654 LXXIX. EBENACEiE. 



The doubtful Ebenacea, mentioned in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 525, 

 is possibly an Anonacea, and, if so, should have appeared ante on 

 page 9, as follows : — 



2*. POLYALTHIA Blume ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 25. 



1. P. ? acuminata Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 26 ; Henriques, Bol. 

 Soc. Brot. X. p. 98 (1892). 



Island of St. Thomas. — A handsome, evergreen tree ; trunk 

 strictly erect, 2 ft. in diameter ; wood very hard, dusky-blackish. In 

 the more elevated primitive forests of Monte CafE^, not uncommon ; 

 without either fl. or fr. end of Dec. 1860. Colonial name " Preto " or 

 " PAo Preto." No. 2536. 



Henriques, I.e., identifies, but with some doubt, a plant from St.. 

 Thomas bearing the local name of " Pdo preto " with Oliver's species ; 

 but Welwitsch's No. is not unlike Ebenaceae in habit. 



LXXX. OLBACEiE. 



1 . JASMINUM Tournef ., L. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 674. 



1. J. miorophyllum Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 93 (June 1895). 



HuiLLA. — A slender little shrub, sometimes standing erect, some- 

 times more or less twining ; flowers whitish with a purplish tinge. 

 In the drier thickets composed of Duranta erecta L. (Welw. herb. 

 No. 5760), and Clerodendron (cf. Welw. herb. Nos. 5763, 5768), on the 

 right bank of the LopoUo river, rather rare ; fl. Feb. 1860. No. 932. 



2. J. temum Knobl. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 535 (1893). 

 J. brevipes Baker, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing far and widely ; flowers 

 fragrant, white inside, rosy-purple outside ; drupes black ; in the 

 Mangue forests among the mountains of Alto Queta, abundant ; fl.. 

 and fr. March 1856 ; fr. May 1856. A subscandent shrub, with white 

 flowers ; in shady moist tall thickets between Ponte de Luiz Simoes 

 and Camilungo ; fl. beginning of July 1856. No. 926. 



Ambaca. — A sarmentose shrub of 4 to 6 ft. ; leaves coriaceous,, 

 deciduous at the time of the inflorescence ; flowers very pleasantly 

 fragant, handsome, rather fleshy, white inside, bright purplish outside. 

 In wooded thickets from Izanga towards N-gombe, sporadic ; fl. Oct. 

 1856. No. 929. 



3. J. obovatum Baker, I.e., p. 94. 



PoNGO Andongo. — A widely climbing shrub ; branches and branch- 

 lets slender, flexuous, as well as the soft membranous leaves shaggy 

 with spreading hairs ; flower-buds whitish, turning somewhat yellowish.. 

 By thickets near Catete, in deep rocky valleys ; fl.-bud beginning 

 of Deo. 1856. No. 5934. A shrub climbing far and widely ; flowers 

 very fragrant, white with a rosy tinge. In the moist rocky thickets- 

 of Barrancos de Catete, near the prassidium, sporadic ; fl. Feb. 1857. 

 No. 928. 



Var. Welwitschii. Branches less densely pubescent. 

 J. Welwitschii Baker, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A climbing shrub. Among the Queta mountains ; 

 fl.-bud Feb. Nos. 5933a, 5933b, 5933c. 



