86 xxiv. sterculiacejb. [Assonia 



hairs, axillary in the axils of the upper leaves or lateral on the 

 young shoots before the appearance of the leaves, repeatedly 

 forked, many-flowered, sometimes with a single flower in a fork, 

 1 £ to 2 in. long ; pedicels ranging up to | in. long, mostly short ; 

 bracteoles small, deciduous. Flowers white, nearly \ in. long; 

 calyx-segments lanceolate, stellate-hairy outside, glabrous inside, 

 nearly | in. long ; petals broad, white ; stamens united only near 

 the base, fertile ones 15?; styles divided into 3 branches nearly 

 from the base ; ovary hairy. 



Huilla. — At the skirts of forests, in the road leading towards 

 Quipungo ; in flower without leaves in May 1860, in leaf at the end of 

 May 1860. No. 4726. "Very abundant in the drier forests, everywhere 

 around Lopollo, with white flowers and with foliage at the end of 

 May 1860. No. 4727- In the rocky wooded parts of Morro de Lopollo ; 

 a little low tree, in leaf without flowers, March 1860. No. 4728. 



This species differs from Xeropetalum multiflorum Endl. by the pilose 

 and more crowded inflorescence with broader petals ; the leaves also are 

 much larger, but the increased size is perhaps explained by their being 

 fully developed in our specimens, but young in those seen by Endlicher. 



3. A. cnanzeusis Hiern. 



Dombeya (Xeropetalum) cuanzensis Welw. ex Ficalho, PL Ut. 

 p. 109 (1884). 



A small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high or occasionally more ; trunk, | to 

 1 ft. in diameter near the base ; bark deeply rimose, very rough ; 

 branches patently divaricate, tortuous ; branches leafy, especially 

 towards the apex. Leaves sub-orbicular or cordiform, often 

 slightly 3-lobed near the apex, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 

 more or less deeply cordate at the base, irregularly dentate or 

 sometimes sinuous-lobulate, firmly coriaceous, stellate-hairy espe- 

 cially beneath, becoming harsh above, about 9-nerved at the base, 

 4 to 8 in. long by 4 to 6^ in. wide, crowded at the extremities of 

 the branchlets ; petiole more or less tomentose with pallid shaggy 

 and stellate hairs, 1 to 5 in. long ; stipules ovate, hairy outside, 

 ^ to ^ in. long, deciduous. Inflorescence shaggy-tomentose with 

 pale hairs, much branched, corymbosely cymose, sub-terminal 

 near the tips of the branchlets, 4 to 6 in. in diameter, many- 

 flowered ; peduncle 2 to 4 in. long ; pedicels ranging up to § in. 

 long; bracteoles very narrow, deciduous, hairy. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, often more or less drooping, f to f in. long ; calyx 

 shaggy outside, glabrous inside, I in. long, deeply and unequally 

 cleft, lobes lanceolate or ovate, valvate ; calycine bracts narrow, 

 deciduous; corolla, J to 1 in. in diameter, glabrous, brightly 

 white, petals 5, unequal-sided, broadly obovate, sinistrorsely con- 

 torted in aestivation; stamens 20, united only near the base, 

 15 fertile and 5 sterile, the latter the longer, 3 fertile ones alter- 

 nating with 1 sterile, anthers introrse; style 3-4-cleft not more 

 than half-way down, lobes stigmatose on the inner side. 



Pungo Andongo. — Very abundant in open woods along the banks 

 of the river Cuanza, from Sansamanda as far as Condo ; in fl. and 

 leaf 1 May 1857. Native name " Mututu " or " Catutu." No. 4735. 

 Calunda, Jan. 1857 ; leafy shoots, apparently belonging here. No. 4736. 



