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PuNGO ANDONCiO. — In dry thin open woods near Caghuy : H. Nov 



1856, fr. May 1857. No. 4286. A tree of 12 to 20 ft., occurring 

 throughout Angola, with very hard and durable wood, and known by 

 the name of "Mueia," wonderfully variable as to the indumentum of 

 its branchlets foliage and inflorescence ; flowering branches, petioles, 

 rachis of the racemes, and calyx usually pubescent-hirsute ; petioles 

 not exceeding h to j in. long, sometimes almost obsolete ; leaves when 

 old mostly more or less glabrate or thinly puberulous, almost always 

 oblong-oblanceolate, always deep-green above, canescent or whitish- 

 glaucous with midrib purplish laeneath ; flowers white, arranged in 

 simple racemes shorter than the leaves ; stamens 10 ; drupes 1] to 1 J in. 

 long, borne on a stipes of I to ^ in. long, and surrounded with a rather 

 rigid wing elliptical in outline and more or less emarginateat the apex, 

 thinly tomentellous or pubescent on the surface. Abundant, on rocky 

 hills and at the borders of forests near the fortress ; fl. and f r. Oct. 1 850. 

 No. 4340. A moderate-sized tree with a narrow head, and affording 

 excellent timber ; flowers white. In open rocky woods near Caghuy ; 

 fl. Nov. and Dec. 1856. No. 4341- An evergreen tree, 15 to 20 ft. 

 high. In the thickets of the fortress near the river Luxillo ; fr. May 



1857. No. 4342. 



HuiLi.A. — A small tree of 8 to 12 ft. ; branches and branchlets 

 sparse, deep-purple, glabrous ; leaves alternate, subsessile, oblanceolate, 

 apiculate, glabrous on both sides, bright-green above, glaucous beneath. 

 In hilly tall-bushy places between Lopollo and Humpata, at 5000 to 

 5500 feet altitude : fr. end of May 1860 ; a glabrate form. Nos. 4285 

 and 4343. CoLi.. Carp. 59. 



Var. huillensis. 



Foliage pallid, clothed on both sides with appressed incon- 

 spicuous pubescence. 



HuiLLA. — A small tree, of a grey colour, with pallid head and white 

 flowers. In hilly, bushy, somewhat stony, dry and barren situations 

 between Lopollo and Nene, at an elevation of 5000 ft. : fl. Dec. 1859, 

 young fr. Feb. 1860. Nos. 4294 and 4338. 



The mueia (pronounced mu-ei-a) has a trunk rarely exceeding 18 in. 

 diameter : the wood is compact, of tolerably fine grain, yellowish 

 colour and great hardness, and suitable for the construction of various 

 agricultural implements, carts, and domestic utensils. See Welwitsch, 

 Apont. p. 568 under n. 164, and Synopse, p. 18, n. 45. 



3. T. benguellensis Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



An inelegant shrub, sub-arborescent, 4 to 6 ft. high or 

 occasionally higher, remarkable for the hardness of its wood and 

 rigidity of its ramifications ; branches virgate, subterete, glabrate 

 below, shortly pubescent or felted above, the older ones sub- 

 spinescent in consequence of the stiff pin -like character of the 

 patent alternate lateral branchlets, which are leafy in a fasciculate 

 manner at the apex ; indumentum pallid ; leaves alternate 

 .scattered or mostly crowded at the tips of the branchlets, obovate, 

 rounded and often apiculate or emarginate at the apex, more or 

 less wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, deep-green and 

 glabrescent or obsoletely tomentellous above, pallid and felted 

 beneath, entire, 1 to 2] in. long by 4 to 1 g in. broad ; petiole 

 i to ^ in. long, hairy or subglabrate ; inflorescence in the axils 

 of the uppermost leaves ; fruits racemose, bright blood-red, oval- 



