1006 cxvii. HORACES. [Ficus 



13. F. psilopoga Welw. ex Ficalho, I.e., p. 270, and ex Warb., 

 I.e., p. 164. 



Of. F. ohlamydodora Warb., I.e., pp. 163, 164; Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr., C, p. 161, t. 8. fig. A-F (1895). 



Barea do Dande. — Aerial roots turning a blood-red colour, juicy, 

 largely used by the natives as a styptic medicine. Trees were seen 

 in some instances in fruit with foliage, in others in fruit without 

 foliage, and in others again in leaf without flower or fruit, all these 

 cases in the same place and at the same time, Nov. 1853. No. 6352 

 partly. 



LoANDA. — Cultivated in the public walks at Loanda ; fr. May 1854'. 

 No. 6352 partly. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A handsome evergreen tree, 30 to 60 ft. high ; 

 head broad, ovoid-oblong ; branches patent, throwing out very crowded 

 aerial roots which hang down vertically and when they reach the 

 ground take root and give rise to fresh trunks, the latter at length 

 attaching themselves in an arching manner to the mother plant ; 

 receptacles turning red, equalling small cherries in size, eaten ^y the 

 negroes. In primitive forests throughout the wooded mountainous 

 districts ; among the Alto Queta mountains ; fl. and fr. May 1856. 

 No. 6352 partly. An extensive tree, with long red beards, that is, 

 furnished with reddening aerial roots issuing from the lower side of 

 the branches ; leaves coriaceous, shining, sometimes deciduous, some- 

 times evergreen ; receptacles 2 or 3 together, sessile, turning 

 red, equal to large peas in size, At the outskirts of forests, about 

 vUlages, etc. ; fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 6351. A tree, 25 to 35 ft. 

 high ; head ample ; trunk angular below, straight, furnished with red 

 beards ; leaves thickly coriaceous, very highly shining, with red 

 midribs ; receptacles like cherries in size and shape, turning red, soft ; 

 pulp viscid ; seeds numerous. In the primitive forests of Bango and 

 Quilombo, also in Sobato de Bumba ; fl. and fr. beginning of Nov. 

 1855. No. 6349. 



Ambaca. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, exuding an abundant milk ; 

 head widely spreading ; leaves coriaceous, glossy ; ripe receptacles red- 

 purple, as large as small cherries. At the outskirts of primitive forests 

 near Mata de Cabondo ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 6418. 



The Portuguese colonists call it " Inoendeira," a name which the 

 negroes corrupt into " Sandeira." The native name in Grolungo Alto 

 is " Mulemba " or " Molemba" or " Malemba," in plural " Milemba " ; 

 it is indigenous also in the virgin forests of Ambriz and Cazengo 

 nearly everywhere but sporadic, and it is frequently cultivated about 

 villages ; a decoction of the Mulemba beards, that is the aerial roots, 

 is employed by the natives in eruptive fevers and diarrhoea, and it 

 is also used externally to wash ulcerating sores. The medicinal 

 virtue of it appears to depend upon an astringent principle in which it 

 abounds ; the natural colour of these roots, when fresh, is blood-red 

 with a peculiar lustre almost coppery, and their size often exceeds a 

 yard and a half ; they hang down vertically from the lower branches 

 of the trees in the form of purple besoms. See Welwitsch, Synopse 

 Explic. p. 28, n. 63 (1862J. It aff'ords the principal nourishment for a 

 water-distilling Cicada, and is the favourite haunt of very beautiful 

 Oetonias. Comhretum flammeum Welw. herb. nn. 4297, 4351, ante, 

 p. 344, grew in Molemba groves in Golungo Alto in Nov. 1854 

 and Oct. 1855 ; and lichen n. 438 grew on this fig at Sange in 

 May 1856 ; also the fungus n. 60 at Canguerasange in Nov. 1854 on 

 the trunks. 



