<352 Lxxix. EBENACE^, [Diospyros 



Bumbo and Huilla. — A bush, perliaps a young tree. In the more 

 open forests from the base of Serra da Xella, above Bruco to 

 Mumpulla ; fl.-bud and fr. Oct. 185'J. No. 2530. 



This plant is mentioned by Welwitsch in Apont. p. 552 under n. 108, 

 ^nd is probably the Diospyros spoken of in Jouru. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 pp. 287, 300 (1866), as a constituent of forest in Ambriz, etc., and 

 as occurring by the copal-field near MongOlo in the forest composed 

 chiefly of Cynometra laxijiora Benth. The fungus n. 208, yEcuUum 

 Diospyri A. L. Sm., grew on the leaves of this species near Trombeta. 



2. D. platyphylla Welw. ex Hiern Monogr. Eben. in Trans. Cambr. 

 Phil. Soc. xii. p. 266 (1873), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 519. 



PuxGo Andoxgo. — ^A tree of moderate size : branches lax, tortuous, 

 leafy at the apex ; fruit said to be edible. In the more open sandy 

 Panda forests from Calunda to Condo ; scarcely in good fl. March 

 1857. Local name " Musolveira," the same as that of D. mesi^ilifonnis 

 Hochst. No. 2531. A shrub, 1^ to 2 ft. high ; perhaps the upgrowth 

 from an old tree ; rootstock large, very hard ; stems numerous, erect, 

 compressed-angular ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, shining, with raised 

 veinlets beneath ; fruit solitary, axillary, hirsute, apparently baccate, 

 received into the 4- or 5-cleffc calyx, apiculate at the apex with the 

 remains of the style. In the sandy Panda forests between Zamba and 

 Cazella, sporadic ; young fr. 18 Oct. 1856. Apparently this species. 

 No. 1234. An undershrub or shrublet, H ft. high, rigid. In the sandy 

 forests between Cazella and the praasidium, rather rare ; after the fall 

 of the fl., Nov. 1856. Perhaps this species. No. 1242. 



The fungus n. 211 grew on this species between Calunda and Condo. 



3. D. Loureiriana G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 39 (1837) ; Hiern 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 522 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 214 (1884). 



"Var. heterotricha Welw. ex Hiern in Journ, Bot. xiii. p. 355 

 (1875), and in Oliv. I.e., p. 523. 



GoLUNGO Alto, Ambaca, etc. — An erect shrub, 2 to 8 ft. high ; 

 stems several ; branches patent ; branchlets and young leaves clothed 

 with hairs of two kinds ; leaves membranous, usually flaccid, very 

 readily falling off in the drying ; flowers dicecious or at least poly- 

 gamous ; calyx quadrangular at the base, 4-clef t from the middle 

 upwards, valvate in flower, green ; corolla milk-white, perigynous, 

 gamopetalous, deeply 4-lobed, the lobes contorted in aestivation ; 

 stamens 8, adnate to the base of the corolla, densely bearded with 

 rather rigid hairs ; ovary spherical, crowned with 4 styles falling 

 short of the corolla ; fruit 8-seeded, said to be edible. In bushy places 

 and at the outskirts of forests throughout this and neighbouring 

 districts, especially in wooded mountainous places, and frequently 

 alongside high roads, fl. from Sept. to May 1854 to 1856 ; among the 

 Queta mountains, 28 Feb. 1855 ; in the shady woods of Sobato de 

 Mussengue, March 1855 ; in hilly thickets on a red muddy soil, from 

 Izanga towards N-gombe (in Ambaca), in company with Bauhinia 

 eissoides Welw. (herb. No. 552 ; a7ite p. 295) and Smilax Kraussiana 

 Meisn. (Welw. herb. No. 3860), fl. 16 and 17 Oct. 1856. No. 2535. 

 Branches erect-spreading; leaves deciduous; flowers polygamous; 

 corolla deeply 4-partite, white ; style bipartite at the apex. In the 

 more open woods of Sobato de Bumba near Bumba, fl. Sept. 1855 ; 

 in shady forests among the Queta mountains, fl. 24 Sept. 1856. A 

 narrow-leaved sprinsr form ; also at the cataract > of the Delamboa, 

 fr. Mav 1855. No. 2535/a 



