Garcinia] xxi. guttifer^e. 61 



4. G. huillensis Welw. exOliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 167; Vesque 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. viii. p. 353 (1893). 



Huilla. — A small glabrous dioecious tree, 7 to 10 ft. high, exuding 

 from all parts a yellow resinous milk, oppositely branched, with a 

 divaricately dilated crown ; leaves opposite, coriaceous, rather glossy, 

 with elevated veins on both surfaces, 2 to 3 by j to If in. ; petiole 

 very short, clothed at the back with a bright red (glandular?) 

 membrane, articulated with the branch ; female flowers terminal and 

 in the upper axils, subsessile, 1 to 4 together, herbaceous-green ; calyx 

 sessile amidst decussating bracts ; uppermost bracts truncate, forming 

 a minutely lobed or repand toriform epicalyx ; sepals 4 in 2 decussating 

 pairs, concave, rounded, imbricate ; petals 4, rather larger than the 

 sepals, sinistrorsely convolute (as seen from above), concave, rounded ; 

 rudiments of stamens or few, minute, hypogynous ; ovary superior, 

 shortly ovoid, fleshy, vaguely and very obtusely 4-sided, 4-celled ; cells 

 1-ovuled ; style very short, thick, 4-furrowed ; stigma peltate-hemi- 

 spherical, much dilated, waxy, very viscid, with a small central depression 

 above, shallowly 4-lobed. Sporadic, in the elevated woods of Morro 

 de Lopollo, at an elevation of 5500 ft., $ fl. 17 May 1860. No. 1051. 



5. Garcinia? (sp.). 



A glabrous scandent shrub, hard and rigid in all its parts, 

 elegant, 5 to 8 ft. high ; sap watery ; branches terete ; branchlets 

 erect-patent, cylindrical, at the insertion of the leaves piano- 

 compressed ; leaves oval-oblong, abruptly and obtusely acumi- 

 nate, rather wedge-shaped at the base, undulate-entire, thickly 

 coriaceous, pellucid-punctate with small round dots, deep green 

 above, pale green beneath, glossy on [both surfaces, evergreen, 

 6 to 7 by 1\ to 3 in. ; petiole \ to \ in. long ; buds of the flowers 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, subsessile, rose-coloured, caducous 

 before fully open being destroyed by insects, thick, globular. 



Goltjngo Alto. — Sporadic in dense primitive woods of Mata de 

 Mangue and Prato de Mangue, at the base of the mountains of Serra 

 de Alta Queta, in flower-bud in April, Nov. and Dec. 1855, and without 

 fl. in March. No. 1049. 



Apparently dioecious, with the female flowers solitary, and the male 

 flowers a few together ; there are not good buds extant on the speci- 

 mens separated for the British Museum. It should be compared with 

 the Bitter Cola (G. sp.), Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 65, t. 160 (G. floribunda 

 "Vesque, I.e., p. 488). 



XXII. DIPTEROCAEPE^!. 



1. MONOTES Alph. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. p. 623 (1868). 



1. M. africamis Alph. DC, I.e., p. 624. 



Vatica africana Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 173 ; Welw. 

 Sert. Angol. p. 15, t. 5. 



Var. a. denudans ; V. africana, var. laxa Oliv., I.e. ; V. africana, 

 a. denudans Welw., I.e., p. 16, t. 5, fig. 1. 



Huilla.— Trunk 1£ to 2 in. diam. Frequent in sandy bushy occa- 

 sionally stony places, near the base of the Morro de Lopollo, fl. from 

 Dec. 1859 to Jan. 1860, fr. April and May 1860. No. 1035. 



