972 cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. [Eicinodenclron 



white and even in grain like that of a Tilia and used for the same 

 purposes ; bark of the branches and upper part of the trunk bright 

 herbaceous-green, smooth, deeply fuiTowed, thin, patent, crowded 

 at the top of the trunk ; leaves palmate ; leaflets 5 to 7, peltately 

 arranged ; petiole very long, bi-stipulate at the base ; stipules lateral, 

 large, uniform, crest-like, digitately laciniate, or deeply dentate- 

 fimbriate on the margin, spreading horizontally, semi-amplexicaul ; 

 flowers dioecious, lightly paniculate, the whole inflorescence from 

 dusky to yellowish tomentose ; corolla of the male flowers yellowish ; 

 glands among the stamens 5, large. Hap thin, and of nearly every 

 part greenish-watery and viscid ; at length when dry forming a brown 

 resin. In the elevated primitive forests of Serra de Alto Queta, in 

 the Sobatos of Bumba and Banga Aquitamba and near Banza de 

 Bumba, sporadic : without fl. June 1855 ; with fl. 22 Oct. 1855. 

 No. 443. 



CxVZKNCio. — A tree, 20 to 40 ft. high ; head widely spreading ; wood 

 whitish, like that of TUia ; leaves 5- to 7-cleft ; flowers dicBcious. By 

 a road ; fr. June 1855. Coll. Cakp. 931. 



Negro name " Munguella." 



The following No. perhaps belongs here; the negroes of the 

 distx-ict also call it " Munguella " : — 



Cazengo. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high ; trunk bare for a long distance 

 from below, loosely branched at the apex ; branches patent-erect, 

 elongated, leafless at the base, furnished towards the apex with long- 

 stalked leaves ; leaflets (in one case) 7, elliptical-oblong, cuspidate at 

 the apex, wedgeshaped to the sessile base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 

 deep green and somewhat glossy above, paler beneath, entire or with 

 a few mostly obsolete glandlike teeth on the margin, peltately placed 

 on the petioles, the largest nearly a foot long by 3i in. broad ; petioles 

 ranging up to 2^ ft. long, deeply furrowed, glabrous. In the more 

 elevated dense primitive forests of Serra de Muxaula ; without fl. or 

 fr. June 1855. No. 444. 



19. MANNIOPHYTON Muell. arg. ; Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 297. 



Anisochlmni/sWelw. ex Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii.p. 332(1864). 



1. M. fulvum Mviell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., and in DC. Prodr, 

 XV. 2, p. 720 (1866). 



Anisochlamys2wl)/mo7'2)haWehy. ex INIuell. arg. in Journ. Bot.,^.c. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub climbing among other shrubs, with 

 sarmentose branches, 12 to 20 ft. long, beset with straight rigid 

 horizontally spreading stinging hairs ; sap watery; leaves very variable 

 in shape ; flowers dicecious. Calyx of the male flowers bifid or trifid, 

 the lobes irregular and obsoletely 1- to 2- toothed at the apex ; corolla 

 from whitish to yellowish, cyathiform-campanulate, irregularly den- 

 ticulate at the mouth, inserted at the bottom of the calyx, strictly 

 gamopetalous; stamens more than 12, inserted without order on the 

 thin glandular disk which is hispidulous on the margin, as long as the 

 corolla ; anthers cordate, introrse, bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally, 

 exserted or subexserted, yellowish ; rudiments of the ovary 0. Calyx 

 of the female flower regularly 5-toothed, almost 5-lobed, the teeth 

 acute ; petals 5, obovate, yellow-greenish, inserted at the outer base 

 of the glandular thin disk, larger and longer than the calyx, paten t 

 at the time of the flowering ; ovary sessile on the disk, hispid ; styles 

 arching-patent, stigmatose at the apex. In the dense primitive forests 



