Maba] Lxxix. ebenace/E. 651 



calyx 3-lobed, hirsute outside, bracteolate at the pedicel, the lobes 

 broadly ovate and subacute ; corolla trifid, strigose-hirsute outside, 

 exceeding the calyx ; stamens usually 9, rarely only ij ; anthers, 

 apiculate ; some of the filaments combined at the base, rather shorter 

 than the anthers ; ovary rudimentary, pilose. In the female plant 

 calyx-lobes 3, ovate, shortly acute, hirsute with erect hairs ; corolla 

 tubular, twice the length of the calyx, trifid half-way ; the lobes 

 oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, erect-spreading ; stamens obsolete ; 

 ovary ovoid, adpressedly hirsute all over especially at the base, 3 celled ; 

 style short, columnar, rather thick, terminating at the apex in 3 

 very short papilliform stigmas. In the rocky parts of little forests 

 between Ambriz and Quizembo on the right bank of the river Loge, 

 not far from the sea, not abundant ; fl. (male and female plants) 

 middle of Nov. 1853. No. 2527. 



i DIOSPYROS Dalech., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 665. 

 1. D. mespiliformis Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss, ii. nn. 655, 

 1243 {U. i. 1842); Alph. DO. in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 672 (1844); 

 Hiern in Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 518; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 213 (1884). 



Ambeiz. — A tree-like shrub of 6 ft. or a small tree of 12 ft., 

 perhaps in primitive forests a full-sized tree ; branches patent ; the 

 fresh branchlets ferruginous-tomentose ; leaves thinly coriaceous, the 

 young ones membranous, very soft and often dusky red, the adult 

 ones caducous at the time of the flowering ; calyx-lobes 3 or 4 or 

 rarely 5 or 6 ; stamens 8. In wooded rocky and sandy places near 

 Ambriz, on bushy hills between Ambriz and Mossul, and in the more 

 open forests between Ambriz and Quizembo ; fl.-bud, very few male 

 fl., and ripe fr. middle of Nov. 1853. No. 2528. 



GoLUNGO Alto, etc. — A tree of moderate size (15 to 25 or 30 ft.) 

 or a handsome tree of 30 to 50 ft in height ; trunk nearly straight, 

 1 to 2^ ft. in diameter ; bark rough, much cracked ; wood very hard, 

 heavy, white, well adapted for making screws ; branches erect- 

 spreading ; twigs virgate ; leaves coriaceous, evergreen or caducous 

 at the time of the flowering ; corolla contorted in aestivation ; fruit 

 baccate, rather hard, of the size of a small cherry, received at the 

 base in the quadrifid calyx, greenish or olive-tawny when quite ripe, 

 shining, sparingly pulpy inside, 3- or 4-celled ; the pulp gummy, very 

 viscid ; the cells 1-seeded. In forests, espesially in those less dense 

 and sandy, throughout this district and the neighbouring ones of 

 Zenza do G-olungo, Oazengo, and Ambaca ; at the banks of the 

 river Delamboa in Sobato de Bumbo ; foliage without fl. March 1855 ; 

 Trombata, March 1855, fl. 1856, and without fl. Feb. ; at the outskirts 

 of the forests of the Mong61o mountains, near the river Chixi^ 

 in Zenza do Golungo ; fr. Sept. 1867. Called by the colonists 

 " Silviera '' or " Musolveira " and by the negroes " Mulende." No. 2529. 

 At Trombeta ; fr. June 1855. Coll. Carp. 706. A leafy shrub of 

 5 to 7 ft. (perhaps in the primitive forests a tree) ; leaves caducous ;. 

 flowers white-greenish, small ; berries black-purple, 7- to 8-seeded, 

 borne on a quadrifid calyx ; fr. N-delle, July 1856 and August 1857. 

 Coll. Caep. 707 and 708. 



Ambaca. — A shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high, branched from the base j 

 leaves membranous, deciduous ; fruit orange-yellow, baccate, as large 

 as a moderate-sized cherry, 2- to 6-seeded, with a viscid pulp, borne 

 on a quadrifid calyx. At Isange ; fr. 10 June 1857. Coll. Caep. 709- 



