132 XXXIV. MELiACEJi. [Gkicivea 



^ in. long ; flowers forming ample pyramidal panicles at the extremities 

 of the branchlets, white ; those in the axils of the leaves more or less 

 abortive ; common peduncle acutely angled ; calyx cup-shaped, some- 

 what 5-toothed, sometimes 6- toothed ; petals .5, rarely 6, adhering to the 

 staminal tube and cohering up to their middle, valvate in asstivation ; 

 anthers 10, sometimes 12, attached by a third of their back to the 

 staminal tube, the alternate ones higher than the others ; staminal tube 

 5-6-striate, pilose inside. Disk obsolete ; ovary 2-3-celled ; ovules few, 

 2 ? in each cell ; stigma peltate-capitate, reaching the level of the 

 anthers. In the primitive woods of Mata de Quisucula, near Bango 

 Aquitamba ; in flower-bud end of April 1856. No. 1306. 



5. EKEBEEGIA Sparrm. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 335. 



1. E. senegalensis A. Juss. Mem. Meliac. p. 82, t. 17, f. 16a 

 (1830) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 333. 



Var. coriacea C. DO. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. p. 642 (1878). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A vast tree, 30 to 40 ft. high ; trunk at the base 

 2 to 3 ft. in diam. ; branches patent ; fruiting branchlets at length 

 nodding-pendulous ; leaflets in 4 to 6 pairs and an odd one, coriaceous, 

 rather shining above, pale-glaucous beneath ; common peduncle semi- 

 cylindrical, acutely winged ; fruiting peduncles axillary near the 

 extremities of the branchlets, bearing a fev/-fruited raceme, pendulous ;_ 

 fruit fleshy, spherical, green-dusky outside, borne at the base on the 

 remains of the calyx, bluntly umbonate at the apex with the stump of 

 the style, S-celled, exuding a viscid watery-milky juice which in drying 

 hardens into a gum, covered outside with circular bright scarlet-red 

 crowded rather convex gland-like dots ; seeds solitary, elongate-reni- 

 form, pendulous from the top of axis ; testa hard, whitish-brown. 

 Native name "Ngilich, ia muxito." Sporadic in the primitive woods of 

 Sobato de Quilorabo-Quiacatubia, at an elevation of 2,400 ft. ; in nearly 

 ripe fr. middle of July 1856. No. 1701- Berry coriaceous, yellowish, 

 rather fleshy, very resinous, 5-celled, 5 -winged, 1-4-seeded ; same 

 locality and date. Seeds. Coll. Cakv. 312. 



The following specimen of the foliage of a low tree with much- 

 branched crow n may possibly belong to the same species ; the 

 leaflets are narrower and more numerous : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In wooded places among the mountains of Alto 

 Queta ; June 1856. No. 1704&. 



2. E. benguelensis Welw. ex C. DC, I.e., p. 642 (1878). 

 HuiLLA. — Flowers white ; anthers 10 ; staminal-tube cylindric- 



campanulate, hairy within ; disk cup-shaped, with a swelled mouth ; 

 style thick; stigma capitate, 2-3-lobed. In the drier thickets near 

 Lopollo ; in late fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1303. An erect shrub ; fruit 

 turning a pretty red colour. In thickets near Lopollo, in the same 

 spot as the former No., at an elevation of 5,000 ft. ; with nearly 

 ripe fr. Dec. 1859. No. 1304. 



3. E. Welwitschii Hiern ex C. DC, I.e., pp. 643, 780 (1878). 

 PuNGO Andongo. — An erect shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high, with several 



stems from the ground ; leaflets velvety beneath ; male flowers through- 

 out whitish-tomentellous, 5-6 merous ; petals longer than the calyx; 

 staminal tube with very short teeth ; disk rather tumid at the margin 

 style thick, stigma rather deeply bilobed. In stony thickets at tha 

 left bank of the river Lutete ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 1302. 



