82 XXIV. STERCULiACE.E. [StercuUci 



to 2^ in. long) ; near Canguerasange, etc. ; fl. Oct. 1854, fr. August. 



No. 4685. A young tree, 20 ft. high, with a broad crown ; flowers of a 



cinnamon-reddish colour ; in less dense forests, throughout the district ; 



at Sange, fl. April 1856. No. 4689. By the river Delamboa, fl. August 



1856 ; native name " Quibondo." No. 4690. 

 PuNGO Andoxgo. — A tree, 20 ft. high, probably a young one ; in 



the wooded parts of Barranco da Pedra Songue within the citadel ; 



with foliage but without flowers, Feb. 1857. No. 4688. 



The two following numbers show leaves less pubescent beneath, 



but are without either flowers or fruits ; they may, however, 



belong here : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — From the Government House courtyard in Sange, 



said by Welwitsch to be the species from which he collected the flowers 



in the last quarter of 1854 on the Delamboa ; Sept. 10th, 1856 ; native 



name "Quibondo camenha." No. 4686. Inhedgeat Sange, May 1856. 



No. 4684. 



The following probably belongs to this species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A lofty tree ; fibre excellent for various purposes; 



the natives call the tree " Quibondo," and the fruit " Mucolococo " ; 



Sange 1855 (seeds albuminous, i to f in. long ; fruit 2 in. long). 



Coll. Carp. 276. 



The following three numbers of the herbarium (and the two of 



the carpological collection) perhaps belong to the same species; 



but their leaves differ by being glabrous or nearly so : — 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A tree, 30 to 60 ft. high, with a quite straight 



trunk, unbranched below and forming above a more or less depressed 



ovoid crown ; in forests by the river Luinho, but always in drier spots 



than " Quibondo ca menha " ; in flower at Sange at the beginning of 

 July 1856 ; native name " Quibondo ik Molemba." No. 4681. Fre- 

 quent as saplings in the Alameda at Sange, and in company with the 

 " Quibondo ca menha," in the Government courtyard ; leaves much 

 larger (attaining more than a foot long by 7 inches broad) nearly 

 glabrous and more deeply cordate at the base than in that tree ; in 

 fruit with ripe seeds, near the wall of the courtyard, Sept. 10th, 1856 ; 

 the capsules of this species or variety are when young of a peach-red 

 colour, and when old of a rusty brownish-grey. No. 4683. At the 

 great cataract of the river Cuango, near Sange ; leaves of the young 

 " Bondo-ik-Molemba " ; August 1855. No. 4683. Coll. Carp. 279. 

 Ripe seeds very bitter, of a cinnamon-red colour ; native name " N- 

 Bondo ia Molemba " ; March 1856. Coll. Carp. 278. 



An imperfect specimen, No. 4687, bearing an oval leaf lOJ in. long 

 by 6 in. broad, besides the petiole of 3j in. long, glabrous except the 

 middle and lateral veins beneath and petiole, from Monte CafEe in the 

 Island of St. Thomas, Dec. 1890, may be mentioned here, but it appears 

 to belong to a different species ; it is there called " Nespera." The 

 timber of this tree is said to be good, strong and durable, and to be the 

 same as that known in Prince's Island as "popd." See Ficalho, PI. 

 Ut. p. 106 (1884). 



2. S. tomentosa Guill. & Perr. Fl. Senegamb. Tent. p. 81, t. 16 

 (1831); Masters, I.e., p. 217; non Thunb. 



LoANDA. — Museque Schut ; fl. Dec. 1857; native name "Chixe"; 

 (carpels 3 in. long, hispid-tomentose outside, pilose with stellate hairs 

 inside ; leaves ranging up to 5 in. in length). No. 4691. A tree. 



