Euclea] lxxix. EBENACEiB. 649 



16, or 17 ; anthers pilose towards the apex, at the apex itself sparingly 

 fasoiculate-barbellate with a few hairs, the cells lateral ; ovary- 

 rudimentary, densely fimbriate-pilose below, centrally elongate-conical 

 above and almost resembling 4 closely combined stigmas. On bushy 

 somewhat rocky slopes near Mumpulla, not uncommon ; male fl. 

 Oct. 1859. No. 2550. A sub-csespitose, rather rigid shrublet, like 

 the last No. in size and habit. In bushy pastures where the thickets 

 are annually burnt on the right bank of the LopoUo stream towards 

 JSu, more or less in masses ; male fl. Nov. 1869. No. 3551. In same 

 locality, in company with dwarf Myrtacese (cf. Eugenia coronata Vahl, 

 var. salicifolia ; Welw. Nos. 4392, 4393) ; fr. Feb. 1860. No. 25516. 

 A shrublet, 9 or scarcely 18 in. high ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, glossy 

 above. In the same locality and like company as the last ; flemale fl. 

 end of Nov. 1859. No. 2552. A shrublet, almost an undershrub, 

 about IJ ft. high ; rootstock woody ; stems several ; berries black- 

 purple, edible. On the sandy-earthy bushy slopes of pastures along 

 the right bank of the Lopollo stream, in company with dwarf species 

 of Eugenia and Gymnosporia (cf. G. senegalensis Loes., var. pumila ; 

 Welw. No. 1346) ; ripe fr. end of Jan. 1860. The similarity of this 

 plant with Eugenia coronata Vahl, var. salicifolia, is so close that a 

 general or superficial description would apply almost as well for either 

 plant. Perhaps it is only a state of this Euclea become in fully ripe 

 fruit nearly glabrous. No. 2553- A shrublet, scarcely a foot high, 

 branched from the base ; leaves coriaceous ; fruit baccate, 1-seeded ; 

 seed precisely spherical, pisiform ; testa hard-woody. In the bushy 

 parts of Humpata ; fr. 24 April 1860. Apparently this species. Coll. 

 Oakp. 704. 



3. E. multiflora Hiern, Monogr. Eben., I.e., p. 100, t. 3 ; and in 

 OHv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 513. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree-like shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high ; trunk erect, 

 straight, 2 to 2\ in. in diameter at the base, branched towards the 

 apex ; branches spreading ; branchlets erect-spreading, in the living 

 state covered as well as the fruit with white felt which soon turns 

 rufous ; leaves coriaceous, above remarkably shining with a deep 

 green lustre and with elevated reticulation, whitish-hoary with white 

 rather long adpressed hairs beneath. In wooded rocky places in 

 Barranco de Catete, at the back of the preesidium ; young fr. Dec. 1856. 

 No. 1257. A small tree, 7 to 8 ft. high ; branches erect-spreading ; 

 leaves coriaceous, shaggy-tomentose beneath. In the taller thickets 

 near Catete, in the prsesidium ; without either fl. or fr. Dec. 1856. 

 Perhaps a form of this species. No. 1243. 



HuiLLA. — A handsome shrub or small tree, 6 to 8 ft. high ; trunk 

 simple, branched like a besom towards the apex. In thickets at the 

 outskirts of forests near Lopollo ; without either fl. or fr. Dec. 1859. 

 The leaves are frequently burdened with an Erineum (Welw. 

 Fungi, n. 139). No. 1258. An arborescent shrub, 4 to 8 some- 

 times 10 ft. high, distinguished by a very dense head, a dusky green 

 object as seen from a long distance ; wood hard ; in the female 

 flower calyx-lobes 4, short, acute, broad at the base ; corolla tubular, 

 quadrifid half-way, with obtuse lobes ; staminodes represented by a 

 ring of hairs which persist at the bottom of the calyx-tube after the 

 fall of the corolla ; fruit baccate, hirsute-tomentose outside, 1- or 

 very rarely 2-seedecl, apiculate with the thick firm straight style ; 

 stigma capitate, with several mamUlse ; the style is occasionally 

 bipartite and then less thick and more elongated, with the stigmas a 



