1020 cxvii. MORACE.E. [Bosqioeia 



what soft resin ; leaves evergreen, rigidly coriaceous, deep green and 

 glossy above, from yellow to pale green beneath ; midrib yellow ; 

 spaces between the lateral veins pellucidly venulose ; flower-heads 

 solitary, shortly stalked, axillary, enclosed in the bud within the 

 bract-like receptacle : stalk semi-cylindrical ; receptacle membranous- 

 paleaceous, variously cleft on the margin ; floAvers monoecious, 

 apetalous ; male flowers 5 to 7, arranged around the female flower, 

 their perianths membranous-paleaceous ; filaments straight in tiestiva- 

 tion, more or less sub-cohering at the base, white, cylindrical-filiform ; 

 anthers oblong, dorsifixed, flesh-coloured-violet or oftener bright deep 

 blue, bilocular ; the cells longitudinally dehiscing, a little diverging 

 below, surmounted at the apex by the subulate apiculus of the con- 

 nective ; female flower placed in the centre of the receptacle or a little 

 excentric, its perianth short tubular and acutely 5-cleft at the apex ; 

 ovary immersed in the receptacle, unilocular ; ovule solitary, pendulous 

 from the apex of the cell ; style firm, cylindrical, deeply bifurcate at 

 the apex, its branches flattened linear-lanceolate variously twisted 

 rosy-velvety and stigmatose on the inner face ; fruit drupaceous, golden 

 yellow, a little larger than or double the size of the hips of Rrmi 

 cayiinu L., eaten by the negroes but not much praised ; drupe formed 

 from the baccate receptacle ; seed pendulous ; albumen wanting ; 

 cotyledons comparatively large. The fruit is described in Welwitsch's 

 notes also as like a plum and yellowish red or light yellow-rosy. In 

 primitive forests at the base of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic, 

 flowering nearly throughout the year, fruiting principally in June ; 

 fl. and fr. May to July 1850. Xo. 456- A small tree ; branches and 

 branchlets very patent, almost pendulous, bright purple. In wooded 

 places at the banks of the river Cuango near Sange ■, without fl. or fr. 

 Feb. 1855. Foliage rather larger and thinner than in the last no. 

 No. 457. In dense primitive forests at the great cataract near Sange ; 

 fl.-bud Aug. 1855. Xo. 458- 



The native name of No. 45G is " Munguenga ih, muxito " or 

 " Munguengo ia muchito," which means the Munguenga of the woods; 

 this name according to Ficalho, I.e., is equally applied to SjH)?idias, 

 which has a fruit similar in taste : »S. }[oinhhi L. is called " Muguenga " 

 or " Mugueugue." See ante, pp. 175, 170. The aspect of this BoHqueia 

 is much like that of Mesogrjne insignif^ Engl. Eot. Jahrb. xx. p. 148. t. 5, 

 fig. M-V (1894) as judged from the plate quoted. The Orchid 

 Anr/rd'cum Guyonianum Reichenb. impost, ii. p. 9, grew on "Munguenga 

 ia muxito " ; also the Fungus (?) n. 34, and Fungus n. 79, and probably 

 lichen n. 362. 



6. IPO Eumph. ex Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 566 (1807). 



Antiaris Leschen, in Ann. Mtis. Par. xvi. p. 478 (1810); Bentli. 

 & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 371. 



1. I. toxicaria Pers., I.e. 



Antiaris toxicaria Leschen., I.e., p. 478, t. 22 ; Hook. Camp. 

 Bot. Mag. i. p. 310. t. 17 (1836); Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 1, 

 pp. 85, 86, fig. 64 (1888). A. innoxia Blume, Rumphia i. p. 172, 

 t. 54 (1835). A. duhia Spanoghe in Hook., I.e. 



Arbor toxicaria macassariensis, Thunb. & ^jmel. Dissert. 

 (21 May, 1788), incorrectly referred to by Pers., I.e., at the end 

 of the volume. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A handsome tree, with the aspect of a huge 

 Alnus, 33 to 60 ft. high, sometimes taller and reaching 3 to 3| ft. in 



