Nathusia] Lxxx. oleace^e. 657 



Abyssinia. — A tree. In valleys near Gennia, Memsacli ; fl. and fr. 

 14 Dec. 1837. Schimper, i. n. 245. 



Var. /3. tomentella (Wehv. in Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 42). 



HuiLLA. — An arborescent shrub of 5 to 8 ft. or almost a small tree, 

 very hard, with patent brittle branches, ash-like foliage, and very 

 fragrant jessamine-scented whitish sordid-purplish flowers. In the 

 rocky more elevated drier parts of Morro de Lopollo, at an elevation 

 of 5200 to 5500 ft. ; fl. and young fr. end of March 18G0. A form 

 with the branchlets, leaves, peduncles, and pedicels silky-tomentellous. 

 No. 939. 



2. N. golungensis O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 412 (1891). 

 Scltrehera (/oli/iHjensis Wehv., I.e., p. 40, t. xv. 



GoLUNcJo Alto. — A handsome tree, 15 to 30 ft. high ; trunk I to 

 2 ft. in diameter at the base ; branches erect-spreading or spreading ; 

 flowering branchlets somewhat nodding ; leaves evergreen or deciduous, 

 moderately coriaceous, shining ; flowers very sweetly fragrant especially 

 by night ; calyx shortly campanulate, green, fleshy, shortly 4- to (i- 

 toothed, often quasi-truncate, the teeth very deUcately fringed ; corolla 

 salver-shaped, inserted at the bottom of the calyx-tube ; the limb 

 constantly G-eleft ; the segments obovate, densely beset within from 

 the base to the middle with red papilljB, patent at the time of full 

 flowering ; the whole corolla soon tinged with a cinnamon colour and 

 in this state emitting a clove-like aroma ; stamens included or snb- 

 exserted ; anthers ellipsoidal-obovoid, attached about the middle of the 

 back ; ovary free ; ovules 3 or 4 in each cell ; style elongated ; 

 cotyledons oblong, rather fleshy, flat, not longitudinally folded ; radicle 

 tolerably conspicuous, obtuse, directed towards the bile. In elevated 

 primitive forests among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, here 

 and there ; fl. Dec. 1855 ; fr. May 1856. No. 933 and Com-. Cai:i'. 711. 



3. N. trichoclada 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



Schrehera triehoclada Welw., I.e., p. 41. Nathusia foliis indivisis, 

 Wehv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 153 (Feb. 1859). 



Ambaca. — A robust shrub, with the habit somewhat of SdJi.r caprra 

 L., perhaps at length arborescent ; leaves very readily falling otf in 

 the course of drymg, those at the ends of the branchlets larger and 

 acute, those at their base smaller and very obtu.se, flowers very 

 pleasantly fragraut. In rocky mountainous places among tall bushes 

 at the great cave of Puri-Cacarambola, rather rare ; fl. end of Oct. 

 1856. No. 934. 



PrxGO Andonco. — An arborescent shrub, 8 to 10 ft. high : branches 

 patent. In the sandy Panda forests between the river Lutete and the 

 prassidium, very sporadic and rather rare ; fl. Oct. 1856 ; fr. June 1857. 

 A form with the leaves and calyces sparingly hairy but the flowering 

 branches hoary-tomentellous as in the type ; the leaves shorter and 

 broader, obovate-elliptical and more compact. No. 935. A small tree, 

 15 ft. high or rarely more, or sometimes a bush of 8 to 12 ft. ; trunk 

 straight, patently branched above ; wood used for making domestic 

 utensils ; leaves hard-membranous, deciduous ; stamens 2, inserted on 

 the corolla-tube a quarter below its throat, included ; filaments rather 

 broad, compressed ; anthers linear-oblong, very obtuse at both ends ; 

 ovary nearly glabrous; style glabrous, cylindrical, central, straight; 

 stigma clavate, obtuse at the apex, more or less deeply bilaminate, 

 viscid ; capsule pyramidal, acuminate. In thin sandy forests between 



