Oku] LXXX. OI.KACE.E. 659 



LoANDA. — A small tree, K to 10 ft. high. In sandy maritime place.'* 

 in the island of Caz-.mga near Loanda, introduced from Portugal and 

 several trees cultivated ; without either 11. or fr. May 1854. No. 940. 



It was reported to Welwitsch that this tree flowered abundantly in 

 Benguella gardens, but that it never or only once had borne fruit 

 there : in Apontam. p. 549, under n. 8'J, he recommended its culti- 

 vation in the district of Pungo Andongo. 



LXXXI. SALVADORACE^. 



1. SALVADORAGavcin, L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 681 . 



1. S. persica L. 8p. PI. edit. 1, p. 122 (1753). 

 Var. densiflora (Welw. ma in Herb.). 



A perennial slirub, 4 to 6 ft. high, of a sad pallid almo,'>t 

 Chenopodiaceous aspect, much and densely branched ; sap watei-y ; 

 stem scarcely jointed ; branchlets virgate, divergent-nodding, 

 green compressed-angular and pubescent towards the extremities ; 

 leaves opposite, oval, rounded or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or 

 obliquely narrowed towards the base, coriaceous, glabrous or 

 nearly so, evergreen, pallid-glaucous, entii^e and in the dry state 

 rather undulate on the margin, 1 to 2 in. long by ^ to 1 in. broad ; 

 petiole i to i in. long ; flowers hermaphrodite, greenish, tetra- 

 merous, ^V ^^- ^^ diameter, on very short puberulous pedicels, 

 densely paniculate ; calyx deeply quadridentate, rather fleshy ; 

 corolla quadrifid, longer than the calyx ; the lobes somewhat 

 imbricate in aestivation, revolute at the time of full flowering, 

 thinly membranous, whitish-greenish; stamens 4, alternating 

 with the corolla-lobes, filaments flattened, ascending ; anthers 

 globose, didymous, introrse, 2 -celled, longitudinally dehiscing, 

 yellow; ovary comparatively large, spherical, green, sessile at 

 the bottom of the calyx-tube, covering the insertion of the corolla- 

 lobes and stamens, 1 -celled, 1 -ovulate; disk obsolete; berx-y soft, 

 rosy, as large as a peppercorn, hyaline-pulpy inside, 1- seeded. 



LoAXDA, ETC. — In sandy maritime rocky places, very plentiful along 

 the coast from Ambriz to the mouth of the Cuanza ; near Loanda, fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1853 and Oct. 1857. No. 944. 



2. AZIMA Lam. (1783) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 681. 

 3fonetia L'Herit. Stirpes Nova;, p. 1, t. 1 (1784). 



1. A. tetracantha Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 343 (1783). 



Monetia barlerioides L'llei'it., I.e. 



LoAXDA.— An erect, much-branched shrub, 3 or rarely 4 ft. high, 

 bristling with very acute axillary spines ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, 

 evergreen ; flowers greenish-yellowish ; fruit white. In sandy and 

 rocky bushy maritime hilly places along the whole coast of the 

 district, plentiful ; fl. in April, f r. from March to August : near Maianga 

 d'El Rei, fl. beginning of April 1854. Nos. 942, 4649, 5403- A coast 

 shrub ; leaves fleshy, brittle ; spines cruciate : flowers Khamnoid, 

 green ; berries crowded, black, juicy ; Praia de Penedo ; fr. Jan. 1854. 

 Coll. Carp. 336. 



IcoLo E Bexgo. — In rather dry thinly bushy places near Dafunda, 

 rather sparingly ; fl. Sept. 1857. A broad-leaved form of this species. 

 No. 943. 



