982 cxv. MUPHORBiACE^. [MocaraTiga 



found in the market at Ambriz, having been used for wrapping up 

 Jinguba, that is, seeds of Arachis hypogcea, etc., for transport from 

 the interior ; Nov. 1853. According to the negroes who brought the 

 goods to market, the leaves grew on a tree or bush called " mugi," or 

 " muchi " (these words signify a tree) which occurs in interior elevated 

 forests. No 4516. Leaves used as wrappers for Jinguba seeds, which 

 the negroes carry from thfe interior of Angola to the markets of the 

 seacoast, towns, etc., and which belong apparently to a large tree, 

 called by the Bunda negroes " Dibala." In damp forests on the north- 

 east confines of the district of Pungo Andongo, in the Ginga kingdom ; 

 leaves seen in Sept. 1857. No. 451c. A tree, apparently small ; trunk 

 straight, beset with crowded slender horizontally spreading spines ; 

 bark whitish grey ; leaves alternate, in the young state enclosed in 

 large stipules ; the blade cordate-ovate, angular, with incumbent basal 

 lobes, narrowed and more or less emarginate-bifld at the apex, about 

 18 in. long and broad ; petioles 1 to IJ ft. long ; the trunk and 

 branches abounding in a limpid gummy sap. In damp interior forests, 

 coUectediby Monteiro, received in 1868. No. iSid. In Sept. 1857, in 

 Golungo Alto, Welwitsch met five or six hundred negroes carrying to 

 Loanda among other goods packages of Jinguba wrapped up in these 

 gigantic leaves from the most interior districts, such as Hungo and 

 Duque de Braganga. No. 461e. 



3. M. monandra Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 337, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 1012. 



Tanarius monmidrus O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 620. 



GOLUNQO Alto. — A much-branched, erect tree, 8 to 25 ft. high ; 

 head broad, frondose ; trunk slender, densely beset below with obtuse 

 quasi-truncate spines, reddish or purplish ; branches spreading ; bark 

 reddish ; habit almost of MyrsineoB ; leaves densely gland-dotted beneath, 

 deciduous at the time of the flowering ; petiole long, bright blood-red- 

 purple, often bent near the apex ; flowers apparently dioecious, the 

 female ones greenish, the male ones sought for in vain ; fruit dru- 

 paceous, pea-shaped, the unripe ones green, lepidote with dusky golden- 

 coloured scales. In the dense rather elevated primitive forests of Serra 

 de Alto Queta, not plentiful ; fl.-buds end of Oct. 1854 ; female fl. Jan. 

 end of June and July 1855 ; young fr. Feb. 1856 ; also at Zengas do 

 Queta, March 1855 ; and in secondary woods of the central Queta, 

 Zengas, end of July 1856. No. 446. 



4. M. spinosa Muell. arg. in Flora, 1864, p. 466, and in DC, I.e., 

 p. 1013. 



Tanarius spinosus O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 620. 



Golungo Alto. — A tree, 8 to 15 ft. high ; trunk slender, scarcely 

 2 in. in diameter, dusky red, beset with distant or dense straight patent 

 spines ; branches and branohlets virgate-elongated, very patent, almost 

 reflected- ascending ; the lower part of the trunk completely covered 

 with thorns about ^ to J in. long. In secondary woods at the banks of 

 the river Quango, at Arimo do Mariano, rather rare, fl.-bud Feb. 1856 ; 

 also on wooded slopes on the right bank of the same river, young fr. 

 Dec. 1855. No. 447- A small tree 6 to 8 ft. high, probably a young 

 or mutilated tree ; the erect trunk and the spreading branches and 

 even the smallest branchlets spiny throughout ; leaves membranous, 

 somewhat glossy ; petioles rosy. In wooded places among the moun- 

 tains of the central Queta, at Zengas do Queta ; without fl. or fr. June 

 1856. No. 448. A little tree 4 ft. high, probably a young tree ; trunk 



