280 DR. F. WELWITSCH AND MR. F. CURREY'S FUNGI ANGOLENSES. 



Hah. Ad axillas raraulorum arboris e familia Artocarpacearum juxta ripas fluvii Coango, Golungo alto, 



Decern!) lsr>5. No. 79. 



This plant somewhat resembles X. hypoxy.lon, var. uviformis, Mont. ; but the perithecia 

 are fewer, and the sporiclia much larger. 



Tab. 17. fig. 24, two specimens, x about 6 diameters ; fig. 25, sporidia, x 420 diam. 



\;. arkxicola, Welw. & Curr. Stipite fragili, elongato, nigro-fusco, profunde sepulto, 



1-3 unc. longo ; capite fusco, maculato, ostiolis minutis nigris scabro, |—J uncia? 

 longo, conico vel subcylindrico, apicem versus acumiuato vel rotundato, aliquando 

 leviter curvato ; peritheciis nigris, subglobosis ; sporidiis minutis, nigro-f uscis, cynibi- 

 formibus, 0*0002 uncial longis. 



Hub. Ad tcrram sabulosam humidam prope Cazella, Pungo Andongo, 2400-3800 ped. elevat., Januario 



1857. No. 92. 



Tab. 17. figs. 5 & 6, two plants, very slightly magnified, so as to show the ostiola, which are hardly 



visible without a lens. 



X. aphrodisiac a, Welw. & Curr. Csespitosa, clavulis subcylindricis, 1-2 unc. altis, fusco- 



cinereis, tota superficie inordinate areolatis; medulla centrali albissima; perithe- 

 ens ? Basis communis tomento fusco delicato vestitur. 



Hub. Rarior ; in silvis primitivis densis ad truncos diu putrefactos, juxta rivum Delamboa, distr. Golungo 



alto, Januario 1856. No. 102. 



Obs. The plant is considered an aphrodisiac by the negros. 



Tab. 18. figs. 3 & 1, plants, natural size. 



X. variabilis, Welw. & Curr. Simplex vel ramosa, 2-6 unc. longa, fuliginoso-atra, 



peritheciis ? 



Hub. Sparse ad truncos vetustos dejectos cariosos in silvis primitivis de Quisucula prope Bango, Golungo 

 alto, Februario 1855. No. 104. 



Obs, The specimens are barren. The inner tissue collapses in drying (as is the case 

 with many Xylana), leaving the bark (so to speak) in the form of a brittle detached 

 integument. 



Tab. 18. fig. 7, plants, natural size. 



Some 



X. hypoxylon, Fr. 



Several specimens of this species were collected in different localities, 

 little doubtful, as they exhibit no fruit. 

 No. 87. Ad truncos vetustos prope « Caverna de Salitre " in Sobado de Mussengue 



( jolungo alto, Maio 1855. 



Junio ^ dtnmc0S emort ™s in silvis primitivis montium de Muxaula, distr. Cazengo 



