Oka] LXXX. OLEAOE^. 659 



LoANDA. — A small tree, 8 to 10 ft. high. In sandy maritime places 

 in the island of Cazanga near Loanda, introduced from Portugal and 

 several trees cultivated ; without either fl. or f r. May 1854. No. 940. 



It was reported to Welwitsch that this tree flowered abundantly in 

 Benguella gardens, but that it never or only once had borne fruit 

 there ; in Apontam. p. 549, under n. 89, he recommended its culti- 

 vation in the district of Pungo Andongo. 



LXXXI. SALVADORACE^. 



1. SALVADORAGarcin, L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 681. 



1. S. persica L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 122 (1753). 

 Var. densiflora (Welw. ms. in Herb.). 



A perennial shrub, 4 to 6 ft. bigh, of a sad pallid almost 

 Ohenopodiaceous aspect, much and densely branched ; sap watery ; 

 stem scarcely jointed ; branchlets virgate, divergent-nodding, 

 green compressed- angular and pubescent towards the extremities ; 

 leaves opposite, oval, rounded or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or 

 obliquely narrowed towards the base, coriaceous, glabrous or 

 nearly so, evergreen, pallid-glaucous, entire and in the dry state 

 rather undulate on the margin, 1 to 2 in. long by |^ to 1 in. broad ; 

 petiole 5- to 1^ in. long ; flowers hermaphrodite, greenish, tetra- 

 merous, -^^ in. in diameter, on very short puberulous pedicels, 

 densely paniculate ; calyx deeply quadridentate, rather fleshy ; 

 corolla quadrifid, longer than the calyx ; the lobes somewhat 

 imbricate in sestivation, revolute at the time of full flowering, 

 thinly membranous, whitish-greenish; stamens 4, alternating 

 with the corolla-lobes, filaments flattened, ascending ; anthers 

 globose, didymous, introrse, 2 -celled, longitudinally dehiscing, 

 yellow; ovary comparatively lai-ge, spherical, green, sessile at 

 the bottom of the calyx-tube, covering the insertion of the corolla- 

 lobes and stamens, 1 -celled, 1 -ovulate ; disk obsolete; berry soft, 

 rosy, as large as a peppercorn, hyaline-pulpy inside, 1- seeded. 



Loanda, etc. — In sandy maritime rooky places, very plentiful along 

 the coast from Ambriz to the mouth of the Cuanza ; near Loanda, fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1853 and Oct. 1857. No. 944. 



2. AZIMA Lam. (1783); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 68L 

 Monetia L'Herit. Stirpes Nova;, p. 1, t. 1 (1784). 



1. A. tetracantha Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 343 (1783). 



Monetia barlerioides L'Herit., I.e. 



Loanda. — An erect, much-branched shrub, 3 or rarely 4 ft. high, 

 bristling with very acute axillary spines ; leaves coriaceous, glossy, 

 evergreen ; flowers greenish-yellowish ; fruit white. In sandy and 

 rooky bushy maritime hilly places along the whole coast of the 

 district, plentiful ; fl. in April, f r. from March to August ; near Maianga 

 d'El Rei, fl. beginning of April 1854. Nos. 943, 4649, 5403. A coast 

 shrub ; leaves fleshy, brittle ; spines cruciate ; flowers Ehamnoid, 

 green ; berries crowded, black, juicy ; Praia de Penedo ; fr. Jan. 1854. 

 OoLL. Cakp. 336. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — In rather dry thinly bushy places near Dafunda, 

 rather sparingly ; fl. Sept. 1857. A broad-leaved form of this species. 

 No. 943. 



