972 , cxv. EUPHOEBiACEiE. [BiciTiodend/ron 



white and even in grain like that of a Tilia and used for the same 

 purposes ; bark of the branches and upper part of the trunk bright 

 herbaceous-green, smooth, deeply furrowed, thin, patent, crowded 

 at the top of the trunk ; leaves palmate ; leaflets 5 to 7, peltately 

 arranged ; petiole very long, bi-stipulate at the base ; stipules lateral, 

 large, uniform, crest-like, digitately laoiniate, or deeply dentate- 

 fimbriate on the margin, spreading horizontally, semi-amplexicaul ; 

 flowers dioecious, lightly paniculate, the whole inflorescence from 

 dusky to yellowish tomentose ; corolla of the male flowers yellowish ; 

 glands among the stamens 5, large. Sap thin, and of nearly every 

 part greenish- watery and viscid ; at length when dry forming a brown 

 resin. In the elevated primitive forests of Serra de Alto Queta, in 

 the Sobatos of Bumba and Banga Aquitamba and near Banza de 

 Bumba, sporadic : without fl. June 1855 ; with fl. 22 Oct. 1855. 

 No. 443. 



Cazengo. — A tree, 20 to 40 ft. high ; head widely spreading ; wood 

 whitish, like that of Tilia ; leaves 5- to 7-cleft ; flowers dioecious. By 

 a road ; fr. June 1855. Ooll. Cakp. 931. 



Negro name " Munguella." 



The following No. perhaps belongs here; the negroes of the 

 district also call it " Munguella " : — 



Cazengo. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high ; trunk bare for a long distance 

 from below, loosely branched at the apex ; branches patent-erect, 

 elongated, leafless at the base, furnished towards the apex with long- 

 stalked leaves ; leaflets (in one case) 7, elliptical-oblong, cuspidate at 

 the apex, wedgeshaped to the sessile base, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, 

 deep green and somewhat glossy above, paler beneath, entire or with 

 a few mostly obsolete glandlike teeth on the margin, peltately placed 

 on the petioles, the largest nearly a foot long by 3^ in. broad ; petioles 

 ranging up to 2^ ft. long, deeply furrowed, glabrous. In the more 

 elevated dense primitive foreste of Serra de Muxaftla ; without fl. or 

 fr. June 1855. No. 444. 



19. MANNIOPHYTON MueU. arg.; 3enth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 297. 



AnisochlamysWeVw- ©x MueU. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 332 (1864). 



1. M. fulvuin MueU. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., and in DC. Prodr. 

 XV. 2, p. 720 (1866). 



Ardsochlamyspolymorpha Welw. ex Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., l.c. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub climbing among other shrubs, with 

 sarmentose branches, 12 to 20 ft. long, beset with straight rigid 

 horizontally spreading stinging hairs ; sap watery; leaves very variable 

 in shape ; flowers dioecious. Calyx of the male flowers bifid or trifid, 

 the lobes irregular and obsoletely 1- to 2-toothed at the apex ; corolla 

 from' whitish to yellowish, cyathiform-campanulate, irregularly den- 

 ticulate at the mouth, inserted at the bottom of the calyx, strictly 

 gamopetalous; stamens more than 12, inserted without order on the 

 thin glandular disk which is hispidulous on the margin, as long as the 

 corolla; anthers cordate, introrse, bUocular, dehiscing longitudinally, 

 exserted or subexserted, yellowish ; rudiments of the ovary 0. Calyx 

 of the female flower regularly 5-toothed, almost 5-lobed, the teeth 

 acute ; petals 5, obovate, yellow-greenish, inserted at the outer ba se 

 of the glandular thin disk, larger and longer than the calyx, paten t 

 at the time of the flowering ; ovary sessile on the disk, hispid ; styles 

 arching-patent, stigmatose at the apex. In the dense primitive forests 



