642 Lxxviii. SAPOTACE.E. \Chrysoj>hyllv.m 



line a little within the margin ; petiole ^ to f in. long, robust, 

 pubernlons, sulcate when dry ; stipules lanceolate, scarcely acute,, 

 puberulous, deciduous ; flowers whitish, \ in. long, densely 

 clustered on the branchlets below the leaves ; peduncles i to 1 in. 

 long, strigulose-silky and glandular, pallid ; calyx i in. long, 

 tin^binate-campanulate, deeply 5- or 4-lobed, pallid-hairy outside, 

 glabrous inside ; segments imbricate, ovate, obtuse ; glabrous or 

 nearly so, deeply 5-lobed ; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla- 

 segments near their bases, opposite, glabrous, exserted ; filaments 

 yV in. long ; anthers about as long ; ovary hairy ; style glabrous, 

 columnar, scarcely equalling the filaments, undivided ; fruit edil)le, 

 in shape like a cherry, about 4 in. long, | in. thick, tomentellous 

 (when rather young), apiculate with the persistent style or its 

 remains. 



PuNGO AxDOXGO. — In dense primitive forests along the banks of 

 the river Mangue, sparingly ; without either fl. or fr. March 1857. 

 An ornament to the forests. No. 4827- 



Bumbo.— In the forests of the district ; late fl. and early fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4828. In shady places in Serra de Xella ; a small tree in fr. Oct. 

 1859. No. 4829. 



This species occurred also in the district of Huilla between the 

 town and Humpata, 22 Oct. 1859 ; it is nearly related to C. J/so/o 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, p. 306, t. .37 (1895), but differs in its stipules, 

 length of petiole, etc. ; it is also allied to C. magaUsmontanum Sond. 

 The native name is " Mutambote," and on its mossy bark grew 

 Hepatic n. 251 and Lichen n. 424. 



6. C. Disaco Hiern, sp. n. 



A large tree, with m_uch milky juice and the genei"al habit of 

 a laurel, even the fruit resembling that of the .same genus; 

 branches glabrate, dark-ashy, rather rough ; branchlets leafy, 

 somewhat furrowed, sparingly hairy at the tips, covered with a 

 cinnamon-coloui-ed bark ; leaves alternate, crowded especially 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, exstipulate, obovate oblanceo- 

 late or elliptical, rounded or obtusely narrowed at the apes, more 

 or less wedge-shaped to or towards the base, glabrous, of an opaque 

 green colour, a little glossy above, very pallid beneath, 3 to 12 in. 

 long by 1 to 4^ in. broad ; midrib yellowish, strongly raised be- 

 neath and thickening towards the base ; lateral veins numerous 

 (18 to 20 on each side of the midrib), clearly marked but rather 

 slender beneath, depressed above ; reticulation inconspicuous, de- 

 pressed on both faces in the dry state ; margin narrowly re volute, 

 entire or very nearly so ; petiole ^ to ^ in. long, puberulous or 

 glabrate ; flowers not seen ; fruit drupaceous, ellipsoidal (when 

 dry), |- in. long, f in. broad, 'i in. thick, rather shining, glabrate 

 except the apiculate tip, with the persistent adpressed puberulous 

 hard rather woody calyx at the base, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded ; fruiting 

 peduncles puberulous, hard, lateral on the branchlets below the 

 leaves, ^ to ^ in. long, in the approximated axils of fallen leaves, 

 solitary or a few together in each such axil, ascending or spread- 

 ing ; fruiting calyx about ^ in. in diameter, shortly 5-lobed, the 

 lobes rounded, glabrous within ; seed (when dry) ellipsoidal,. 



