Tamarindus] xliv. leguminos.e. 303^ 



Cazengo. — Not uncommonly cultivated along the banks of the rivers 

 Luinha and Lucala, and occasionally spontaneous ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854 

 and Jan. 1855. No. 565. 



Island of St. Thomas.— In fl. Dec. 1860. No. 566. 



7G. COPAIBA Mill. Gard. Diet., edit. 7 (1759). CopaivaSa^c^i. 

 Enum. PI. Carib. p. 4 (1 760). Cojxiifera L. (1762), Benth. & Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. i. p. 585. 



1. C. Mopane 0. Kuntze, Pvev. Gen. PL i. p. 172 (1891). 



GojJciiferal Mojmne Kirk ex Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 

 p. 317, t. xliii. A. (1865); Benth. k Hook, f., I.e. ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. ii. p. 315; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 163 (1884). 



Bumbo. — A handsome tree, with the habit of B<iuliin'K( ; wood 

 excellent ; resin coloured blood-red and called "' Sangue de Drago 

 false." Abundant and constituting extensive forests in rocky moun- 

 tainous places about the base of Serra da Xella, in company with 

 Tamarix orientaUs Forsk. (Welw. No. 1086?;), Garc'niki (mqolcns/n Ye^q. 

 (Welw. No. 1048), Acachi (iraUra Willd. (Welw. No. 1827), and the 

 fungus n. 488 ; near Bumbo in young leaf Oct. 1859. No. 605. A tree, 

 15 to 50 ft. high, easily distinguished by the shape of its leaves, the cha- 

 racter of its resin, and its resinous-glandular seeds ; at Quitibe between 

 Bumbo and Maiombo, not seen in tl.; fr. beginning of June 18()0. 

 Native name " M-tuate," " Unteate," " Umteate," or " Mutuate." 

 Coll. Cakp. 93, 500 and 501. A large tree from Bumbo, Gambos, 

 and Humba. Called " Umfatido " ; fr. given by Seer. Mendon9a July 

 1859. Coll. Cakp. 502. Cf. Coll. Cakp. 13. 



77. CYNOMETRA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 586. 



1. C. laxiflora Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 318 (1865); 

 Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 300 (1866) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 318; Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 164 (1884). 



Baphial (sp.), Welw. Synopse, p. 12, under n. 23. 



A handsome tree, 25 to 40 ft. high ; trunk very straight, 1 to 

 2| ft. diam. at the base ; wood whitish towards the circumference 

 of the stem, of a more or less blood-red colour in the centre, very 

 strong, of fine grain, heavy, durable, very useful, taking an excel- 

 lent polish ; the older the trunk the broader and redder are the 

 veins in the centre ; branches more or less fastigiate ; branchlets 

 almost nodding. Flowers of a whitish-rose colour, almost Poly- 

 galaceous and suggesting Securidaca ; bracts rose-coloui-ed when 

 young, milk-w^hite in the adult state. In moderate frequency 

 along the borders of the mountains of Alto Queta in the district 

 of Golungo Alto and of Muxaulo in the district of Cazengo, never- 

 theless also occurring on the elevated plains of Ambaca and of 

 Pungo Andongo. Some Portuguese colonists call this tree " Taenia 

 falsa." (See Welwitsch, Synopse, p. 11, n. 23.) 



Golungo Alto. — Amongst the elevated mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, forming dense woods in Mata de Mangas ; fl. beginning of Nov. 

 1855. Native name "Hula" ; called also " Pao Taenia" and " Qui- 

 bilibili," but it is not the Taenia of the Portuguese. No. 561. In the 

 elevated woods of Cungulungulo or Montalegro ; fl. Feb. and April, 



