362 Liii. MYRTACE^. [Eugenia 



8. E. Tungo Hiern, sp. n. 



A tree, 15 to 20 feet high, much branched, with a lax 

 spreading head, glabrous throughout ; with the habit of a cofiee ; 

 branches and branchlets spreading at about 45°, whitish, the 

 former subterete, the latter somewhat compressed towards the 

 extremities ; leaves simple, opposite, elliptical or roundly ovate, 

 more or less acuminate at the apex, and wedge-shaped or obtuse 

 at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glaucous- green, glossy above, 

 shghtly reddish beneath (in the dry state), remarkably pellucid- 

 punctate, 2 to 3 inches long by 1 to 1^ in. broad; margins entire, 

 narrowly revolute ; lateral veins numerous, spreading at a wide 

 angle, not conspicuous ; petiole 5 to | in. long, channelled above ; 

 infructescence cymose, apparently terminal, about 2 in. long; 

 ultimate pedicels very short ; fruit di-upaceous, oblong-obovoid, 

 about an inch long, yellow-reddish or green-reddish, edible, slightly 

 and agreeably acid ; flesh thin ; seed solitary ; embryo large. 



PxjNGO Andongo. — In wooded thickets and at the banks of the 

 river Cuanza from Quitage to Quisonde, abundant, principally on the 

 Calemba islands and in their vicinity ; fr. middle of March 1857. 

 Called " Tungo do Cuanza," or "Tungu da catarata de Condo." No. 

 1245 and Coll. Carp. 564. 



As is very frequently the case with tropical African fruits, the 

 seed is large in proportion to the size of the fruit. 



3. PETERSIA Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 721 

 (Oct. 1865). 



1. P. africana Welw., I.e. ; Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 439. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A large tree, 30 to 80 feet high, somewhat 

 resembhng a Bavrhigtonia ; trunk 2 to 4 feet in diameter at the base, 

 denuded of branches to the height of 20 feet ; head very leafy, spread- 

 ing, depressed at the apex ; leaves punctate ; calyx winged ; petals 

 adhering at the base to the staminal ring ; stamens indefinite, deciduous 

 with the corolla ; fruit very broadly membranous-winged, not unlike 

 that of Combretaceae. In primitive forests, in moist deep valleys among 

 the mountains of the Eastern Queta ; fl. Feb. 1855 ; fr. end of July 

 1856. No. 4591. 



4. NAPOLEON^A P. Beauv. ex Fr. Fischer in Mem. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. i. p. 92 (1806). 



Napoleona P. Beauv. (1810); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 723; 

 non Naj)oleone Bob. Voy. Louis, i. p. 355, ii. pp. 322, 441 (1807). 



1. N. imperialis P. Beauv. ex. Fr. Fischer in Mem. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. i. p. 92 (1806). 



Napoleona imperialis P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. (pars xiii) p. 30, t. 78 

 (1810) ; Laws, in Ohv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 439. Belvisia ccBvulea 

 Desv. Journ. Bot. (Ser. 2) iv. p. 130 (1814). N. angoleiisis Welw. 

 Apont. p. 571 sub n. 171, p. 586 n. 25 ; Mast, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 X. p. 494 (1869) ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, i. p. 12 (July 

 1875). 



GoLUNGO Alto.— An arborescent bush, 12 to 20 ft. high, evergreen, 

 resembling in its habit and glossy foliage a luxuriant Camellia, a 

 really imperial ornament of the primitive forests ; trunk slender, 2 to 



