Elceodendron] xxxviii. celastraoe^. 147 



LOANDA. — An evergreen shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, branched from the 

 base ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, pallid beneath. In sandy secondary 

 thickets at Museque de Sr. Schut, above the city of Loanda, rather 

 rare ; fl. 11 Dec. 1853. No. 1276. A shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high ; stems 

 numerous, much-branched ; branchlets grey ; flowers small, whitish. 

 In stony thickets between Quicuxe and Teba; fl. and fr. April and 

 May 1854. No. 1275 ; cf. No. 6736. 



Var. pubescens Oliv. , I.e. Casshie cethiopica Th., var. b. Burkeana 

 Loesener, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A hard shrub or a young tree. In little woods composed 

 of ProteaceEe and Csesalpinie^, between Mumpulla and Nene ; in young 

 fr. Oct. 1859. No. 1269. In stony bushy places between Lopollo and 

 Nene, sparingly in fl. beginning of June 1860. No. 1270. In wooded 

 places at Mata do Monino, near Lopollo ; in flower-bud April 1860. 

 No. 1271. 



Bumbo. — An evergreen tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, with Rhamnoid habit ; 

 flowers greenish, feebly fragrant. In wooded parts of Serra da Xella ; 

 fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4615. 



4. CAMPYLOSTEMON Welw. ; Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. PI. i. p. 998. 



1. C. angolense Oliv. in Journ. Linn. See. x, p. 44 (1867); 

 Benth. & Hook, f., I.e. {Angolensis) ; Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 366. 



Cazengo and Golungo Alto. — An extensively climbing shrub, with 

 opposite long pendulous branches ; stem and branches rather verrucose- 

 rough, purplish ; leaves quite entire at the base, from the middle 

 towards the apex distantly serrate-dentate, thinly coriaceous, dark 

 green above, a little paler beneath ; midrib rather prominent, dark 

 purple in the living state ; flowers sulphur-coloured ; calyx short, 

 deeply 5-cleft, with obtuse lobes finely closely and acutely denticulate ; 

 petals 5, imbricate, rather fleshy ; disk rather thick, flat, entire, scarcely 

 angular and not sinuous at the tumid margin. In thickets along the 

 banks of the river Luinha ; fl. Dec. 1854. Also on the trees of the 

 denser forests among the mountains near Ndele-Quibonga, etc., more 

 rarely in Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. end of Dec. 1855. No. 1331. 



5. HIPPOCRATEA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 369. 



1. H. pallens Planch, ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 367. 

 Cazengo. — A shrub, arborescent at the base, climbing to a great 



height, then pendulous ; flowers white, with a slight straw-coloured 

 tinge. At the borders of primitive woods between Luinha and 

 Palmira, also near Cambondo ; fl. Jan. 1855. No. 1336. 



2. H. Welwitschii Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 367. 



Golungo Alto. — Leaves evergreen. At the borders of primitive 

 woods along the left bank of the river Coango ; fl. beginning of Dec. 

 1855, sporadic. No. 1322. In the primitive woods of Alto Queta 

 Oriental ; with nearly ripe fr. June 1856. No. 1322^. In the more 

 elevated woods of Serra de Alto Queta, with nearly ripe fr., and with 

 the leaves almost altogether destroyed ; June 1856. No. 1335. Fr 

 No. 6749 Capsules narrow, spathulate. Quapopa ; Sept. 1845 

 Coll. Cakp. 3J9. An extensively climbing shrub ; capNuIes linear 

 elliptical, 'i-valved ; valves woody, greeu-glaucescent. Capopa ; Sept. 

 Oct., and Nov. 1855. Coll. Carp. 331. 



