360 Liii. MYRTACEiE. [Eugenia 



HuiLLA. — A dwarf shrub, 9 to 12 in. high, very gregarious, quasi- 

 caespitose ; stem erect or ascending ; flowers white ; fruit edible. On 

 bushy pastures between MumpuUa and Nene, abundant ; fl. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4401- A tree, about 12 ft. high ; fruit, when ripe, as large as a 

 very fine cherry, from violet-greenish to purplish, at first somewhat 

 musky, soon turning sweet-sourish. In the forests of Monino ; nearly 

 ripe fr. Feb. 1860. No. 4402- A small tree of 8 to 15 ft., with 

 rambling branches and white flowers. In moist and also in the drier 

 forests in the Monino country, in company with species of Protect, 

 Erythrhia, and Acada, not uncommon ; fl. Nov. 1859, fr. Jan. 1860. 

 No. 4403. 



4. E. cordata Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 438 {cordatum). 

 Syzygium cordatum Hochst. ex Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. 



Cap. ii. p. 521 (1862). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub of 6 ft. or perhaps the upgrowth from 

 a mutilated tree. In thickets between Luxillo and Quilanga, sparingly ; 

 fr. March 1857. No. 4399. A shrub scarcely 2 ft. high with numerous 

 stems, perhaps the progeny of a burnt or cut-down tree, with pellucid- 

 punctate leaves (the pellucid dots rare and distant, but obvious) and 

 monstrous greenish flowers ; in secondary thickets at the banks of the 

 river Luxillo, near the bridge, Jan. 1857. A shrub of 4 ft., perhaps a 

 mutilated tree, with whitish-greenish apparently imperfect flowers : 

 in thickets at the borders of forests near Candumba, March 1857. A 

 small mutilated tree, Muta Lucala, December 1856. No. 4400. 



HuiLLA. — A small tree, more frequently an arborescent shrub, 6 to 

 10 ft. high ; branches lax ; leaves sessile, auriculate-cordate at the base. 

 Conspicuously distinct from the other plants of the order in the 

 Lopollo country. In rocky situations at the base of the mountains in 

 Morro de Lopollo, abundant ; fr. beginning of Feb. 1860. No. 4404. 



5. E. benguellensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A handsome tree, about 30 to 40 ft. high, occasionally only 

 15 to 20 ft., with a broad leafy head, glabrous; branches sub- 

 terate ; bark pallid or pale-reddish ; leaves opposite, oval or 

 oval-oblong, rounded at both ends, sometimes somewhat emargi- 

 nate at the apex, firmly coriaceous, minutely dotted, 1| to 3| in. 

 long by 5 to 1:^ in. broad; lateral veins numerous, not strongly 

 marked, making about 45° with the midrib ; petiole short, ~r to 

 -L. in. long ; inflorescence cymose, terminal, 1 1 to 2 in. in diameter, 

 many-flowered; ultimate pedicels short; bracteoles short, decidu.ous; 

 flowers whitish ; calyx-tube turbinate, J to ^ in. long ; limb 4-lobed, 

 lobes rounded, spreading or reflexed, persistent ; filaments about 

 ^ in. long ; young fruit ellipsoidal, | inch long. 



Bumbo. — In primitive forests alongside streams near Bruco, at an 

 elevation of 2800 to 3000 ft. ; fl. young, fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4394. By 

 the Bumbo stream, at the base of the mountains of Serra da Xella, in 

 company with species of Acacia , Adhia mkrocqjhala, and Sapotacete, 

 abundant ; fl Oct. 1859. No. 4395. 



6. E. urophylla Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A glabrous tree, 30 ft. high ; trunk 2 ft. in diameter at the 

 base ; head rather lax ; leaves elliptical, usually pi-oduced at the 

 apex into a long narrow acumen, wedgeshaped at the base, firmly 



