646 Lxxviii. SAPOTACE^. [Mimusops 



near the Mahungos. Compare also Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 211 (1884). 

 It is nearly related to M. Welwitschii Engl. 



5. M. andongensis Hiern, sp. nov. 



A small tree ; head spreading widely ; wood very hard ; 

 tranches and branchlets arranged in a sub-verticillate manner, 

 the former ashy and glabrate, the latter tawny shaggy-tomentose 

 towards the extremities and leafy throughout ; leaves alternate, 

 *xstipulate, oval or elliptical, wavy and obtusely cuspidate at 

 the apex, narrowed at the base sometimes obtusely so, coriaceous, 

 glabrate or the midrib somewhat pubescent beneath, dark green 

 and glossy above, rather paler beneath, entire on the narrowly 

 cartilaginous somewhat undulate margin, 2 to 3 in. long by f to ' 

 If in. broad; lateral veins and reticulation raised on both faces 

 but not conspicuous ; petiole | to |- in. long, tomentellous or 

 glabrate, rather slender; flowers axillary; peduncles solitary, 

 tomentellous or subglabrescent. ^ to | in. long ; calyx-segments 

 biseriate, the outer ones 4, tomentose outside, ovate, sub-obtuse, 

 nearly ^ in. long ; the inner ones 4, lanceolate, scarcely acute, 

 nearly as long ; corolla fallen ; young fruit subglobose, pilose, 

 rather exceeding the calyx, tipped with the glabrous undivided 

 style which is |^ to J in. long. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In primitive forests between Pedras de Guinga 

 and Candumba ; young fr. March 1857. No. 1229. 



This species belongs to the section Quaternaria, Alph. DC, and is 

 nearly related to M. Kummel Hochst., but differs from it by the 

 peduncles being solitary in the axils and shorter than the petioles, by 

 longer petioles, etc. 



LXXIX. EBENACE^. 



These plants in Portuguese West Africa chiefly occur south of 

 the river Ouanza in the interior highlands, particularly species of 

 Euclea, all of which latter have edible fruit ; Welwitsch states 

 that on several occasions he satisfied his hunger and still oftener 

 his thirst by eating the fruit of E. pseudebenus E. Mey. ; the 

 fruit of several species of Diospyros also are edible. The wood 

 of all the species is very firm and heavy, but becomes black 

 only in old trees and then only in the centre ; even the young 

 trees, on account of the strength of their wood, are searched for 

 and felled by the negroes, and for this reason stout trunks very 

 rarely occur. In Golungo Alto the best timber is produced by 

 Maba Mualala Welw. and D. Dendo Welw., but it is often 

 streaked with white and near the bark the wood is always wholly 

 white ; these trees occur in highland forests also in the districts 

 of Dembos, Dande Alto, etc., and are often interspersed with 

 trees of Albizzia Welwitschii Oliv. and Gorynanihe paniculata 

 Welw. Along the road-sides, where they are annually cut back, 

 several species of Diospyros and Euclea, which would grow into 

 small trees, are seen as undershrubs or even as herbaceous 



