658 Lxxx. OLEACEiE. \N'athusia 



Cazella and the presidium, and also but rarely in the prsesidium itself ; 

 fl. Dec. 1856 ; fr. June 1857. No. 936. Near Luxillo, by the road 

 leading to Cazella ; fr. June 1857. Coll. Cakp. 712. 



This and the last, as well as the other species above mentioned, were 

 recommended for introduction into Portugal : see Welwitsch, Apontam. 

 p. 579, note 10. 



3. MAYEPEA Aubl. PI. Guian. i. p. 81, t. 31 (1775). 

 Linociera Swartz (1791) ; Benth. <fe Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 678. 

 The type specimen of Mayepea is in the British Museum 



herbarium. 



1. M. aMcana Knobl. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 529 (1893). 

 Chionanthus africanus Welw. ex Knobl., I.e., p. 530. 



PuNfio Andongo. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with the habit of Olea 

 latifolia and nearly like that of Linociera intermedia Wight, Ic. t. 1245, 

 but differing by the panicles of flowers being shorter than the leaves, 

 the strigulose-hirsute calyces, the pale yellow instead of white corolla, 

 the narrower strictly erect petals, and the rounded obtuse instead of 

 acute leaf -tips ; bark whitish ; trunk 1 to 1 J ft. in diameter at the base ; 

 branches patent, more or less smooth-whitish, as well as the branch- 

 lets dilated-tumid at the nodes ; leaves coriaceous, glossy and deep 

 green above, pallid beneath ; petals thick ; stamens 2. In little woods, 

 the remnants of the primitive forest, at the base of the gigantic rocks 

 of the prsBsidium, sporadic ; fl. and few fr. Dec. 1856 ; Mata de Pungo 

 and Cabondo ; fr. Feb. 1857. No. 941. 



This is the plant referred to by Welwitsch, Apontam. p. 549, under 

 n. 89, and p. 579, note 10, as belonging to an undescribed genus. 



2. M. WelwitscMi Knobl., I.e., p. 530. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tall tree, 60 to 80 or 100 ft. high or more ; trunk 

 2 to 3 ft. in diameter at the base, bare of branches half way up, then 

 with numerous primary suberect branches ; the secondary branches 

 and branchlets patent or even nodding and pendulous, arranged 

 irregularly ; branchlets much compressed and flattened towards the 

 insertion of the leaves ; leaves opposite, thinly chartaceous-coriaceous, 

 bright green and glossy above, but little paler beneath, smooth on 

 both faces, borne on variously curved or reflected long flaccid petioles 

 and therefore pendulous, apparently evergreen ; flowers arranged in 

 terminal trichotomous panicles ; pedicels and common peduncles quad- 

 rangular ; calyx shortly cyathiform-campanulate, 4-toothed, green, 

 bracteate at the base ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, f urfuraceous ; corolla 

 white, gamopetalous, hypogynous, some deciduous after fertilisation of 

 the ovary ; the tube very short ; the limb equal, quadrifid ; the lobes 

 valvate in aestivation ; stamens 4, inserted on the throat of the corolla, 

 exserted, equal ; anthers yellow, introrse, large, 2-celled ; the cells 

 distant, dehiscing longitudinally ; stj'le terminal, short, robust, whitish- 

 green ; stigma thick, cubical-capitate. In the denser primitive forests, ■ 

 by the cataract of the river Cuango, near Sange, sporadic ; fl. Aug., 

 young fr. Oct. 1855. No. 945. A small, probably a young tree, 6 ft. 

 high, agreeing in habit with the previous No. but with much shorter 

 petioles ; without either fl. or fr., at the cascade of the Quango, April 

 1855. Probably a young state of this species. No. 946. 



4. OLEA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 679. 

 1. 0. europsea L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 8 (1753). 



Var. j3. sativa DC. Prodr. viii. p. 284 (1844). 



