Royena\ lxxix. bbenace^. 647 



■shrublets, only 6 to 12 in. high; but even in such state they 

 frequently bear flowers and fruits. 



1. ROYENA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 663. 



1. R. pallens Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. p. 80 (1794) ; Hiern in 

 ■Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 510. 



HuiLLA. — An evergreen shrub of 6 to 10 ft., occasionally taller, and, 

 perhaps, in primitive forests a tree ; flowers white, rather fleshy. In 

 1)ushy and wooded places along the banks of the river Monino and 

 the LopoUo stream ; fl. Dec. 1859. A rather narrow-leaved form. 

 No. 2534. A shrulD 4 to 6 ft. high, rarely a small tree of 8 ft., 

 repeatedly branched in a divaricate manner ; flowers whitish ; calyx 

 usually 5-, rarely 4-clef t. In thin open forests and in thickets between 

 Lopollo and the river Monino ; young fr. Dec. 1859, fl. Jan. 1860. A 

 rather broad-leaved form. No. 2533. A shrublet, scarcely 9 in. high : 

 •stems ascending. In elevated rocky parts of Morro de Monino ; 

 without either fl. or fr. April 1860. Apparently in a sickly state, 

 "burdened with the Fungus n. 128, JEcidium Welivitschii Lagerh. ; 

 probably belonging to this species. No. 1255. 



2. R. eistoides Welw. ex Hiem, Monogr. Eben. in Trans. 

 •Oambr. Phil. Soc. xii. p. 87 (1873), and in Oliv., I.e., p. 511. 



PuNGO Ajsdongo. — A procumbent shrub, 1 to 1^ ft. high, branched 

 from the base, whitiah-hoary, resembling in habit a species of Cistus ; 

 wood very hard, tenacious ; young branches erect, the fruiting ones 

 arching-ascending ; leaves silky-hoary ; fruit greenish-glaucous when 

 ^oung, at length turning golden-yellow, shining, received at the base 

 in the 5-clef t calyx, obtusely mucronate at the apex, globular, hard, 8- 

 to 12-celled, 1- to 6-, mostly 3- to 5-seeded, several of the cells being 

 abortive. In wooded sandy sunny forests and in thickets between 

 Condo and Quisonde at the river Cuanza : fr. March 1857. No. 2532, 

 .and Coll. Carp. 703. 



2. EUCLEA L. edit. Murr. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 664. 



1. E. pseudebemis E. Mey. ex Dr^ge, Cat. PI. Exsicc. Afr. 

 Austr. p. 7 (1837) ; Alph. DO. in DO. Prodr. viii. p. 217 (1844); 

 Hiem in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 512. 



Biospyros pseudebenus Parment. in Ann. TJniv. Lyon, vi. f asc. 2, 

 p. 138 (1892). 



MossAMBDES. — A shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high, much branched from the 

 base upwards ; branches and branchlets erect ; leaves coriaceous ; 

 fruit edible, resembling in look and size a whortleberry, but less juicy 

 and not so pleasant, black-bluish, drupaceous, but little juicy ; seed 

 solitary. In sandy bushy places along the banks of the rivers Bero 

 and Giraul, very plentiful ; in Mata dos Carpinteiros ; fr. July 1869, 

 No. 2544. A shrub of 6 to 8 ft. with the habit of a Daphne ; flowers 

 dioecious, gamopetalous ;_ calyx of the male flowers 5-cleft ; corolla 

 globose-urceolate, 6- or 6-lobed, rather fleshy, white, tomeutose outside; 

 stamens 12 to 16, inserted at the bottom of the corolla-tube ; anthers 

 erect, hirsute ; filaments short ; pistil obsolete. Fruits pea-shaped, 

 edible, pleasantly acidulous, clustered in great abundance on the 

 branchlets, glaucous-bluish like those of a juniper. In bushy places 

 and in small open woods composed of Taniarix orientalis Forsk. and 

 species of Cordia, along the sandy banks of the rivers Bero and 



