58 XX. HYPERiciNE.^. \IIarungana 



3. HARUNGANA Lam. Tabl. t. 645 (1797); Benth. & Hook. 

 f. Gen. PL i. p. 167 {Haronga). 



1. H. paniculata Pers. Syn. ii. 91 (1807) {Arungana); Haronga 

 niadagascariensis Choisy ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 160. 

 Psoros2)ermum (sp.) Welw. Synopse, p. 13, n. 27 (1862). 



Sierra Leone. — A small tree of 8 ft. (probably a young tree), 

 decussately branched, leaves coriaceous, glossy, flowers white, fruit 

 brick-red, size of a pepper-corn ; in the higher woods of Sugarloaf 

 Mountain, near Freetown, fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5398 ; fr., No. 5397. 



GoLUXoo Alto.— A handsome tree, 20 to 80 ft. high (or in the 

 secondary woods and thickets a shrub scarcely flowering), with the 

 habit of Laurus ; trunk straight, 1 to '2 ft. in diam. ; wood compact, 

 durable, abounding in a fine orange-red resin which stains paper with 

 an orange colour ; leaves evergreen, moderately coriaceous, above bright 

 gi-een glabrous minutely not pellucidly punctate, beneath covered with 

 a very short appressed quasi-furfuraceous pale-cinnamon tomentum, 

 the leaves of young plants often a foot long ; flowers white or white- 

 reddish, aromatic, rather small, pentamerous ; drupes globose, scarcely 

 half the size of pepper-corns, or when fully swollen and ripe scarcely 

 the size of black pepper-corns, glossy-brown-yellowish, nearly dry ; 

 pyrenes 5, moderately crustaceous, 1- or more seeded ; seeds ascending, 

 obcuneate-cylindrical, somewhat compressed, bi-own, shining, minutely 

 scrobiculate, one in each drupe almost always larger and better de- 

 veloped than the rest. Abundant in mountainous primitive woods of 

 Serra de Alta Queta and of Mount Cungulungulo, fl. Jan. to March ; 

 Montalagre, 3 Feb. 1855 ; Alta Queta, 28 Feb. 1856. Native name 

 " Mutune '' or " Mutr.le " ; the wood is called "Pao Mutune " or 

 " Mutule." See Welw., l.c , and Apont. p. 560 under No. 140. No. 1063. 

 In fruit, No. 5399. 



A specimen from the Island of St. Thomas, where it is called 

 " Sangue " or " Pao Sangue," probably belongs to this species : the 

 leaves are, however, of the same pale taAvny colour on both surfaces, 

 and there are no flowers nor fruits ; Dec. 1860. No. 5400. See 

 Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 101. 



4. CAOPIA Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 448 (1763). 

 Vismia Vand. (1788); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 166. 



1. C. affinis 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 58 (1891). 

 Vismia affinis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 161. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, very frondose ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous (chartaceous and marked with small round 

 glands in the dry state), very caducous ; flowers red outside, petals 

 turning white. Rather rare, in the less dense woods of Sobato de 

 Bumba and Bango, very sporadic ; in the ascent to Capojia, in young 

 fl. Dec. 1855. No. lOBl*'. 



2. C. frondosa 0. Kuntze, l.c. 

 Vismia frondosa Oliv., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree, widely frondose ; branches spreading ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, glossy, marked with small round dark glands ; 

 flowers white. Sparingly, in wooded declivities near the ascent to the 

 spring of Capopa, in fl. and young fr. Jan. 1856. No. 1062. 



