12 III. ANONACE^, [Monodora 



fructification, is a prominent character in this genus. Each of the 

 Angolan species is called by the negroes " N-pepe," the plural form 

 of which name is " Jipepe," " Gipepe," or "Xipepe." The name 

 is probably of Italian origin, il pepe, pepper, since the seeds of 

 these plants are used by the negroes like pepper. It is well known 

 that the negroes of Congo, Angola, etc., have adopted from the 

 missionaries, who were Italians, a number of names for fruits, 

 household utensils, etc., and have adapted them more or less to 

 the structure of the Bunda language. 



1. M. Myristica Dun. Monogr. Anon., p. 80 (1817); Welw. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 151 (1859); Welw. Apont. pp. 582, 587; 

 Welw. Synopse, pp. 30, 31 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 37 ; Welw. 

 Sert. Angol. p. 11, obs. 



Xilopia midulata P. Beauv. Fl. d'Owar i. p. 27, t. 16 (exel. fr.) 

 (1804). 



Var. grandiflora. I.e., p. 38. 



M. grandiflora Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii, p. 474, tabb. 

 52, 53 (1862). 



A vast, very beautiful tree, 30 to 60 ft. high and more ; trunk 

 at the base 1 to 2| ft. diam., erect, variegated with black and 

 lead-colour ; branches spreading, the lower ones at length turned 

 down, those towards the apex of the trunk constituting an 

 elongate-ovate crown; timber white, durable; leaves coriaceous, 

 sometimes rigidly so, rather glossy above, glaucescent on both 

 surfaces, quickly turning dark- coloured ; the midrib as well as 

 the somewhat channelled petioles and the young shoots finely 

 reddish, sufiiised with a glaucous hue ; flowers very handsome, at 

 first nodding, at length pendulous; peduncle long, furnished in 

 the middle with a broad lax hooded greenish bract, reddish at 

 the base ; calyx trifid ; lobes subpetaloid, reflexed, keeled ; corolla 

 monopetalous, 6 -parted ; lobes all keeled, white at the base, 

 undulate-crisped at the margin; outer ones variegated on the 

 lamina with spots of flesh-colour and dark purple, as in Tigridia 

 Pavonia Pers. ; inner ones shorter, cordate-spathulate, connivent 

 at the apex and margins, rather striate than spotted, hoary- 

 glaucescent ; stamens very numerous, densely crowded around the 

 conical-cyhndrical torus; anthers subsessile, whitish as well as 

 the pollen-grains ; ovary sessile on the apex of the torus, green, 

 spherical, 1 -celled, many-ovuled, terminating in a green, rather 

 thick, sparingly pilose, more or less hemispherical stigma ; capsule 

 globose, nearly as big as a man's head, woody, very hard, pendu- 

 lous, outside black, rather smooth ; peduncle woody, 1| to 2 ft. long. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Sporadic but not unfrequent in dense primitive 

 woods, from the bottom of valleys up to the highest ridges of moun- 

 tains throughout the district, flowers from Nov. to Feb., fruits from 

 March to May and August 1854 to 1857. Nos. 773, 777, 779, 780. 

 Coll. CARr. 187, 188. 



St. Thomas Island. — In mountainous wooded places of Fazenda 

 do Monte Caflfe ; without flower Dec. 1860; native name "Jobo" 

 {" Schobo "). A unique specimen. No. 778. In the elevated forests ; 



