Briedelia] cxv. euphoebiace^. 953 



3. BRIEDELIA Willd. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 267 

 (Bridelia). 



In Pungo Andongo the natives give the name of " Cabalella " 

 to two or three arborescent species of this genus. 



1. B. atroviridis Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 327 (1864:), 

 et in DC. Prodr xv. 2, p. 494 (1866) {Bo-idelia). 



Cazengo. — A low tree, with very patent almost drooping branches 

 and distichous leaves. In the primitive forests of Mata de Cabondo ; 

 fr. June 1855. No. 3706. , 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree, 10 ft. high, almost calling to mind 

 the coffee tree ; branches patent, almost nodding ; leaves ^rk, deep- 

 green above, shaded with purple and especially on the veins reddish 

 beneath ; flowers from greenish to reddish. In bushy places in 

 secondary woods near Camilungo, between it and Sange, rather rare ; 

 fl. Dec. 1855. No. 370. 



2. B. tenuifolia Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 328, et in 

 DC, I.e., p. 495 {Bridelia). 



Zenza de Golungo. — A much-branched shrub of 5 to 6 ft., or in 

 secondary thickets 1^ to 2 ft. high ; berries pruinose-bluish, nearly 

 black. On dry hills near Tanderaxique ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. A 

 shrub, 2J to 4 ft. high ; stems numerous, erect ; bark whitish grey ; 

 sap watery ; branches and branchlets slender, patent ; leaves mem- 

 branous, somewhat rigid, shining above, pallid beneath, deciduous at 

 the time of the fruit ; drupes sessile, clustered in the axils of the 

 leaves, blackish blue, with a viscid juice ; pyrenes 2, monospermous. 

 In dry elevated hiUy bushy places near Quicanga, very plentiful ; fl. 

 and ripe fr. Sept. 1857. No. 374. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, 6 to 10 ft. high, with a much- 

 branched head ; branches divaricate ; branchlets slender, somewhat 

 drooping ; flowers yellow-greenish. In thickets close to the Ambaca 

 road, between Camilungo and Cabinda ; fl. and young as well as ripe 

 fr. March 1855. No. 373. A shrub 3 ft. high, perhaps a mutilated 

 tree. On the road to Ambaca ; without fl. or fr. Deo. 1855. No. 370c. 



3. B. angolensis Welw. ex Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 327. 

 Bridelia angolensis Muell. arg. in DC, I.e., p. 496. 



Pungo Andongo. — A small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; trunk 4 to 8 

 in. in diameter at the base, bare to the height of 6 to 7 ft., then with 

 crowded branches, branchlets and foliage; leaves hard-coriaceous, rigid, 

 but little glossy, distichous ; male flowers axUlary, clustered, at length 

 by the f aUing of the leaves subspicate or paniculate, greenish in the 

 bud and when young, the adult ones purplish outside and yellowish 

 inside. In rather elevated little woods on the gigantic rocks above 

 Catete in the prEesidium, sporadic. A young shoot of a tree which 

 had been cut down on the same spot. In fl. beginning of Jan. 1857. 

 No. 367. 



4. B. elegans Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 327, et in DC, 

 I.e., p. 496 {Bndelia). 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 5 ft. high and more, occasionally arborescent ; 

 branches elongated, patent ; branchlets virgate ; leaves rigid, rather , 

 distant, with red veins beneath. In wooded thickets around Humpata ; 

 fl. Jan. 1860. No. 361. 



Scarcely distinct from B. scandens Willd., from which Welwitsch 



