€hrysophylluni\ lxxviii. sapotace^e. 641 



stigma (or, rather, crowned at the apex with 5 depressed stigmatic 

 tubercles), these 5 elevated points of the stigma being copiously 

 milky at the time of the flower, and so appearing whitish. At the 

 base of the elevated rocks of the prsesidium and in their fissures, 

 sporadic ; fl. middle of Nov. 1856. No. 4824. A tree of moderate 

 size, with a dense obovoid head. In the dense primitive forests on 

 the Calemba island in the river Cuanza ; young fr. March 1857. 

 No. 4826. 



With this species, the type No. of which is 4824, must be compared 

 Sideroxylon longistylum Baker, I.e., p. 502. 



4. C. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. p. 521 (1890) ; Elliot 

 in Joum. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 84 (1894). 



Sideroxylon sp., Eicalho, PL Uteis, p. 211 (1884). 



GOLTTNGO Alto. — A slender shrub, climbing to a height of 25 ft. 

 flowers small, white. In dense forests among the mountains of the 

 eastern Queta ; fl. in Jan. and March ; fr. Sept. 1855. No. 4831. A 

 scandent shrub, trunk scarcely an inch thick at its base, with long 

 spines. In Mata de Mangue ; fl. April 1855. No. 4833. A sub- 

 scandent shrub ; leaves evergreen, glossy, penni-uerved ; flowers 

 axillary, white ; corolla waxy, rather fleshy. In dense thickets among 

 the mountains on the north-eastern side of Queta ; fl. beginning of 

 June 1855. No. 4832. In the denser primitive forests of Serra de 

 Alto Queta by streams ; fl.-bud June 1855. No. 4834. An evergreen 

 shrub, climbing far and high ; branches strigose-tomentose, spreading 

 horizontally ; leaves shining above, paler beneath, more or less dis- 

 tichous, very densely penni-nerved, cartilaginous on the margin ; 

 flowers globose, very small, scarcely ^ in. in diameter, axillary, solitary 

 or 2 or 3 (or in male flowers several) together ; corolla gamopetalous, 

 sub-urceolate ; the limb deeply crenate ; the lobes erect or rather 

 connivent ; stamens (in female flowers) ; style thick, straight ; ovary 

 superior, free, hirsute with ferruginous hairs. In the more elevated 

 wooded mountainous parts of Sobato de Bumba, near Oapopa ; fl. 

 28 July 1855. No. 4830. An elegant, climbing shrub. Serra de Alto 

 Queta ; fr. August 1855. Coll. Carp. 699. 



This shrub is called by the negroes in Grolungo Alto " Jungingi," and 

 the seeds " Jimbundo " ; the bony, highly polished seeds are worn by 

 the natives as an ornament, and are suspended from the neck in a 

 knot, as an amulet. According to Fioalho, I.e., the native name of the 

 shrub is Tingingi. 



5. C. argyrophyllum Hiern, sp. n. 



A beautiful tree, 20 to 40 ft. high or less, with a broad leafy 

 head ; trunk 2 to 3 ft. in diameter, with a hard excellent wood ; 

 branches spreading ; branchlets dark-ashy, subterete, nodulose, 

 glabrate and closely scarred or towards the tips puberulous and 

 leafy ; leaves alternate, crowded towards the tips of the branchlets, 

 oblanceolate or somewhat oblong, retuse or emarginate and some- 

 times minutely mucronulate at the apex, wedge-shaped or narrowed 

 to or towards the base, coriaceous, rigid, erect spreading or re- 

 flected, glaucous-shining and glabrous above, silvery-silky with 

 short adpressed sometimes sub-obsolete tomentum beneath, 3 to 

 9iin. long by f to 2\ in. broad; margin thinly cartilaginous, 

 recurving, entire ; lateral veins very numerous, delicate, incon- 

 spicuous, widely spreading, anastomosing beneath in a sinuous 



