60 xxi. guttifer^!. [Garcinia 



3. GARCINIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 174. 



1. G. angolensis Vesque in DC. Mon. Phan. viii. p. 335. 

 Welwitsch states in his notes that this species furnishes good 



white and firm wood suitable for domestic utensils and agricultural 

 implements, as well as for carving purposes ; it is called " Unday 

 falso." The following specimens appear to belong to it : — 



Ambriz. — A small tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, much branched ; branches 

 branchlets and the shining coriaceous leaves all ternate. Flowers 

 white, polypetalous. In the more elevated hilly thickets near Ambriz, 

 with few flowers, middle of Nov. 1853. No. 5402. 



Libongo. — A small tree, 9 to 12 ft. high ; branches elongate, ternate ; 

 flowers white. In the more elevated woods by the banks of the river 

 Lifune ; occasional, by no means common, (J fl. end of Sept. 1858. 

 No. 1047. 



Bumbo. — A tree, 30 to 50 ft. high, with a corymbosely dilated crown. 

 Sporadic in small woods comprising Combretacese, Copaifera Mopane 

 Kirk, and Tamarix orientalis Forsk., near Quitive de Oima, in young 

 fruit Oct. 1859 (with ripe fruit June 1860). No. 1048. 



2. G. polyantha Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 166 ; Vesque, I.e., p. 332. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, 8 ft. high ; branches elongate, patent, 

 exhibiting a climbing tendency ; leaves opposite, coriaceous, compact, 

 glossy, pinnately veined. Sporadic in the primitive woods of Mangue, 

 near Sange, at the base of the mountains of Serra de Alta Queta, 

 without either flower or fruit, April 1885. No. 1046. 



There remains some doubt as to this determination ; according to 

 Welwitsch, Dr. Triana stated that the plant belonged to Rheedia 

 Pervillei Planch. & Tr. (GT Pervillei Vesque, I.e., p. 485). 



3. G. punctata Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 167; Vesque in DC. 

 Hon. Phan. viii. p. 380 (1893). 



Cf. DcKtylcmihera, gen. nov. Clusiacearum, Welw. Apont. p. 560, 

 under n. 139, without description. 



A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, exuding a yellow sap ; branches patent, 

 •slender, some nodding; branchlets opposite; leaves evergreen, 

 decussate, rather coriaceous, rather glossy, pellucid-striate, darkish 

 green above, rather paler beneath; $ flowers yellow, densely 

 clustered in the axils of the leaves ; calyx 4-parted, ebracteolate ; 

 segments concave, decussating, imbricate, the outer ones herba- 

 ceous on both sides and smaller, the inner ones herbaceous outside 

 and coloured inside ; petals 4, inserted on the fleshy torus, 

 alternating with the sepals, free, imbricate in bud, very patent in 

 full flower, milky, soon orange-red, fleshy, rather concave, fragile, 

 obovate-oblong or spathulate, obtuse ; stamens 4 (in 4 phalanges), 

 inserted with and opposite to the petals; filaments ascending, 

 thick, rigid, fleshy, flattened, at the apex uniformly dilated in a 

 fan-like manner ; anthers 5, seated on the reniform convex apex 

 of each filament, therefore 20 altogether, adnate, 2-celled, longi- 

 tudinally dehiscent ; stigma sessile, broadly hemispherical, orange- 

 coloured, oily-viscid. 



Golungo Alto. — In dense very shady elevated woods of the 

 mountains of Serra de Alta Queta, above Cahunha, in male flower 

 beginning of Nov. 1855. No. 1050. 



