicillate stigmas which 

 radiate from the centre towards the circumference : half-ripe capsule 

 green, subglobose, more or less conspicuously trisulcate outside or 

 tricoccous, trilocular : the cells monospermous. In the more elevated 

 dense primitive forests of mount Cungulungulo in Sobato Cabanga 

 Cacalungo and in the Alto Queta mountains, sporadic ; female fl. and 

 young fr. beginning of Nov. and 4 Dec. 1855, and in Feb. and March 

 185G. No. 355. 



The following No. appears to be an undescribed species of 

 Microdesmis : — 



A dioecious tree ; trunk branchedly spiny ; leaves oval, shortly 

 and obtusely subacuminate at the apex, nearly rounded unequal 

 and inconspicuously 3- to 5-nerved at the base, thinly coriaceous, 



