134 XXXIV. MELiACE^. [TrichUia 



Serra de Alto Queta, fl. March 1855. No. 1308. A tree, 25 to 38 ft. high ; 

 trunk straight ; timber good but not durable. Native name " Pd,o 

 Caxique" (Mafura). Occasional, near streams, in the wooded parts of 

 Serra de Alto Queta, in the same locality as No. 1308 ; without either 

 fl. or fr. Dec. 1854. No. 1308&. 



4. T. emetica Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 31 (1790); Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 335 ; C. DC. in DC, I.e., p. 660. 



Mozambique. — Seeds. Coll. Carp. 316. 



5, T. grandifolia Oliv., I.e., p. 335. T. grcmdiflora C. DO. in 

 DC, I.e., p. 674. 



Island of St. Thomas. — A small tree, in the elevated forests of 

 the island ; seeds, Dec. 1860. Coll. Carp. 314. 



The absence of other parts of the plant renders the determination 

 very doubtful. 



7. CARAPA Aubl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 338. 



1. C. procera DO. Prodr. i. p. 626 (1824) ; 0. DC in DC 

 Monogr. Phanerog. i. p. 716 (1878). 



C. guyanensis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 336, non C. guianensis 

 Aubl. ^Ze 0. DC, I.e. Carapa (sp.), Welw. Synopse, p. 11, n. 22. 

 Meliacea, Welw., I.e., p. 13, n. 30. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A very elegant palm-shaped tree, 15 to 35 ft. high, 

 with a trunk 1 to 2J ft. diam. at the base, and in dense primitive 

 woods attaining 50 ft., with trunk 3| ft. diam. ; branches spreading, 

 long, curving upwards, naked below, towards the apex of the tree 

 arranged in a candelabra-form and there crowded ascending bearing 

 fascicles of leaves and flowering cymes ; leaves gigantic, abruptly 

 pinnate, 5-10-jugate, horizontally spreading, other leaves nodding as in 

 palms ; leaflets ;^ to 1 ft. long, thinly coriaceous, very glossy, paler 

 beneath ; inflorescence purple throughout ; thyrses or panicles com- 

 pound, often 2 ft. long, terminal ; flowers coriaceous, whitish-rose, 

 when less open greenish ; calyx-segments 5, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous- 

 fleshy, concave, turning red, overlapping a little, much shorter than the 

 petals ; petals 5, broadly ovate-oblong, narrowed at the base into a 

 short claw, of the same consistence as the calyx, dark red, spreading at 

 the time of flowering, soon reflexed ; stamens monadelphous, combined 

 into a whitish rather fleshy cup-shaped cylindrical tube 10-lobed at the 

 apex, inserted around the base of the epigynous also cup-shaped but 

 shorter disk ; anthers 10, inserted between the lobes of the staminal 

 tube, subsessile ; ovary superior ; style thick, conical, compressed 

 towards the apex ; stigma waxy-fleshy, tenacious, chestnut-brown, 

 large, orbicular-peltate, with more or less reflexed margin ; fruit sub- 

 globose, size of a man's fist, 5-costate, pyramidally acuminate at the^ 

 apex ; seeds in size and colour like those of Edioardia JarkJa Raf., 

 tawny-red, rough. Timber strong, durable, taking an excellent polish, 

 but consequently difficult to work. Certain individual trees appear 

 never to bear fruit. Native name " Muca^a-Ncumbi," " Mukassan- 

 kumbi," or " M-casa encumbi." In dense primitive and secondary 

 woods of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, at the margins of 

 streams, from Undelle to Camilungo, sporadic ; fl. August, Sept. and 

 Dec. 1854 and beginning of August 1855, fr. Sept. 1855. No. 1307- 



Not seen by Welwitsch in the littoral regions of Angola, but reported 

 by him also from the districts of Cazengo, Dembos, Alto Dande, etc. 



