174 XLi. SAPiNDACEyE. [Bersania 



10 July 1856 ; mountains of Queta Oriental, without fl. or fr. May 1856. 



No. 1697. 



The following is very doubtfully referred here : — 



GoLrxGO Alto. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; leaves piperoid, -with 



a long and acute acumen ; seeds black, with a scarlet aril ; Capopa, fr. 



June 1855. Coll. Carp. 347. 



3. B. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A shrub of 5 ft. or perhaps the fresh shoot of a burnt tree, 

 glabrous except the young part and inflorescence ; branchlets 

 leafy towards the apex, fistulose ; leaves alternate, exstipulate, 

 usually impari-pinnate, 5- to 10-jugate, 12 to 18 in. long ; common 

 petiole 1| to 3 in. ; rachis slightly winged towards the apex ; 

 leaflets ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate and apiculate at 

 the apex, obtuse or unequally narrowed (or the terminal one 

 wedge-shaped) at the base, nearly entire or along the upper part 

 sharply toothed, thinly coriaceous, 2| to 5 in. long by | to 2 in. 

 broad ; inflorescence subterminal, spicate-thyrsoid, 3 to 6 in. long, 

 more or less tawny-hairy, measuring together with the peduncle 

 9 to 12 in. long; pedicels ranging up to | in.; bracteoles linear, 

 numerous, about g in. long ; sepals 4, imbricate, one of them bi- 

 dentate at the apex ; petals 5, reflexed ; stamens 5, two of the 

 filaments connate above the base for a short distance, the rest free ; 

 fruit ^ in. long. 



PuxGO Andongo. — In secondary thickets, near Luxillo, sporadic ; 

 fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 1698. 



XLII. ANACARDIACE^. 



The Angolan species chiefly consist of several species of Bhus 

 and Calesiam and of Sjiondias and its allies, one of which latter 

 furnishes edible fruits resembling the Uva ferral, a black grape, in 

 shape and colour, but not very well tasted ; a Sj^ondias which also 

 affords edible fruit is very common, both wild and cultivated ; the 

 Cashew nut and the Mango are generally cultivated, but the 

 latter is not much grown in the highlands. 

 1. MANGIFERA Burman; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 420. 



1. M. indica L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 200 (1753) ; OHv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 442 ; Engler in DO. Monogr. Phanerog. iv. p. 198, t. iv. 

 fig. 10-12 (1883). 



LOANDA. — With fully developed leaves, flowers and fruits, Dec. 1853, 

 at S. Antonio do Bengo. No. 4432. At Quifandongo, fl. Sept. 1854. 

 No. 4434. Cultivated hj the river Bengo, fr. Feb. 1860 ; the seed (in 

 the study set) measures If in. in length, g in. in breadth, and ^ in. in 

 thickness. Coll. Carp. 357. Loanda ; seed, Jan. 1858. No. 4431&. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — A handsome tree ; head ovoid, veiy dense ; leaves 

 coriaceous, rigid, glossy ; flowers yellowish ; fruit as large as a man's 

 fist, orange-colourod outside as well as the very delicious pulp. Fi-e- 

 quently cultivated by the river Bengo (Zenza), fl. Sept., fr. Dec. and 

 June ; the skin of the root, which is very astringent and slightly 

 aromatic, is occasionally used in thd treatment of diarrhoea and 

 dysentery ; at Camutamba, fl. Sept. 1857. No. 4433. 



