146 XXXVIII. CELASTRACE^. [Gi/muosporicc 



flowers and reddening fruit. In stony places along thickets near 

 Mumpulla, sporadic ; fl. and fi\ Oct. 1859. No. 1347. A small tree, 

 6 to 8 ft. high, or occasionally a shrub of 4 ft. ; stems ctespitose, with 

 straggling branches. In bushy stony hilly places between Mumpulla 

 and Nene, fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1348. 



Some of the above-mentioned specimens, represented only by barren 

 branches or otherwise, are of doubtful determination. 



Var. pumila (Wehv. ; Oliv., I.e., p. 362). 



HuiLLA. — Flowers white ; fruits scarlet-red. In bushy pastures and 

 hilly places with short herbage, on the right bank of the river LopoUo, 

 frequent ; fl. Oct. and Nov. 1859, fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 1346. 



4. Ct. euonymoides Loesener, I.e., p. 547. 



Celastrus euonymoides Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 362. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, much branched ; 

 branches twisted, even decumbent. In thin secondary woods by the 

 borders of primitive forests ; fl. June 1855. No. 1358«. A shrub or 

 small tree, with evergreen leaves ; fl. not yet seen. In dense forests 

 between Calolo and Trombeta, sparingly ; fr. Sept. 1854. Apparently 

 this species. Coll. Carp. 333. 



Zenga do Golungo. — A shrub, rarely a small tree, 7 to 8 ft. high, 

 patently branched ; fruit purplish-scarlet. In stony bushy places near 

 Calumguembo and Muchao ; fr. Sept. 1854. No. 1358i. 



5. G. lancifolia Loesener, I.e., p. 548. 



Celastrus laneifolius Thonn. in Schum. Beskr. Guin. PI. p. 132 

 (1827); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 364. C. macTophyllm Welw. ex 

 Oliv., I.e. 



Golungo Alto. — Seeds brick-red ; embryo two-thirds of the length 

 of the albumen. In damp primitive woods along the banks of the 

 river Coango, not at all common ; fl. July 1857. No. 1359&. Eipe fr. 

 beginning of May 1856. No. 1359. Coll. Carp. 327. 



The following specimen, without developed flowers extant, 

 appears to belong to this species : — 



Golungo Alto. — A low shrub, apparently evergreen ; leaves coria- 

 ceous or subcoriaceous, alternate, more acuminate than in Nos. 1359, 

 1359& ; flower-buds rather small, clustered in the axils of the leaves. 

 Rather rare, in the shaded parts of the elevated woods of Serra de 

 Alto Queta, the leaves being nearly all eaten and mutilated by insects ; 

 middle of August 1855. No. 1363. 



6. G. huillensis Loesener, I.e., p. 548; non Szysz. 



Celastrus huillensis Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 364. 



HuiLLA. — An evergreen, much-branched bush ; flowers hermaphro- 

 dite and mixed with male ones having a scarcely well-developed stigma, 

 always greenish ; stigma rather 3-lobed than 3-partite. In elevated 

 rocky parts of Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and young f r. May 1860. No. 1345. 



3. EL^ODENDRON Jacq. f . ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 367. 



1. E. aethiopicum Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 365; Oliv. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 46, t. 21 (1872). 



Cassine cethiopica Thunb. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 227 (1818); Loesener 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 552. Gymnosporia (sp.), T. Thorns. 

 in Speke, Journ., App., p. 629 (1863). 



