MimUSOps] LXXVIII. SAPOTACEiE. 6i5 



In the more elevated primitive forests among the mountains of the 

 central Queta, sporadic; 11. -bud, March to the end of July 1850. 

 No. 4814. A tree, '60 ft. high ; trunk about a foot in diameter near 

 the base ; berry acuminate ; the acumen J in. long, formed by the 

 hardened persistent style, at length reduced or deciduous. Only one 

 fruiting specimen found at the beginning of August 1856 on a tree 

 covered with flower-buds. No. 4816. 



This tree is, perhaps, that with the habit of a laurel, mentioned by 

 Welwitsch, Synopse Explic, p. 14, n. 33, as having strong heavy and 

 durable wood used by the negroes for the building of their huts, and 

 as growing in the elevated forests in the Sobato de Quilombo-Quiaca- 

 tubia and neighbourhood, where it is called '' Cafequesu de Monte " 

 and also " Quisuuhunga." Compare Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 211 (1884). 



4. M. frondosa Hiern, sp. nov. 



A very elegant and useful tree, 15 to 60 ft. higli, beautifully 

 frondose ; wood whitish, hard, durable ; branchlets dark -ashy, 

 nearly glabrous, somewhat angular and sulcate-striate, leafy 

 thi'oughout ; leaves alternate, exstipulate, obovate-oblong, 

 I'ounded emax-ginate or obtusely cuspidate at the apex, more or 

 less wedge-shaped at the base, nearly glabrous or obsoletely 

 strigulose-silky, entire and narrowly revolute on the margin, 

 coriaceous, shining, deep green with narrowly depressed midrib 

 above, paler or silvery and with prominent midrib beneath, 4 to 

 14 in. long by I'i to 5 in. broad; lateral veins numerous, slender, 

 not conspicuous, widely spreading ; petiole }j to 1^- in. long, strong, 

 channelled above ; flowers hermaphrodite, clustered, many 

 together, axillary, l^ to f in. long, on nearly as long obsoletely 

 puberulous-strigulose pedicels, ebracteolate, hexamerous, violet- 

 coloured ; calyx-lobes 6, densely clothed on the back with short 

 thick whitish deciduous hairs, biseriate, glabi'ous inside, ovate or 

 deltoid, reflected at the time of the open flower ; corolla glabrous ; 

 tube rather short; lobes 18, the outer 12 of them ovate or 

 lanceolate, reflected ; the inner 6 obovate or oblanceolate ; 

 stamens 6, glabrous, exserted ; filaments tapering, about y^ in. 

 long ; anthers about -^ in. long ; staminodes 6, acute, cleft : 

 ovary conical, strigulose vdth dense short thick deciduous pale- 

 tawny hairs ; style glabrous, straight, columnar, exserted ; fruit 

 drupaceous ovoid, subglabrate, ;!t in. long, }, in. thick, tipped with 

 the persistent style or its remains; seeds 3 or 4, ovoid-oblong, 

 glossy, i in. long, ^ in. broad, ^ in. thick. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the forests of Alto Queta, where it forms one 

 of their chief component parts and decks the tops of the mountains, 

 plentiful, flowering in April and again in October ; fl. end of April 

 185.'). Nos. 4813 and 4813/' ; fr. March 1855. CohL. Cakp. GDT. In 

 elevated primitive forests amoug the mountains of Alto Queta ; fl.-bud 

 28 Feb. 1855. No. 6719. Fr. and seeds June 185(3. Coll. Cakp. 098. 



This tree is called by the natives " Cafequesu " or '' Cafuquesu," and 

 is mentioned by Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 15, n. 38, who states 

 that it somewhat resembles a laurel in appearance, that its trunk 

 attains 2 to 2h ft. in diameter, and that its timber is well adapted for 

 hut-building and joinery. It grows in the vallej's of mountains com 

 posed of mica-schist, in Golungo Alto, Cazeugo, and in the countr 



