700 Lxxxiv. LOGAXiACE.E. [3Iosticea 



2. M. angolana. 



CoinocJdamys angolana S. Moore in Joui'n. Bot. xiv. p. 322, 

 t. 182, f. 1 (1876), and xvi. p. 139 (1878). 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect, very slender, virgately branched shrub, 

 3 to 4 ft. high, with membranous leaves, tubular, campanulate, milk- 

 white flowers, and compressed didymous fruits. In dense shrubberies 

 along the streams of the prassidium, near Catete ; fl. Jan., fr. May 1857 ; 

 also at Cabondo, sporadic ; fi. Nov. 1856 and Feb. 1857. No. 4760. 



The following ISTo. belong.s possibly to a third species of Mostuea ; 

 the leaves however are not strictly opposite but sub-opposite, and 

 the stipular scales are sufficiently different from those usual in 

 this genus ; in other respects the specimen suggests a Dichapetalmn. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, with the habit of a small tree, 5 to 8 ft. 

 in height ; the head spreading, widely frondose : ramification slender. 

 In the secondary thickets of Alto Queta, abave Querengue ; without 

 either fl. or fr. Jan. 1856. No. 4761. 



2. NUXIA Lam. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 792. 



1. N. dentata R. Bi\ in Salt, Abyss., App., p. 63, name only 

 (1814) ; Benth. & Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 435 (1846). 



Lachnopylis opjjositifolia Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, iii., 

 n. 1714 (C/. i. 1844), and in Flora xxvi. p. 77 (7 Feb. 1843). 

 J^. opjwsitifolia Benth. & Alph. DC, I.e. 



MossAMEDEs. — An arborescent shrub of 6 to 8 ft., or rarely a small 

 tree of 10 ft. in the interior of the district where it ornaments the 

 elevated rocks, much branched from the base, with the habit of a 

 Cordia ; the, fresh branchlets, younger leaves and flowers viscid ; 

 inflorescence bracteate ; flowers tetramerous, from whitish to yellowish ; 

 the calyx-lobes equal ; corolla regular, sordid-violet in colour at the 

 base : stamens 4, exserted, equal ; style far exserted ; stigma truncate. 

 In sandy thickets along the banks of the rivers Bero and Maiombe, 

 very plentiful ; fl. July, Sept., and Oct. 1859 and June 1860. No. 5766. 

 A shrub, 6 ft. high, with the habit of Eudea ; branchlets and in- 

 florescence viscid ; young leaves very viscid. In sandy places near 

 Cavalheiros, sporadic ; fl.-bud July 1859. No. 5767. 



2. N. angolensis Gilg in Notizbl. Bot. Berlin, No. 2, p. 74 

 (5 June 1895). Premna sp., Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 240 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree, 20 to .35 ft. high ; trunk 1 to 1| ft. in 

 diameter ; wood hard, whitish, sufficiently strong ; branches divaricate ; 

 bark cleft, separating with the greatest ease ; branchlets finely angular ; 

 leaves opposite or in most cases ternate, rather thick but neither fleshy 

 nor coriaceous, glossy above, turning pale beneath ; flowers corymbose, 

 whitish, sweetly fragrant : calyx-tube 4- or rarely 3-toothed, very rarely 

 only bifid and opening with two obtuse concave teeth ; corolla tubular, 

 white ; the limb 4-cleft ; the lobes valvate in estivation, reflected in 

 the open flower, the throat very shaggy ; anthers whitish, reniform, 

 exserted ; style far exserted, white, a little curved ; stigmas red, 

 truncate. On the drier slopes of the mountains of Alto Queta and of 

 Quilombo, not uncommon ; fl.-bud 27 May 1855 ; at Undelle, fl. 10 June 

 1865. Native name " Mussalengue." Nos. 5670, 6689. At Catomba 

 by the river Luinha ; fr. July 1856. No. 5660- In fl.-bud. No. 5624. 



