702 Lxxxiv. LOGANiACEiE. [Anthochista 



The following No., perhaps, belongs to this genus : — 



Cazengo. — A beautiful shrub of 5 to 7 ft. (perhaps a youug tree), 

 glaucescent throughout ; stem somewhat winged or two-edged ; sap 

 viscid, not milky ; leaves coriaceous, much paler beneath ; petioles 

 connate at the dilated base in a truncate cupuliform interpetiolar 

 sheath. In the more elevated primaeval forests of Serra de Muxaula ; 

 only a few specimens seen, without either fl. or f r. , June 1 855. No. 4063. 



5. STRYCHNOS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 797. 



1. S. spinosa Lam. Tabl. Encycl. ii. p. 38 (1793). 

 BrehmAa spinosa Harv. ex DC. Prodr. ix. p. 18 (1845). 

 LoANDA. — A small tree, 5 to 8 ft. high ; trunk 4 in. in diameter ; 



branches corky ; leaves submembranous ; flowers greenish ; fruit 

 ■edible, like an orange in shape surface and bright colour, 2 to 3 in. in 

 diameter. In bushy hilly places, chiefly in thin groves of Adansonia, 

 between Alto das Cruzes and Quicnxe ; fl. from middle of April to 

 middle of May. The young shoots, which after the October rains 

 quickly spring up from the burnt root-stocks, have much smaller and 

 rigidly coriaceous leaves. Negro name " Maboca." Nos. 4763, 6019. 

 Museque de Senhor Sohut ; without either fl. or fr. March and April 

 1864. No. 4764. An erect shrublet, 1 to 3 ft. high ; stems spiny, the 

 spines decurved ; branches patent ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, shining. In 

 sandy places, especially on the public roads, plentiful ; between Alto 

 •das Cruzes and Quicuxe ; without either fl. or fr. Nov. and Dec. 1853. 

 Perhaps the young shoots of a full-sized shrub or of a tree. No. 4767 . 

 In hilly bushy places near Loanda ; fr. May 1854 and June 1868. 

 Coll. Caep. 115. A small tree, 6 to 8 ft. high ; trunk and branches 

 from corky to several-winged ; leaves deciduous ; fruit edible. In 

 hilly mountainous thickets near Loanda ; fr. Coll. Carp. 747. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, a foot high, shaped like a little tree ; 

 branches patent ; spines axillary, hard ; leaves very bright green, rather 

 fleshy-coriaceous. Along roads between Trombeta and Cambondo ; 

 withoutfl. Sept. 1854. During four years never seen to flower. No. 4770- 

 A straight, subglaucous-green shrublet, 1\ ft. high ; leaves rather 

 fleshy. By the Ambaca road between Sange and Camilungo ; without 

 fl. Dec. 1854. No. 4771. In secondary thickets by the king's highway 

 near Cabondo ; without fl. June 1856. No. 4772. 



Ambaca. — A densely branched, very spiny shrublet of 1 to 2 ft., 

 probably the fresh growth from the stock of a burnt or mutilated tree. 

 In neglected highways between Izanga and N-gombe, plentiful ; without 

 fl. Oct. 1856. No. 4773. 



Those specimens which are without flowers are referred here with 

 some doubt. 



2. S. Volkensii Gilg in Notizbl. Bot. BerKn, No. 2, p. 76 

 <5 June 1895). 



GoLUNGO Alto and Cazengo. — A tree, 8 to 12 ft. high ; trunk 

 usually i\ to 3 but occasionally 4 to 6 in. in diameter ; branches spiny ; 

 leaves opposite, sub-coriaceous ; flowers greenish ; fruit like an orange 

 in colour size and shape, edible ; pulp acidulous-sweet. In thickets 

 and thin forests from Cambondo to the Luinha and Trombeta, tolerably 

 plentiful ; also near Dalatanda in the Cazengo district ; fl. in the 

 elevated parts of the Queta mountains, Nov. 1855. Native name 

 " Maboca." No. 4768. A tree of 10 to 15 ft. ; trunk 4 to 6 in. in 

 diameter ; branches diffuse ; flowers greenish, very rapidly devoured by 



