360 LIII, MYRTACES. [Eugenia 
Hvuitia.—A dwarf shrub, 9 to 12 in. high, very gregarious, quasi- 
ceespitose ; stem erect or ascending ; flowers white ; fruit edible. On 
bushy pastures between Mumpulla and Nene, abundant ; fl. Oct. 1859. 
No. 4401. A tree, about 12 ft. high ; fruit, when ripe, as large as a 
very fine cherry, from violet-greenish to purplish, at first somewhat 
musky, soon turning sweet-sourish. In the forests of Monino ; nearly 
ripe fr. Feb. 1860. No. 4402. A small tree of 8 to 15 ft., with 
rambling branches and white flowers. In moist and also in the drier 
forests in the Monino country, in company with species of Protea, 
Erythrina, and Acacia, not uncommon ; fl. Nov. 1859, fr. Jan. 1860. 
No. 4403. 
4. E. cordata Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 438 (cordatum). 
Syzygium cordatwm Hochst. ex Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. 
Cap. ii. p. 521 (1862). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A shrub of 6 ft. or perhaps the upgrowth from 
a mutilated tree. In thickets between Luxillo and Quilanga, sparingly ; 
fr. March 1857. No. 4399. A shrub scarcely 2 ft. high with numerous 
stems, perhaps the progeny of a burnt or cut-down tree, with pellucid- 
punctate leaves (the pellucid dots rare and distant, but obvious) and 
monstrous greenish flowers ; in secondary thickets at the banks of the 
river Luxillo, near the bridge, Jan. 1857, A shrub of 4 ft., perhaps a 
mutilated tree, with whitish-greenish apparently imperfect flowers ; 
in thickets at the borders of forests near Candumba, March 1857. A 
small mutilated tree, Muta Lucala, December 1856. No. 4400. 
Huitta.—A small tree, more frequently an arborescent shrub, 6 to 
10 ft. high ; branches lax ; leaves sessile, auriculate-cordate at the base. 
Conspicuously distinct from the other plants of the order in the 
Lopollo country. In rocky situations at the base of the mountains in 
Morro de Lopollo, abundant ; fr. beginning of Feb. 1860. No. 4404. 
5. E. benguellensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 
A handsome tree, about 30 to 40 ft. high, occasionally only 
15 to 20 ft., with a broad leafy. head, glabrous ; branches sub- 
terate; bark pallid or pale-reddish; leaves opposite, oval or 
oval-oblong, rounded at both ends, sometimes somewhat emargi- 
nate at the apex, firmly coriaceous, minutely dotted, 14 to 34 in. 
long by 3 to 1} in. broad ; lateral veins numerous, not strongly 
marked, making about 45° with the midrib; petiole short, ;4, to 
zp in. long ; inflorescence cymose, terminal, 14 to 2 in. in diameter, 
many-flowered ; ultimate pedicels short; bracteoles short, deciduous; 
flowers whitish ; calyx-tube turbinate, + to } in. long ; limb 4-lobed, 
lobes rounded, spreading or reflexed, persistent ; filaments about 
3 in, long ; young fruit ellipsoidal, 3 inch long. 
Bumsgo.—In primitive forests alongside streams near Bruco, at an 
elevation of 2800 to 3000 ft. ; fl. young, fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4394. By 
the Bumbo stream, at the base of the mountains of Serra da Xella, in 
company with species of Acacia, Adina microcephala, and Sapotacee, 
abundant ; fil. Oct. 1859. No. 4395. 
6. E. urophylla Welw. ms. in Herb. 
A glabrous tree, 30 ft. high ; trunk 2 ft. in diameter at the 
base; head rather lax ; leaves elliptical, usually produced at the 
apex into a long narrow acumen, wedgeshaped at the base, firmly 
