986 cxv. EUPHOBBiACE^. [MapToutiea- 



elevated part of Serra de Xella ; nearly ripe fr. and leaves and rather 

 young spikes, Oct. 1859. No. 401. A slender tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, 

 almost leafless when in flower (only a few branchlets then bearing 

 young leaves), branches patent. In primitive forests in Serra de 

 Xella, at an elevation from 3200 to 3800 ft., sporadic ; male fl. Oct. 

 1859. No. 4016. 



36. SAPIUM P. Browne; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 334:. 

 1. S. Mannianum. 



ExcoBcaria Manniana Muell. arg, in Flora, 1864, p. 433, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1217 (1866). 



Cazbngo. — A moderate-sized or small tree scarcely 15 ft. high, 

 densely f rondose, strongly milky ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, green and 

 very glossy above ; flowers monoecious, yellow-greenish. In rough 

 hilly places among tall bushes, on the left bank of the river Luinha, 

 near Aguas doces ; fl. and unripe fr. June 1855. No. 380. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high; trunk a foot in diameter 

 at the base ; primary branches erect-patent, the others very patent ; 

 leaves evergreen, coriaceous, glossy, biglandular at the base. At the 

 outskirts of primitive forests near Catomba in the Eastern Queta, fl, 

 and unripe fr. July 1856 ; also in the Alto Queta forests, unripe fr. 

 Aug. 1856. No. 376. 



I follow Benth. & Hook, f.. I.e., p. 335, in placing this tree in the 

 genus Sapium. 



37. EXCffiCARIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. p. 337. 

 1. E. oblongifolia Muell. arg. in Joum. Bot. ii. p. 337 (Nov. 



1864), and in DO. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1214 (1866) {Excoscwria). 



PuMGO Andongo. — An undershrub, 1-^ ft. high. In sandy thickets 

 near Luxillo ; only one specimen in fr., all the others had been burnt 

 up, Feb. 1857. No. 375. A shrublet, IJ to 2 ft. high ; stems 

 numerous from a woody rootstock, ascending, purple ; leaves 

 coriaceous ; capsule tricoccous, the cocci with two short spines or 

 appendages on the back. In thickets by roadsides near Luxillo and 

 Cazella, fr. Jan. 1857 ; also in wooded bushy places near Guinga, fr. 

 Feb. 1857. Coll. Carp. 935. 



CXVI. URTIOACEiE. 



1. URERA Gaudich. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 383. 



1. U. obovata Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 515 (1849) ; Weddell 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 97 (1869). 



Var. Jihefo. 



A shrub, 4 to 6 feet high or more, exuding a very thick watery 

 sap, climbing far and often high, often attached to its host by 

 means of a series of adventitious rootlets thrown out from the 

 stem, either beset more or less copiously with suflSciently stinging 

 hairs or nearly unarmed; stems in the living state dingy 

 purplish or greenish purple, furrowed, angular, beset with small 

 rough tubercles (the basal remains of the fallen hairs) or nearly 

 smooth, at first straight fleshy and very brittle, afterwards 



