362 LIII. MYRTACEE. [Hugenia 
8. E. Tungo Hiern, sp. n. 
A tree, 15 to 20 feet high, much branched, with a lax 
spreading head, glabrous throughout ; with the habit of a coffee ; 
branches and branchlets spreading at about 45°, whitish, the 
former subterete, the latter somewhat compressed towards the 
extremities ; leaves simple, opposite, elliptical or roundly ovate, 
more or less acuminate at the apex, and wedge-shaped or obtuse 
at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glaucous-green, glossy above, 
slightly reddish beneath (in the dry state), remarkably pellucid- 
punctate, 2 to 3 inches long by 1 to 14 in. broad ; margins entire, 
narrowly revolute ; lateral veins numerous, spreading at a wide 
angle, not conspicuous ; petiole } to 2 in. long, channelled above ; 
infructescence cymose, apparently terminal, about 2 in. long; 
ultimate pedicels very short; fruit drupaceous, oblong-obovoid, 
about an inch long, yellow-reddish or green-reddish, edible, slightly 
and agreeably acid; flesh thin ; seed solitary ; embryo large. 
Pungo AnpDoNnGo.—In wooded thickets and at the banks of the 
river Cuanza from Quitage to Quisonde, abundant, principally on the 
Calemka islands and in their vicinity ; fr. middle of March 1857. 
Called “ Tungo do Cuanza,” or “Tungu da catarata de Condo.’’ No. 
1245 and Cot, Carp. 564. 
As is very frequently the case with tropical African fruits, the 
seed is large in proportion to the size of the fruit. 
3. PETERSIA Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 721 
(Oct. 1865). 
1. P. africana Welw., /.c. ; Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 439. 
Go.tunco AxTo.—A large tree, 30 to 80 feet high, somewhat 
resembling a Barringtonia ; trunk 2 to 4 feet in diameter at the base, 
denuded of branches to the height of 20 feet ; head very leafy, spread- 
ing, depressed at the apex; leaves punctate ; calyx winged ; petals 
adhering at the base to the staminal ring ; stamens indefinite, deciduous 
with the corolla ; fruit very broadly membranous-winged, not unlike 
that of Combretacez. In primitive forests, in moist deep valleys among 
the mountains of the Eastern Queta ; f. Feb. 1855; fr. end of July 
1856. No. 4591. 
4. NAPOLEON ZA P. Beauv. ex Fr. Fischer in Mém. Soc. Nat. 
Mose. i. p. 92 (1806). 
Napoleona P, Beauv. (1810); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 723; 
non WVapoleone Rob. Voy. Louis. i. p. 355, ii. pp. 322, 441 (1807). 
1. N. imperialis P. Beauv. ex. Fr. Fischer in Mém. Soc. Nat. 
Mose. i. p. $2 (1806). 
Napoleona imperialis P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii, (pars xiii) p. 30, t. 78 
(1810) ; Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 439. Belvisia coerulea 
Desv. Journ. Bot. (Ser. 2) iv. p. 180 (1814). WV. angolensis Welw. 
Apont. p. 571 sub n. 171, p. 586 n. 25; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Ti (1869); Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc., Ser. 2, i. p. 12 (July 
5). 
GotuNnGo ALTO.—An arborescent bush, 12 to 20 ft. high, evergreen, 
resembling in its habit and glossy foliage a luxuriant Camellia, a 
really imperial ornament of the primitive forests ; trunk slender, 2 to 
