Terminalia| LII, COMBRETACEA. 339 
Pungo ANDoNGO,—In dry thin open woods near Caghuy ; fl. Nov. 
1856, fr. May 1857. No. 4286. A tree of 12 to 20 ft., occurring 
throughout Angola, with very hard and durable wood, and known by 
the name of “ Mueia,” wonderfully variable as to the indumentum of 
its branchlets foliage and inflorescence ; flowering branches, petioles, 
rachis of the racemes, and calyx usually pubescent-hirsute ; petioles 
not exceeding 4 to $ in. long, sometimes almost obsolete ; leaves when 
old mostly more or less glabrate or thinly puberulous, almost always 
oblong-oblanceolate, always deep-green above, canescent or whitish- 
glaucous with midrib purplish beneath ; flowers white, arranged in 
simple racemes shorter than the leaves ; stamens 10; drupes 1} to 14 in. 
long, borne on a stipes of 3 to j in. long, and surrounded with a rather 
rigid wing elliptical in outline and more or less emarginate at the apex, 
thinly tomentellous or pubescent on the surface. Abundant, on rocky 
hills and at the borders of forests near the fortress ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. 
No. 4340. A moderate-sized tree with a narrow head, and affording 
excellent timber ; flowers white. In open rocky woods near Caghuy ; 
fl. Nov. and Dec, 1856. No. 4341. An evergreen tree, 15 to 20 ft. 
high. In the thickets of the fortress near the river Luxillo ; fr. May 
1857. No. 4342. 
Hourtia.—A small tree of 8 to 12 ft.; branches and branchlets 
sparse, deep-purple, glabrous ; leaves alternate, subsessile, oblanceolate, 
apiculate, glabrous on both sides, bright-green above, glaucous beneath. 
In hilly tall-bushy places between Lopollo and Humpaia, at 5000 to 
5500 feet altitude ; fr. end of May 1860; a glabrate form. Nos. 4285 
and 4343. Cou, Carp. 59. 
Var. huillensis. 
Foliage pallid, clothed on both sides with appressed incon- 
spicuous pubescence. 
Houiitia.—A small tree, of a grey colour, with pallid head and white 
flowers. In hilly, bushy, somewhat stony, dry and barren situations 
between Lopollo and Nene, at an elevation of 5000 ft. ; fl. Dec. 1859, 
young fr. Feb. 1860. Nos. 4294 and 4338. 
The mueia (pronounced mu-ei-a) has a trunk rarely exceeding 18 in. 
diameter ; the wood is compact, of tolerably fine grain, yellowish 
colour and great hardness, and suitable for the construction of various 
agricultural implements, carts, and domestic utensils. See Welwitsch, 
Apont. p. 568 under n. 164, and Synopse, p. 18, n. 45. 
3. T. benguellensis Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 
An inelegant shrub, sub-arborescent, 4 to 6 ft. high or 
occasionally higher, remarkable for the hardness of its wood and 
rigidity of its ramifications; branches virgate, subterete, glabrate 
below, shortly pubescent or felted above, the older ones sub- 
spinescent in consequence of the stiff pin-like character of the 
patent alternate lateral branchlets, which are leafy in a fasciculate 
manner at the apex; indumentum pallid; leaves alternate 
scattered or mostly crowded at the tips of the branchlets, obovate, 
rounded and often apiculate or emarginate at the apex, more or 
less wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous, deep-green and 
glabrescent or obsoletely tomentellous above, pallid and felted 
beneath, entire, 1 to 23 in. long by 4 to 13 in. broad; petiole 
2 to 4 in. long, hairy or subglabrate; inflorescence in the axils 
of the uppermost leaves; fruits racemose, bright blood-red, oval- 
