966 CXV. EUPHOEBIACE.E. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A shrub 2 or 3 ft. high or perhaps a young tree. 

 By the Ambaca road, without fl. or fr., Febr. 1855. No. 6706 c. 



13. HYMENOCARDIA Wall.; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. Pl.iii. p. 285- 



1. H. acida Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, xv. p. 256 (1851) ; 

 MueU. arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 477 (1866) ; Oliv. & Grant in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 145, t. 94 (1875). 



Ambaca.— A much branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; stems erect ; 

 branches patent, as well as the branchlets brickred-pulverulent ; leaves 

 membranous, yellowish-lepidote beneath, the adult ones coriaceous ; 

 flowers dioecious. By thickets between N-gombe and Puri Cacarambola, 

 sparingly ; fl. and unripe fr. Oct. 1856. No. 414. A patently branched 

 ^ub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; stems numerous ; leaves glossy, somewhat fl:eshy 

 and rigid, subglaucescent ; fruit samaroid, oboordate, flatly compressed, 

 purplish; styles 2. At the same place as the last No. ; ripe fr. Oct. 



1856. No. 4146. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, 5 to 6 or occasionally only 3 ft. high ; 

 branches and branchlets rigid, very hard ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, 

 hard, glandular-punctate beneath ; fruit rosy-greenish-yellowish or 

 rosy-purple. In thickets at the banks of the river LuxUlo ; f r. Feb. 



1857. No. 413. 



HuiLLA. — A small, tortuously branched tree of 6 to 10 ft. or usually 

 a shrub 5 ft. high ; leaves glandular-punctate beneath. In rather open 

 woods among shrubs, at the Lopollo cataract, between Lopollo and 

 Monino, in company with Sapindaceee (Dodoncea viscosa Jacq. ; Welw. 

 herb. no. 1692) and Myrtacese (of. Eugenia guineensis, var. huillensis ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 4402) ; also in the Proteaceous forests of the Monino ; 

 fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 4126. A shrub as tall as a man, 

 occasionally arborescent and 8 ft. high ; branches divaricate ; leaves 

 clothed beneath with sulphur or safEron-coloured glands ; flowers 

 reddish. In elevated rocl^ places in Morro de Lopollo on the high 

 plateau of Huilla towards Nene ; male fl. Feb. 1860. No. 412. 



At Malange it is called " Mupeixe "; see Bol. Soc. Brot. xvi. p. 55 

 (1899). 



2. H. ulmoides Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. xii. p. 29, 1. 1131 (1873) ; 

 Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 5, fig. 19, A — C 

 (p. 29) (1890). 



GoLtTNGO Alto. — A tree 20 to 30 ft. high, at times only a shrub of 

 3 to 8 ft. ; trunk 12 to 16 in. in diameter at the base, straight ; head 

 widely spreading ; habit hke an ehn or Myrtaceous ; flowers dioecious ; 

 female flowers reddish, apetalons ; calyx deeply 5-partite, almost 

 5-sepalous ; the segments lanceolate, sometimes entire and acute, in 

 other oases with two of them bUobed almost to the middle and broader 

 than the rest ; ovary flattened, bilocular, the cells bi-ovulate, the ovules 

 pendulous from the apex of the cells ; styles 2, elongated, diverging ; 

 fruit samaroid, lyrate, with a deep narrow incision at the apex, 

 emarginate with the angle rounded and the rounded lobes incumbent 

 at the apex, reddish or rosy greenish in the living state ; seeds i in. 

 long, black ; testa minutely wrinkled ; embryo straight, i in. long ; 

 cotyledons thinly membranous, whitish, elongate-ovate, obtuse, tri- 

 nerved at the base, the lateral nerves short, the intermediate nerve 

 running the whole length of the lamina ; radicle cylindrical, clavate, 

 half as long as the cotyledons or a little shorter ; albumen somewhat 

 horny. In the less dense primitive forests at the banks of the river 



