Hassharlia] cxv. buphoebiace^. 975 



primitive mountainous forest ; young fr. end of Dec. 1860. Native 

 name " Branco " or " Pau branco " (white wood). No. 358. 



24. CLAOXYLON Adr. Juss. ; Benth. &Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 309. 



1. C. ■WelwitscManum Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 333 

 (1864), and in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 776 (1866). 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A slender tree, 10 to 15 ft. high, or rarely 20 ft. ; 

 trunk scarcely 3 in. in diameter ; branches almost horizontally patent ; 

 branchlets with cartilaginous scales at the base ; flowers dioecious, 

 greenish. In the primitive forests of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic ; 

 fl.-bud beginning of Nov. 1855, male fl. Dec. 1855 and Jan. 1856, 

 unripe and nearly ripe fr. Jan. and Feb. 1856. No. 398. Arillode of 

 the seeds bright scarlet, viscid. Among the Qaeta mountains, pro- 

 miscuously with male individuals ; female fl. Dec. 1855, fr. Feb. 1856. 

 No. 3982). A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; head widely spreading ; branches 

 patent, whitish ; leaves membranous ; fruit geminately dicoccous ; 

 arillode scarlet. On the slopes of rather dense, forests towards the river 

 Zenza, on the right bank ; fr. March 1856. No. 397. 



2. C, angolense Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 333, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 777. 



Ptjngo Andongo. — A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, with several stems. 

 In rocky rather poor thickets near Luxillo, not plentiful ; female fl. 

 and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 399. 



3. C. pauciflorum Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 333, and in 

 DO., I.C., p. 778. 



LoANDA. — A shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high, much branched from the base ; 

 stems oblique or ascending ; branches whitish bay ; leaf-buds and 

 floral bracts cartilaginous, bay-coloured, rounded, concave ; leaves mem- 

 branous, herbaceous-green, drying blackish green like some Urticacese ; 

 flowers dioecious ; male flowers greenish ; fruit pendulous on slender 

 pedicels, didymous ; endocarp somewhat fleshy, scarlet. In somewhat 

 dry sandy hiUy places, in short grass among other shrubs, near Museque 

 de 8. Flores above Loanda to the south-west ; fl. Feb., fr. April 1854. 

 No. 400. 



4. C. Trichogyne Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., l.e., p. 334, and in 

 DC, l.e., p. 778. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A virgately branched shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; bark 

 whitish ; stipules cartilaginous. By fences in fields after the burning 

 of the forest, near Sange, rather rare ; fr. June 1855. No. 396. 



5. C. triste Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 334, and in DC, 

 la., p. 779. 



HuiLLA. — A shrublet, 1^ to 3 ft. high, branched from the base ; 

 branches erect ; leaves herbaceous-green, somewhat limp, thinly fleshy, 

 2 to 4 together proceeding from a cartilaginous sheath, shortly 

 petiolate ; flowers apparently dioecious ; fruit mostly twin, that is, 

 dicoccous, rarely monococcous by the abortion of one of the cocci, 

 as large as a peppercorn ; cocci green, bivalvular, monospermous ; seed 

 perfectly spherical, enclosed in a very bright scarlet ariUode. In rocky 

 thickets at an elevation of 5000 ft., near Humpata, rather rare ; fr. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 390. A melancholy shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 erect little trunks. In rocky elevated thickets in Morro de LopoUo ; 

 without fl. or fr. end of Jan. 1860. No. 391. 



