Ilasskarlia] cxv. eupiiorbiace.e. 975 



primitive mountainous forest; young fr. end of Dec. 18G0. Native 

 name " Brauco ' or " Pau branco " (white wood). No. 358. 



21. CLAOXYLON Adr. Jus.s. ; Benth. dsHook. f. Cen. VI iii. p. 309. 



1. C. Welwitschianum ISIufll. arg. in Jouni. But. ii. p. 333 

 (1SG4;, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 77G (18G6). 



GoMXGo Alto. — A slender tree, 10 to 1;') ft. hi<,'h. or rarely 20 ft. ; 

 trunk scarcely 3 in. in diameter ; brandies almost horizontally patent ; 

 branchlets with cartilaginous scales at the base : flowers diojcious, 

 greenish. In the primitive forests of Serra de Alto Quota, sporadic ; 

 fl.-bud beginning of Nov. 1K55, male H. Dec. 1^55 and Jan. I8;j<), 

 unripe and nearly ripe fr. Jan. and Feb. 185(). No. 398. Arillode of 

 the seeds bright scarlet, viscid. Among the Queta mountains, pro- 

 miscuously with male individuals : female fl. Dec. 18r>.'), fr. Feb. 18.')r). 

 No. 398/'. A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high : head widely .si)reading ; branches 

 patent, whitish ; leaves membranous ; fruit geminately dicoccous ; 

 arillode scarlet. On the slopes of rather dense forests towards the river 

 Zenza, on the right bank ; fr. March l.S,')i'). No. 397- 



2. C. angolense Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 333, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 777. 



Prxoo AxDoxco. — A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, with several stems. 

 In rocky rather poor thickets near Luxillo, not plentiful ; female fl. 

 and fr. Feb. 18.')?. No. 399. 



3. C. pauciflorum Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 333, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 778. 



LoAXD.v. — A shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high, much branched from the base ; 

 stems oblique or ascending ; branches whitish bay : leaf-buds and 

 floral bracts cartilaginous, bay-coloured, rounded, concave ; leaves mem- 

 branous, herbaceous-green, drying blackish green like some UrticaceaJ ; 

 flowers dioecious ; male flowers greenish : fruit pendulous on slender 

 pedicels, didymous : endocarp somewhat fleshy, scarlet. In somewhat 

 dry sandy hilly places, in short grass among other shrubs, near ]\Iuseque 

 de S. Flores above Loanda to the south-west ; fl. Feb., fr. April 185-1. 

 No. 400. 



4. C. Trichogyne Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 334, and in 

 DC, Lc, p. 778. 



GoLUXGo Alto. — A virgately branched shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; bark 

 whitish ; stipules cartilaginous. By fences in fields after the burning 

 of the forest, near Sange, rather rare ; fr. June 1855. No. 396. 



5. C. triste Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 334, and in DC, 

 I.e., p. 770. 



Huir.LA. — A shrublet, H to 3 ft. high, branched from the base ; 

 hi'anches erect ; leaves herbaceous-green, somewhat limp, thinly fleshy, 

 2 to 4 together proceeding from a cartilaginous sheath, shortly 

 petiolate ; flowers apparently dioecious : fruit mostly twin, that is, 

 dicoccous, rarely monococcous by the abortion of one of the cocci, 

 as large as a peppercorn ; cocci green, bivalvular, monospenuous : seed 

 perfectly spherical, enclosed in a very bright scarlet arillode. In rocky 

 thickets at an elevation of 5000 ft., near Humpata, rather rare ; fr. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 390. A melancholy shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 erect little trunks. In rocky elevated thickets in Morro de Lopollo ; 

 without fl. or fr. end of Jan. 1800. No. 391. 



