Edivardia] xxiv. sterculiaceje. 85 



and on the upper part of the petiole. The description given by 

 Masters of his Cola Afselii states that the flowers are arranged in 

 short terminal clusters, whereas Brown's diagnosis gives the flowers 

 as cauline. 



3. E. heterophylla 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. i. p. 79 (1891). 



Cola heterophylla H. Schott & Endl., Meletemata Bot. p. 33 

 (1832); Masters, I.e., p. 223. 



Golungo Alto and Cazengo. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high or more 

 when growing in primitive forests, or about villages usually a shrub of 

 12 to 15 ft., evergreen, with coriaceous leaves very variable in form. 

 Flowers dioecious, honey scented ; calyx whether of the male or female 

 plant cyathif orm or urceolate-campanulate, cleft one-third way down in 

 4' or 5, usually 4, ovate-triangular lobes, at first erect, after fecundation 

 reflected at the apex ; staminal tube short, a little constricted in the 

 middle, with yellow densely heaped-together anthers. In the female 

 flower the staminal tube is very shortly concrete with the carpophore ; 

 anthers large, whitish, empty, surrounding like a girdle the base of the 

 densely pilose germen. Germen spherical, beset all over with rigid 

 ashy very dense hairs ; style very short, crowned with 5 or occasionally 

 6 scarlet capituliform stigmas, which spread radiately and are in some 

 cases quite connate, and in others more loosely so. Fruit brilliantly 

 velvety-scarlet ; follicles 5 (1 to 6), sessile, spreading in a stellate 

 manner, more or less boat-shaped, filled with an orange-coloured agree- 

 able acidulous pulp which encloses a few seeds. Abundant in tall 

 thickets and moist forests ; fl. Dec. and July, fr. in May 1854, 1855. 

 Native name " Mabuinguiri." No. 4678. A small tree of 15 to 25 ft., 

 with erect branches, leafy at the apex ; flowers tetramerous ; fruit 

 orange-scarlet, edible, as large as a peach ; sporadic in the more ele- 

 vated forests of Sovado de Quilombo and Bango ; female fl. end of 

 Feb. and ripe fr. in March. No. 4679. Coll. Carp. 283. 



See Welwitsch, Apontamentos, p. 559. 



4. ASSONIA Cav. Diss. ii. App. (1786) and Si. p. 120, t. 42 (1787). 

 Bombeya Cav.- (1786), Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. L p. 221, 



non L'Herit. (1784). 



1. A. reticulata 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. i. p. 76 (1891). 



Bombeya reticulccta Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 228. 



Pungo Andongo.— Fl. Nos. 4732, 4733. In No. 4732 the in- 

 florescence much resembles in form that of D. reticulata Masters, but 

 the peduncles had not yet become glabrous, and the cordiform-ovate 

 leaves are not attached to the following branch. No. 4733 is repre- 

 sented by fragments of a leaf and inflorescence, but they may, perhaps, 

 belong to this species. In each No. the style is trifid. 



2. A. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A little bushy tree, with dark-ashy glabrate branches, and 

 somewhat velvety branchlets more or less clothed with pale-tawny 

 stellate-hairy tomentum. Leaves ovate or cordiform, obtuse or 

 subacute at the apex, cordate at the base, not distinctly lobed, 

 irregularly dentate, thickly coriaceous, rather rugose and rough 

 with stellate hairs above, more closely covered with stellate pale- 

 tawny hairs beneath, 5-7-nerved at the base, rather strongly 

 reticulate, 2 to 6 in. long by If to 4| in. wide ; petiole velvety, 

 | to 1| in. long; stipules lanceolate-linear, acute, 5 in. long, 

 deciduous. Inflorescence pilose with very pale-tawny branched 



