652 Lxxix. EBENACE^. [Diospyros 



Btimbo and Huilla. — A bush, perhaps a young tree. In the more 

 open forests from the base of Serra da Xella, above Bruce to 

 MumpuUa ; fl.-bud and fr. Oct. 1869. No. 2530. 



This plant is mentioned by Welwitsch in Apont. p. 652 under n. 108, 

 and is probably the Diospyros spoken of in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix. 

 pp. 287, 300 (1866), as a constituent of forest in Ambriz, etc., and 

 as occurring by the copal-field near Mongolo in the forest composed 

 chiefly of Cynometra laxiflora Benth. The fungus n. 208, ^cidium 

 Dioapyri A. L. Sm., grew on the leaves of this species near Trombeta. 



2. D.platyphyllaWelw.ex HiernMonogr. Eben.inTians.Oambr. 

 Phil. Soc. xii. p. 266 (1873), and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 519. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree of moderate size ; branches lax, tortuous, 

 leafy at the apex ; fruit said to be edible. In the more open sandy 

 Panda forests from Calunda to Condo ; scarcely in good fl. March 

 1867. Local name " Musolveira," the same as that of D. mespiliformis 

 Hochst. No. 2531. A shrub, l^ to 2 ft. high ; perhaps the upgrowth 

 from an old tree ; rootstock large, very hard ; stems numerous, erect, 

 compressed-angular ; leaves rigidly coriaceous, shining, with raised 

 veinleta beneath ; fruit solitary, axillary, hirsute, apparently baccate, 

 received into the 4- or 5-clef t calyx, apiculate at the apex with the 

 remains of the style. In the sandy Panda forests between Zamba and 

 Cazella, sporadic ; young fr. 18 Oct. 1856. Apparently this species. 

 No. 1234. An undershrub or shrublet, 1^ ft. high, rigid. In the sandy 

 forests between Cazella and the prsesidium, rather rare ; after the fall 

 of the fl., Nov. 1856. Perhaps this species. No. 1242. 



The fungus n. 211 grew on this species between Calunda and Condo. 



3. D. loureiriana G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 39 (1837) ; Hiern 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 522 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 214 (1884). 



Yar. heterotrieha Welw. ex Hiern in Journ. Bot. xiii. p. 355 

 (1875), and in Oliv. I.e., p. 523. 



GoLUNGO Alto, Ambaca, etc. — An erect shrub, 2 to 8 ft. high ; 

 stems several ; branches patent ; branchlets and young leaves clothed 

 with hairs of two kinds ; leaves membranous, usually flaccid, very 

 readily falling ofE in the drying ; flowers dioecious or at least poly- 

 gamous ; calyx quadrangular at the base, 4-cIef t from the middle 

 upwards, valvate in flower, green ; corolla milk-white, perigynous, 

 gamopetalous, deeply 4-lobed, the lobes contorted in aestivation ; 

 stamens 8, adnate to the base of the corolla, densely bearded with 

 rather rigid hairs ; ovary spherical, crowned with 4 styles falling 

 short of the corolla ; fruit 8-seeded, said to be edible. In bushy places 

 and at the outskirts of forests throughout this and neighbouring 

 districts, especially in wooded mountainous places, and frequently 

 alongside high roads, fl. from Sept. to May 1864 to 1866 ; among the 

 Queta mountains, 28 Feb. 1855 ; in the shady woods of Sobato de 

 Mussengue, March 1855 ; in hilly thickets on a red muddy soil, from 

 Izanga towards N-gombe (in Ambaca), in company with Bauhinia 

 cissoides Welw. (herb. No. 652 ; arde p. 296) and Smilax Kraussiana 

 Meisn. (Welw. herb. No. 3860), fl. 16 and 17 Oct. 1856. No. 2535. 

 Branches erect-spreading ; leaves deciduous ; flowers polygamous ; 

 corolla deeply 4-partite, white ; style bipartite at the apex. In the 

 more open woods of Sobato de Bumba near Bumba, fl. Sept. 1855 ; 

 in shady forests among the Queta mountains, fl. 24 Sept. 1856. A 

 narrow-leaved spring form ; also at the cataracts of the Delamboa, 

 fr. May 1856. No. 25356. 



