Croton] CXV. BUPHOEBIACEiE. 971 



in Oct. 1855, when the leaves had already begun to wither and the 

 krge lower leaves had all fallen. No. 4A5. A small tree, 7 to 8 ft. 

 high ; trunk 4 in. in diameter ; leaves membranous, rather rigid ; 

 flowers white, very caducous. In secondary thickets on the right bank 

 of the river Quango, behind Rodrigo's cubata ; male fl. beginning of 

 Jan. 1856. Also young branches or trunks of a burnt tree, 6 ft. high; 

 all the lower leaves very large and as well as the stem lepidote-branny ; 

 in a " varzea " (moist meadow) in the same locality; sterile fl. Feb. 1856. 

 No. 345. A robust shrub, perhaps a tree ; branches long, ascending ; 

 lower leaves very large; flowers white. In secondary thickets of 

 declivities close to the banks of the river Cnango ; fl. beginning of 

 March 1856. No. 3476. 



On the leaves of this tree grew the Fungus n. 77, Exosporium celatum 

 A. L. Sm. in Joum. Bot. xxxvi. p. 179 (1898) =Sporidesmium celatum 

 Welw. and Curr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 292 (1868). 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — An undershrub or a shrub, subsequently burnt 

 down. Below Rodrigo's house ; leaves only. No. 6731. 



4. C. oxypetalus Muell. arg. in Joum. Bot., I.e., p. 339, and 

 in DC, I.C., p. 543. 



PUNGO Andongo.— A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; head broadly frondose, 

 widely spreading, hemispherical, depressed at the top ; leaves of full- 

 grown trees sulphur-yellow beneath ; flowers monoecious, yellowish. 

 In rather dense forests inMata de Cabondo in the praesidium, sporadic; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1856 to March 1857. Native name "Mubango de 

 Cabondo." No. 346. 



5. C. pyrifolius Muell. arg. in Joum. Bot., I.e., p. 338, and in 

 DC, I.C., p. 550. 



GrOLTTNGO Alto. — A broadly frondose tree, 20 ft. high ; trunk 

 1^ ft. in diameter at the base ; flowers monoecious, white ; habit like 

 a poplar's. In forests at the river Quiapoze in Sobato de Mnssengue, 

 fl. beginning of Jan. 1866 ; and at Bumba de Bango, fl. beginning of 

 Jan. 1856 ; also in rather elevated dense primitive forests at the 

 Capopa spring near Sange, Jan. to March 1856. This tree prefers the 

 densest forests ; the native name is " Mubango ih, muxito." No. 344. 



The Fungus n. 412 grew on the small trunk of a Croton (perhaps 

 this species) in Mata de Quibanga in Jan. 1855. 



6. C. angolensis Muell. arg. in Joum. Bot., I.e., p. 339, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 602. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high ; branches virgate, 

 spreading, leafy towards the apex. Seen only in the shady wooded 

 part of Mata de Pungo, near Pungo Andongo ; one individual, with 

 very few flowering shoots ; male fl. Jan. 1857. No. 392. 



18. EICINODENDRON MueU. arg. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 297. 



1. R. africanum Muell. arg. in Flora 1864, p. 533 (9 Nov.) and 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1111 (1866) {africanus) ; Ficalho, PI. 

 TJteis, p. 251 (1884). 



Golungo Alto. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, or rarely more, with its 

 trunk straight, and from its base to two-thirds of its height divested 

 of branches, somewhat resembling a large Carica Papaya L. ; wood 



