40 xn. bixinea ' [Flacourtia 



4. FLACOURTIA L'Herit. : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 28. 



1. F. flavescens Willd. Sp. PI. iv. p. 830 (1805); Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 121. 



Goltjngo Alto.— A dioecious widely frondose tree, 10 to 25 ft. high, 

 with a rhamnoid habit; trunk armed, especially at the base, with 

 long stout branched subvertical spines ; branches, shoots and petioles 

 reddish ; leaves rather rigid, membranous, above yellowish-green, pale 

 below, with slender prominent nerves. Calyx of the male flowers 

 patelliform, obsoletely 3-5-lobed ; disk waxy, of an orange- colour, 

 covering the whole pan of the calyx, stellately furrowed on the sur- 

 face, obsoletely lobed ; stamens indefinite, arising from the centre of 

 the disk, free, filiform, white, the central ones erect, the lateral ones 

 archingly patent, the outer ones deflexed, anthers extrorse, 2-celled, 

 longitudinally dehiscing, cells separate. Calyx of the female flowers 

 5-cleft ; disk orange ; styles 5 or 6, more or less cohering at the base, 

 soon free ; stigma dark purple. Berry green, then turning orange, 

 edible, ellipsoidal. Sporadic in the more elevated primitive woods of 

 Serra de Alta Queta ; fl. and young fr. 4 Bee. 1855. No. 538. 



5. DOVYALIS Arn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 128. 

 Aberia Hochst. ; Benth. & Hook, f., I.e. 



1. D. macrocalyx Warburg in Engl. <fc Prantl, Natnrl. Pflanz. 

 iii. p. 44 {Doryalis) (1893). 



Aberial macrocalyx Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 122. 



Pungo Andongo. — A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, divaricately 

 branched above ; branches spinous ; spines ■£ to 1£ in. long ; leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, yellowish-green on both sides ; fruit baccate, orange- 

 red, ovoid, involucred by the 6-8-partite calyx, crowned by 2 erect 

 filiform softly hairy styles, smooth outside, mucous-pulpy within ; 

 seeds 2, erect, embedded, compressed- ovate, shortly beaked, loosely 

 woolly outside ; albumen fleshy-cartilaginous ; embryo large, not 

 curved ; cotyledons flat, ovate-cordate ; radicle pointed towards the 

 beak of the seed. Sporadic in the deep depressions among the rocks 

 of the fortress ; fr. beginning of Nov. 1856. No. 540. 



The doubt expressed by Oliver, I.e., with regard to the genus, must 

 remain. 



The two following plants, both gathered without either flower 

 or fruit, bear a close resemblance to the above species : — 



Huilla. — A shrub or perhaps a young tree ; trunk 6 to 10 ft. high, 

 already virgately branched a little above the base. In thickets be- 

 tween Mumpulla and Nene, Oct. 1859. No. 475. A robust shrub, 

 branchlets spinous, leaves distichous. In thin stony woods, near Mum- 

 pulla, on the highest ridges of Serra da Xella, Oct. 1859. No. 543. 

 This is apparently the plant referred to by Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 p. 123, in a note at the end of the genus Aberia. 



2. D. mollis Warburg in Engl. & Prantl, I.e. (DoryaUs). 

 Aberia mollis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 122. 



Pungo Andongo.— A much-branched spinous bush, 10 ft. high ; 

 habit similar to that of Diospyros Dendo Welw. ; leaves membranous, 

 beset above with short blackish rather rigid hairs, and beneath with 

 a yellowish down, soft ; flowers apparently dioecious ; sepals of the 

 pistilliferous flowers 5 or 6, green, pilose, rather spreading ; ovary 

 depresso-globose, pilose, bearing at the apex 3 or 4 firm erect styles, 



