Boscici] ix. capparidace^e. 31 



the base of Serra da Xella, at a place called Bruco, fl. and young fruit 

 Oct. 1859. No. 980. 



The following may, as suggested by Welwitsch, belong here : — 

 Mossamedes. — A very rigid sparingly branched shrub, 4 ft. high. 

 In dry mountainous places at the right bank of the river Maiombo 

 near Cazimba, without flower or fruit June 1860. No. 981. 



2. B. salioifolia Oliv. Fl. Trop. i. p. 93. 



Mossamedes. — A distorted decumbent shrub, much branched from 

 the base ; flowers greenish- white. Sporadic, in dry sandy stony places, 

 between Mata dos Carpinteiros and Pao, fl. June 1860. No. 982. 



3. B. microphylla Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 93. 



Bumbo. — A small tree, 8 to 12 ft. high, with the habit of Elceagnus 

 or Hippophae ; trunk straight ; crown much branched ; branchlets 

 often spinous ; flowers yellowish. In rough mountainous places, by 

 the banks of the river Maiombo, between Pomangala and Quitive ; in 

 one place only found plentifully, in company with Balanites and 

 species of Acacia, sparingly in flower Oct. 1859. No. 983. 



4. B. urens Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 93. 



Loanda. — In the littoral region a cultivated shrub of 2 to 4 ft., and 

 in the hilly (or interior-littoral) region, as for example near Quicanga, 

 a small tree of 10 or rarely 12 ft. Wood fine-grained, yellowish-white, 

 and shining like satin ; branches patulous-erect, the ultimate ones 

 virgately elongated ; leaves evergreen dryly coriaceous; flowers greenish, 

 apetalous ; buds spherical or obovate-globose ; calyx tetramerous, val- 

 vate in aestivation ; stamens numerous, 14 to 20, usually 16, inserted 

 around the pistil within a thick spongy disk ; filaments ascending, 

 all of the same height, clavate-thickened upwards or now and then 

 uniformly cylindrical ; anthers oblong, sagittate-cordate, introrse, 

 2-celled ; ovary stipitate, ovate-pyramidal, many-ovuled, surmounted 

 by a globose-capitate stigma; fruit spherical, as large as a cherry in the 

 littoral region or in the hilly region as a small-sized walnut, hard and 

 tomentose when young, but when fully ripe softly crustaceous and 

 outside very densely clothed with hyaline smartly stinging setuke, quite 

 pale yellowish, bursting irregularly ; seeds 2 to 5, pretty large, more 

 or less uniform, nestled in a completely dried pulp. Very common in 

 the drier thickets from Loanda towards Tanderachique ; rarer and as 

 a small tree in the more elevated regions around Quicauda ; flowering 

 from March to May and June and not uncommonly again in September ; 

 in young fruit in July 1854 ; Museque do Sr. Schut 17 May 1854. 

 No. 989. Coli. Oaep. 209. 



5. CAPPARIS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 108. 



1. C. tomentosa Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 606 (1783); Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. p. 96 ; var. /?. Oliv., I.e. 



Zenza do Gojuungo. — A subscandent shrub, 4 to 5 f-t. high ; 

 leaves coriaceous ; expanded flowers not seen ; in Acacia-groves near 

 Calumguembo, rather rare ; in flower-bud in Sept. 1854. No. 974. 

 A scandent shrub, bristling with stipular spines directed downwards ; 

 sparingly, in bushy places by the skirts of woods, near Camutamba, 

 in the ascent towards Quicanda ; in flower-bud at the beginning of 

 Sept. 1857. No. 974J. 



Bumbo. — A robust almost arborescent shrub ; branches elongated, 



