58 xx. hypericine^e. [Eanmgana 



3. HARTTNGANA Lam. Tabl. t. 645 (1797); Benth. & Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. i. p. 167 (Haronga). 



1. H. paniculata Pers. Syn. ii. 91 (1807) (Arungana) ; Haronga 

 madagasoariensis Choisy; Oliv. PI. Trop. Air. i. p. 160. 

 Psorospermum (sp.) Welw. Synopse, p. 13, n. 27 (1862). 



Sierra Leone. — A small tree of 8 ft. (probably a young tree), 

 decussately branched, leaves coriaceous, glossy, flowers white, fruit 

 brick-red, size of a pepper-corn ; in the higher woods of Sugarloaf 

 Mountain, near Freetown, fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5398 ; fr., No. 5397- 



Golungo Alto. — A handsome tree, 20 to 80 ft. high (or in the 

 secondary woods and thickets a shrub scarcely flowering), with the 

 habit of Laurus ; trunk straight, 1 to 2 ft. in diam. ; wood compact, 

 durable, abounding in a fine orange-red resin which stains paper with 

 an orange colour ; leaves evergreen, moderately coriaceous, above bright 

 green glabrous minutely not pellucidly punctate, beneath covered with 

 a very short appressed quasi-furfuraceous pale-cinnamon tomentum, 

 the leaves of young plants often a foot long ; flowers white or white- 

 reddish, aromatic, rather small, pentamerous ; drupes globose, Bcarcely 

 half the size of pepper-corns, or when fully swollen and ripe scarcely 

 the size of black pepper-corns, glossy-brown-yellowish, nearly dry ; 

 pyrenes 5, moderately crustaceous, 1- or more seeded ; seeds ascending, 

 obcuneate-cylindrical, somewhat compressed, brown, shining, minutely 

 scrobiculate, one in each drupe almost always larger and better de- 

 veloped than the rest. Abundant in mountainous primitive woods of 

 Serra de Alta Queta and of Mount Oungulungulo, fl. Jan. to March ; 

 Montalagre, 3 Feb. 1855 ; Alta Queta, 28 Feb. 1856. Native name 

 "Mutune" or "Mutule"; the wood is called "Pao Mutune " or 

 "Mutule." See Welw., Z.c , and Apont.p. 560 under No. 140. No. 1063. 

 In fruit, No. 5399. 



A specimen from the Island of St. Thomas, where it is called 

 " Sangue " or " Pao Sangue," probably belongs to this species ; the 

 leaves are, however, of the same pale tawny colour on both surfaces, 

 and there are no flowers nor fruits ; Dec. 1860. No. 5400. See 

 Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 101. 



4. CA0PIA Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 448 (1763). 

 Yismia Vand. (1788); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 166. 



1. C. affinis O. Kuntze,.Kev. Gen. PI. i. p. 58 (1891). 

 Visrnia ajffmis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 161. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, very frondose ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous (chartaceous and marked with small round 

 glands in the dry state), very caducous ; flowers red outside, petals 

 turning white. Rather rare, in the less dense woods of Sobato de 

 Bumba and Bango, very sporadic ; in the ascent to Capopa, in young 

 fl. Dec. 1855. No. 1061a. 



2. C. frondosa O. Kuntze, I.e. 

 Vismia frondosa Oliv., I.e. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, widely frondose ; branches spreading ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, glossy, marked with small round dark glands ; 

 flowers white. Sparingly, in wooded declivities near the ascent to the 

 spring of Capopa, in fl. and young fr. Jan. 1856. No. 1062. 



