368 LIV. MELASTOMACE.E. 



1860. No. 916. An erect branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; stems 

 numerous ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, tomentose ; flowers large, 

 handsome, violet-purple. In thickets by streams near Lopollo ; fl. 

 April 1860 ; fr. Dec. 1859. Coll. Carp. 574. 



4. AMPHIBLEMMA Naud. ; Benth. & Hook f . Gen. PI. i. p. 754. 

 1. A. cymosum Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 3, xv. p. 51 (1851), 



and xiv. t. 7. f. vii. (1850) ; Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 

 456 ; Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 528 (1891). 



Melastoma cymosum Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 14 (1803). M. 

 cm-ymbosa Sims Bot. Mag. t. 904 (1806). Heterotis (sp.), Benth. 

 in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 352 (1849). 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A sufEruticose herb, 2| to 3^ ft. high ; stem 

 tetragonal : leaves membranous, rather rigid, intensely green ; flowers 

 violet-purple. In densely shaded situations by the sides of streams 

 among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, sparingly ; fl. Jan., fr. 

 March 1856. No. 901. A perennial herb, 2J to 4 ft. high ; stem 

 4- winged ; leaves very large, pale green ; flowers rosy ; petals very 

 caducous. At the cataract, Zengas de Queta, rather rare ; capsules 

 and seeds, March 1856. Coll. Carp. 569. 



Cazengo. — In the very dense, elevated forests of Muxaula, on the 

 left bank of the river Luinha, very rare ; fr. and very few fl. June 

 1855. No. 902. 



5. MEMECYLON L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 773. 



1. M. membranifolium Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 

 462 ; Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 1135 (1891). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A small tree, with whitish bark, blue flowers, 

 and blue edible berries. In the primitive forests of Mata de Pungo, 

 near Pedras de Pungo ; fl. Jan., fr. May 1857. No. 912. 



2. M. polyanthemos Hook, f., I.e., p. 463; Cogniaux, p. 1160. 

 Pungo Andongo. — A very elegant, patently branched tree of 10 to 



15 ft. : leaves hard-coriaceous, uninerved, impunctate, glossy, ever- 

 green ; flowers deep-blue, abruptly and acutely conical in the bud ; 

 calyx-limb repand, 4-subdentate ; petals 4 ; stamens 8, erect ; anthers 

 2-celled, white ; cells diverging at the base, dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 ovary 2-celled. Berry spherical, beautiful clear-blue ; juice coloured 

 deep-blue ; seed solitary (or very rarely 2), exalbuminous ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, thick, very intricately conduplicate. In little rocky woods at 

 the base of the gigantic rocks of Barrancos de Catete, near Catete, 

 sporadic ; fr. and sparingly fl. Nov. and 5 Dec. 1856. A small tree 

 of 12 ft. ; fr. end of April 1857. No. 911. 



The following note from Welw. Synopse, p. 4, n. 7 probably refers 

 to this, or possibly to the previous species of the genus, or to both ; 

 Ficalho in Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lisb. ii. p. 709 (1882) refers it doubt- 

 fully to M. fasciculare Planch., and in PI. Uteis p. 184 (1884) to 

 M. Vogelii Naud. : — " Cosanza " is the native name of a small 

 tree of remarkable elegance, belonging to this family ; it occurs 

 chiefly in rocky forests from Pungo Andongo to Songo, and its 

 wood is valued by the natives for the purpose of manufacturing 

 various domestic and defensive implements, as, for instance, the 



