Dichapetalum] xxxv. dichapetalace^. 137 



ovate or lanceolate, rather hairy outside, unequal, erect ; petals 5, 

 spathulate, glabrous, with a long claw, erect ; blade deeply bifid ; 

 stamens 5, equalling the petals ; filaments rather tapering upwards ; 

 anthers 5, small ; style as long as the filaments, 3-lobed at the apex, 

 glabrous ; ovary mostly inferior, hairy at the apex, small. In the very 

 dense more elevated primitive woods of Sobato de Quilombo-Quia- 

 catubia, but rather rarely met with (also in Quisuculo) ; fl. April 1856. 

 No. 4662. In the primitive woods of Serra de Alto Queta ; in flower- 

 bud, May 1856. No. 469. 



2. D. umbellatum Chodat, I.e., p. 671. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tall and widely climbing shrub with very long 

 rambling branches, gracefully pendulous from lofty trees ; branchlets 

 patent, covered with a short velvety ferruginous tomentum ; leaves 

 oval, cuspidate or emarginate, unequally cordjite or subcordate at the 

 base, thinly coriaceous, rather harshly velvety with feiTuginous hairs 

 especially beneath when young, at length nearly glabrous above and 

 scattered with short hispid hairs along the midrib nerves and net- veins 

 beneath, otherwise of nearly the same colour on both surfaces, 2 to 6 

 by 1 to 3 in.; margin rather undulated or subrepand ; petiole short, not 

 exceeding | in., shortly and closely hairy ; stipules subulate, equalling 

 or rather exceeding the petiole, deciduous ; flowers clustered, many 

 together, subsessile, in axillary and subterminal pedunculate beads, 

 milk-white with a tinge of blue ; common peduncle ranging up to 

 nearly 1 in. long, subtomentose ; calyx-lobes ovate ; petals exceeding 

 the calyx, with a long claw ; filaments long ; ovary mostly superior. 

 Fruit not known. In very dense primitive woods, at Capopa ; in 

 scarce fl. March 1855. No. 4651. In the more elevated woods near 

 Capopa ; fl. Nov. and Dec. 1855. No. 4852. Frequent, in the more 

 elevated woods, near Capopa ; fl. Feb. 1856, not fruiting in that year. 

 No. 4653. Capopa ; in flower-bud, August 1856. No. 4654. 



3. D. angolense Chodat, I.e., p. 672. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing widely and to a consider- 

 able height, afterwards pendulous ; branches spreading, glabrescent ; 

 branchlets patent, covered with a tawny curly tomentum ; leaves more 

 or less obliquely elliptical, acuminate, unequally cordate or subcordate 

 at the base, softly coriaceous, dark-green rather glossy and glabrescent 

 or puberulous above, paler and sub-tomentose beneath, 2h to 7 by 

 1^ to 3 in.; midrib lateral nerves and net-veins clearly marked on the 

 lower surface ; petiole ^ to j in. or those associated with the inflorescence 

 longer ; stipules caducous, subulate ; inflorescence densely paniculate, 

 many-flowered, laxer in fruit, sub-corymbose, 1 to 2 in. long in flower, 

 ranging up to 4 in. in fruit ; peduncle inserted on or adnate to the 

 petiole of a leaf starting from near its apex ; flowers small, shortly 

 pedicellate ; calyx-segments oval, obtuse, about iV in. long, tomentose 

 outside, glabrous inside ; petals obovate-oblong, glabrous, not much 

 exceeding the calyx, bilobed, not clawed ; anthers 5 ; ovary densely 

 hairy, superior ; style slender like the filaments, glabrous ; stigma 

 small, 3-lobed ; fruits numerous, sub-globose, pulpy, | in. diam. or 

 rather larger, grey-tawny-tomentose, 2-3-celled ; cells 1-seeded : pulp 

 viscid ; seeds attached along a long narrow surface on the inner side 

 at and adjoining the apex ; cotyledons thick, applied together along an 

 angular surface : radicle minute, superior. In the primitive woods of 

 the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta in companj^ with Napnleona 

 (Welw. Herb. 4592) and Tetracera ahvfolla Willd. (Welw. Herb. 

 1203); fr. end of April 1856. No. 4664. 



