704 LXXXIV. LOGANIACE/E. [Stri/chilOS 



diameter at the base, leaves coriaceous, glossy ; flowers yellowish. 

 In shady wooded places by rivulets iu Barranco de Songue ; fr. Oct. 

 1856 ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 4776. A climbing evergreen shrub, with a 

 few short simple ,hooked tendrils ; fruit baccate, of a pleasant orange 

 colour, as big as a cherry, one-seeded, sparingly pulpy : seed depressed- 

 spherical. In shady places by the streams of the prpesidium : at the 

 river Tangue, in nearly ripe 'f r. Dec. 1856. No. 4777. A climbing 

 shrub. At the river Tangue ; fr. Dec. 1856. Coll. Carp. 959. 



The following No. should be compared with this species, and 

 perhaps belongs to it : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — An evergreen shrub, with the habit of the 

 genus. In thickets near Caghuy ; fl. apparently monstrous under 

 the attack of insects ; Dec. 1850. No. 1230. 



5. S. cocculoides Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 98. 



HuiLLA. — A small or moderate-sized tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, with 

 spiny-hooked branchlets. In mixed forests about Lopollo towards the 

 Monino ; in marcescent fl. and young fr. Oct. 1860. A broad-leaved 

 form of the Maboca dpce. No. 4779. A small tree with a Rhamnoid 

 habit ; leaves and branches sometimes excessively sometimes but little 

 shaggy or more or less pubescent. In mixed forests about Lopollo, 

 plentiful ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; in very late fl. and ripe fr. Jan. 18(;0. Called 

 " Maboca doce." No. 4780 and Coll. Carp. 744. A small tree, 

 12 to 15 ft. high, much and divaricately branched ; fruit edible. In 

 damp forests near Lopollo, not uncommon ; in Humpata abundant ; 

 fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. Native name " Maboca," but it is different 

 from the Maboca of Golungo Alto. The specimen consists only of 

 seeds and therefore the determination is doubtful. Coll. Carp. 39. 



6. S. pungens Solered. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 2. p. 40 (June 1892), and in Engl. p. 554. 



*S'. occidentalis Solereder in Engl. & Prantl, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; trunk straight, 6 to 12 in. in 

 diameter ; leaves rigid, glossy, mucronate, the mucro pungent ; fruit 

 edible but acidly pungent, and when eaten in quantity deleterious and 

 causing diarrhoea. In the Monino forests, in company with species of 

 Protea ; ripe fr. Jan. 1860. No. 4778- Flowers whitish ; in the same 

 locality ; Nov. 1859. No 4778^'. A smaU tree, 10 to 20 ft. high, 

 branched a little above the base ; branches rather erect ; leaves rigidly 

 coriaceous, pungent-mucronate ; fruit in form and colour like an 

 orange ; pulp acidulous, orange in colour, investing the seeds. In 

 wooded places near Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. Seeds only, 

 apparently belonging to this species. "Maboca venenosa." Coll. 

 Carp. 40. 



The following two Nos. have the general aspect of this order, 

 and the foliage is rather suggestive of the genus listeria, but the 

 absence of both flowers and fruit renders this position quite 

 doubtful : — 



Golungo Alto. — A very elegant, small tree, 6 to 8 ft. high ; 

 branches erect-spreading, firm ; leaves thickly and succulently cori- 

 aceous, very glossy. In forests and thickets at the river Cuango, but 

 never seen to flower ; May 1855. No. 6686. Apparently the same 

 plant. No. 3253. 



