<350 Lxxix. EBENACE.E. [Euclea 



little smaller. In the thia bushy forest of Mata de Monino ; young 

 fr. Feb. 1860. No. 2557- A tree-like shrub, 4 to 8, usually only 

 4 ft. high, with a very dense black-green head and sub-verticellate, 

 twiggy branches. In wooded places with tall bushes along the 

 denser forests from Lopollo towards Jhu, in Mata de Jau, not plentiful ; 

 fl.-bud end of May 1860. No. 2555. 



No. 2556 is vacant, the plant intended for this No. having been 

 included under No. 1258 as given above. No. 2556/^ consists of a leafy 

 shoot, without either fl. or fr., of a small tree or rather an arborescent 

 shrub, 8 ft. high, tomentose almost in every part, which occurred in 

 the BuMP.o district at the base of Chao da Xella in Oct. 1859 ; it can 

 scarcely belong to this species, and indeed is a doubtful member of 

 Ebenaceae. 



3. MABA Forst. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 664. 



1. M. Mualala Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. in Trans. 

 Cambr. Phil. See. xii. p. Ill (1873), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 iii. p. 515 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 213 (1884). 



Ebeyius Mualata 0. Kuntze, Ptev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 408 (1891). 



LoANDA. — A tree, tall enough in the interior, but in the coast 

 region scarcely more than a small one or rather a much-branched 

 shrub of 3 to 6 ft., hardly ever flowering ; leaves coriaceous, deep 

 black-green, glossy, evergreen. In the thickets, the remnant of the 

 ancient forests, near Imbondeiro dos Lobes, very rare, June 1858 ; 

 also near Quicuxe, 7 Feb. 1859 ; young shoots of a tree formerly cut 

 down or burnt ; without either fl. or fr. No. 2542. 



GoLUXGO Alto.— A beautiful tree with the habit of a laurel ; trunk 

 strictly erect, 15 to 30 ft. high and more ; leaves evergreen, deep- 

 green, remarkably glossy ; fruit black-purple, sparingly juicy, one- 

 seeded ; seed spherical ; calyx trifld. Near Trombeta, without either 

 fl. or fr. March 1855 ; in the denser forests near Trombeta, Sange, and 

 N-delle ; ripe fr. March 1856. The timber is very hard, valuable, and 

 usually but not always dusky-black in the centre. No. 2539. An 

 evergreen tree of 20 to 35 ft. in height, with valuable wood. In 

 forests between Calolo and Trombeta ; without either fl. or fr. Feb. 

 1856. No. 2541. A beautiful tree, 25 ft. high, with deep glossy green 

 leaves. In the dense forests of Serra de Alto Queta, without either fl. 

 or fr. August 1856. No. 2540. 



The native name of this tree is " Mualala " both in Loanda and 

 Golungo Alto. No. 2539 was occasionally called also " Dendo," the 

 name of Diospyi-os Dendo. In order to convince himself as to the 

 native name, Welwitsch requested the chief Moncao to send him a 

 Muahlla from Trombeta, and received exactly the same species. 

 According to a ms. note of Welwitsch, the wood of Muahlla, called 

 also " Taenia escura " (dark Taenia) is good for making flutes and 

 other such musical instruments. 



2. M. buxifolia Pers, Syn. PI. ii. p. 606 (1807); Hiern, I.e. 

 Ehenus buxifolia 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 408 (1891). 

 Var. Ebenus Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeylan. p. 183 (1860). 

 A.AII5KIZ. — A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, with the habit of the 



family ; branches rather erect ; branchlets crowded, slender, sub- 

 pubescent with thin hairs ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, easily deciduous 

 at the time of the flowering, undulate on the margin ; flowers dioecious, 

 white or whitish, rather rigid. In the male plant peduncles 3-flowered, 

 rather shorter than the petioles ; flowers when open somewhat nodding ; 



