Dovijalis] XII. BixiNE^. 41 



with numerous spreading stigmatose lobes at the tip ; cells of the 

 ovary apparently each with several ovules. By thickets in moist rocky 

 situations, near Catete ; sporadic ; in female flower-bud 28 Feb. 1857. 

 No. 539. A patently branched little tree ; trunk straight ; branches and 

 branchlets spinous, leaves softly coriaceous, yellowish-green beneath ; 

 calyx deeply 6-8-cleft, divided nearly to the base ; immature fruit 

 baccate, globose, hirsute outside, juicy, as large as a hazel-nut, mostly 

 3-celled, bursting the 6-8-partite calyx, crowned at the apex with the 

 firm style which is di\dded into 4 or several stigmas ; cells 1 -seeded, 

 seeds hirsute. In dampish rocky places within the fortress at Bar- 

 rancos de Catete ; in young fruit 12 May 1857. No. 5396.. 



Var. /3, lanceolata (Oliv., I.e., p. 123). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A slender little tree, 10 to 12 ft. high, with 

 spreading spinous branches and whitish-tomentose flower-buds. In 

 bushy stations at the cataract of Condo of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; 

 in flower-bud March 1857. No. 546 (not 5466). 



XIII. PITTOSPORE^. 



1. PITTOSPORUM Banks; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 131. 



1. P. coriaceum Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, iii. p. 488 (1789) ; Lowe 

 Fl. Mad. i. p. 104. 



Island of Madeira.— Fruit. Sr. J. M. Moniz. Coll. Carp. 228. 



2. P. viridiflorum Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1684 (1814). 



P. ahyssinicum Del., var. angolensis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 124. 



HuiLLA. — A small evergreen floribund tree, 10 to 12 ft. high, much 

 branched, aromatic-resinous in most parts ; branches whitish, erect- 

 patent, subfastigiate ; leaves thinly coriaceous, glossy above, pale and 

 reticulate-venulose beneath ; flowers densely panicled at the apex of 

 the branchlets, pale yellow, very nicely and powerfully fragrant with 

 an aroma combining those of Syringa and Orange ; calyx short, 5-partite 

 to the base, segments obtuse, ciliolate. Petals 5, claws connivent into 

 a short tube, limb rather spreading. Stamens rather perigynous than 

 hypogyuous, erect ; ovary 2-3-celled ; cells 2-3-ovuled ; style thick, 

 straight, firm ; stigma truncate-capitate, at the time of fecundation 

 furnished with a milk-white glutinous exudation round which the 

 anthers adhere. The flowers last a long time, and especially in a dry 

 season remain long in bud. Not uncommon in thin sandy woods about 

 the large lake Ivantala ; in flower-bud Jan. 1860, fl. beginning of Feb., 

 fr. May 1860. No. 1034. An arborescent shrub, 6 ft. high, with a 

 dilated divaricate crown and tortuous very rigid branches and branch- 

 lets ; flowers whitish-yellow. Sporadic in stony spots in Morro do 

 Monino, at an elevation of 5500 ft. above the sea ; fl. March, f r. Mav 

 1860. No. 10346. 



XIV. POLYGALACE^. 



Throughout the coast regions of Angola proper the Polygalaceai 

 are scarce, and are represented only by two forms of an herbaceous 

 Polygala ; even in the hilly regions the number of species is not 

 much increased, though there occur two genera, Securidaca and 

 Carpolohia, which consist of woody plants. One species of Securi- 

 daca is a gigantic creeper, with a trunk from 2 to 2| ft. in 



