648 LXXIX. EBENACE.E. [EucleOr 



Maiombo but scarcely reaching as far as Cazimba, not far from 

 the sea, very plentiful ; fl. early in Oct. and fr. later in Oct. 1859. 

 No. 2543. Seeds furrowed. Coll. Carp. 705. 



This, as are also other species or forms of the genus, is called by the 

 negroes " Emboto," or " N-boto." The flower-buds are frequently to 

 be found in June and July ; the flowers are open in June and July. 



2. E. lanceolata E. Mey., I.e. ; Alph. DC, I.e., p. 218 ; Hiern, 

 I.e. ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 212 (1884). 



u.. Leaves glabrous and shining, the young ones often lepidote. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An arborescent shrub, sometimes dispersedly, 

 sometimes verticillately branched. In rough bushy places at the sides 

 of the gigantic rocks of Pedras de Guinga ; young fr. March 1857. 

 Doubtfully placed here. No. 1247. 



Bbnguella.— A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, virgately branched ; branch- 

 lets both opposite and alternate ; female flowers racemose-spicate, 

 whitish-reddish or whitish ; fruit rather reddish, 1-seeded, deciduous. 

 In maritime thickets near the town towards the south ; ripe fr. middle 

 of June 1859. No. 2545. 



MossAMEDES. — An evergreen, resinous shrub, occasionally arbores- 

 cent, 7 to 12 ft. high. In sandy thickets along the inner banks and 

 rocks of the river Bero, plentiful ; few fl. June ; fr. July 1859. 

 Negro name, " N-boto " or "Emboto" (as aho E. pseudebenus'E.M.ey.). 

 No. 2546. A slender, much-branched shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high ; branchlets 

 opposite or occasionally ternate or quaternate ; leaves mostly opposite 

 or occasionally alternate, almost all lanceolate and wavy on the 

 margin, the younger ones lepidote ; male flowers whitish-rosy, 

 tetramerous ; stamens usually 16. In rocky places and in beds of 

 Tamarix orientalis Porsk. and Ximenia americana L., along the river 

 Maiombo from Pedra do Eei ascending almost as far as Bumbo ; 

 plentiful ; male fl. Oct. 1859 ; in the interior from 300 to 1500 ft. alt. 

 No. 2547. 



Bumbo. — A shrub, 8 ft. high ; branchlets mostly opposite ; leaves 

 much waved on the margin, glossy, scarcely ever lepidote ; male 

 racemes 9- or 10-flowered ; pedicels opposite, subsecund, a little longer 

 than the flowers, rather firm ; flowers whitish ; calyx-lobes 4, deltoid, 

 abruptly acute ; corolla glabrous inside, 4-cleft almost to the base, the 

 segments broadly oblong, rounded or very obtuse or occasionally sub- 

 emarginate, rather spreading on account of the turgid lanceolate 

 anthers ; stamens 16 ; filaments all free ; ovary rudimentary. On 

 somewhat rocky bushy slopes about Bumbo, in a sterile district, 

 sporadic ; male fl. end of Oct. 1859. No. 2648. 



Htjilla. — A rather rigid shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with a tortuous 

 ramiflcation ; leaves mostly wavy. In shrubby places along the 

 outskirts of forests between MumpuUa and Nene ; female fl., mostly 

 fallen, very few remaining as young fr., end of Oct. 1859. No. 2549. 



j8. Leaves and shoots pubescent. 



Htjilla. — A shrublet, 1 to 1;^ ft. high, with the habit almost of 

 Andromeda ; stems and branches hispid-pilose ; leaves dimorphous, 

 those near the base of the stems twice or thrice broader than the 

 others and obtuse, all glabrous above and pubescent beneath ; flowers 

 dioecious, white ; calyx of the male flowers short, 4-lobed or rarely 

 obscurely 5-lobed ; the lobes deltoid, acute ; corolla very deeply 

 4-lobed or 4-partite ; the segments obovate-elliptical, rounded-obtuse, 

 erect, rather concave and fleshy, occasionally scarcely connate even at 

 the base and nearly making a tetrapetalous corolla ; stamens 8, 9, 14. 



