MO Lxxvii. MYESiNEiE. [Pattava 



slightly undulate, deep-green, pelluoid-striate, paler green beneath ; 

 midrib raised beneath ; venation delicate, not conspicuous ; petiole 

 dusky, ^} to J in. long, usually patent. At the outskirts of forests 

 about the Capopa spring in Sobato de Bumba ; without either fl. or 

 fr. end of Aug. 1855. No. 4835. 



LXXVIII. SAPOTACEiE. 

 1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii.p. 653. 



1. C. Cainito L. 8p. PI., edit. 1, p. 192 (1753). 



Sierra Leone. — A small tree ; shoots rufous-tomentose, with alter- 

 nate leaves. Near Freetown ; without either fl. or fr. Sept. 1853. A 

 West Indian species, doubtless cultivated. No. 6735. 



2. C. afrieanum Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 163 (1844) ; Baker in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 500. 



C. macrophyllivm, Sabine & G. Don in Trans. Hort. Soc. v. p. 458 

 (1824); non Gaertn. 



Island op St. Thomas. — Branchlets erect-patent ; leaves alternate, 

 simple. Without either fl. or fr. Dec, 1860. Local name " Umtuem." 

 No. 6761. 



This species is probably the Cainito mentioned in Afzelius' Report 

 •on Sierra Leone, p. 172, n. 40 (1794). In our specimens the foliage is 

 rather smaller than in those from Sierra Leone. 



3. C. cinereum Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. p. 522 (1890). 



C, Stuhlmcmnii Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 306 (1895), as to 

 Buchanan's cited n. 793. Of. Bumelia Afzel. Report S. Leone, 

 p. 172, n. 41 (1794). 



Oazengo. — A tree of moderate size, 20 to 25 ft. high, with the habit 

 ■of the laurels ; branches spreading ; branchlets much scarred, curved, 

 twisted ; flowers monopetalous, pentandrous, apparently white ; style 

 •thick, columnar, truncate ; drupe 1-seeded. At the outskirts of forests 

 along the river Luinha, rather rare ; with marcescent fl. and young f r. 

 Deo. 1854. No. 4811. 



GrOLTJNGO Alto. — A tree of 15 to 20 ft., with the habit of a Laurus 

 or Arbutus ; leaves coriaceous, shining, fasciculate at the apex of the 

 branches ; flowers numerous, situate below the leaves on the branches 

 of the previous year, very shortly pedunculate. On the left-hand side 

 of the road from Cambondo towards the river Luinha ; fr. Jan. 1855. 

 ■Coll. Carp. 695. In very young fr. after the fall of the corolla. 

 No. 4818. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, patently branched 

 above ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, silvery-shining beneath. In the 

 little forests of the praesidium, sporadic ; fl.-bud beginning of Nov. 

 1856. No. 4833. A tree of 20 to 25 ft., sparingly milky in all parts ; 

 trunk 1^ to 2 ft. in diameter at the base ; branches patent ; leaves 

 coriaceous, rigid, obscurely green and richly shining above, whitish 

 green and shining somewhat like silver beneath ; corolla campanulate- 

 rotate ; the limb 5-olef t, erect-patent, from whitish to greenish ; 

 stamens 5, opposite to the corolla-lobes ; anthers extrorse, incumbent, 

 2-celled, sagittately divaricate below ; very rarely there is present a 

 sixth stamen, alternating with a corolla-lobe, shorter than the rest and 

 surmounted with a sterile anther; ovary 5-oelled ; the cells uni-ovulate ; 

 style thick, suboylindrical, bearing at its apex an obscurely 5-Iobed 



