94 xxv. tiliace*. [Grewia 



Loan da.— An elegant tree-like shrub, 6 ft. high, with the habit of 

 Rhamnus Frangula L., much branched in a divaricate manner. Native 

 name " Mutamba " or " Itamba." It furnishes material for ropes and 

 bows. In the rocky maritime parts of Praia de Zamba Grande, to the 

 south-west of the city of Loanda, fl. Feb. 1854. No. 1373. 



2. G. Avellana Hiern, sp. n. 



G. guazumifoUa, Masters, I.e., p. 245, quoad specimen Welw., 

 non Juss. 



Leaves broadly obovate-oval, subcuspidate, at the rather oblique 

 base subcordate and 3 -nerved, rather rough above with numerous 

 elevated puberulous points, net-veined, scarcely paler and with 

 less elevated puberulous points beneath, 2 to 3 by 1| to 2 in. ; 

 margins obtusely serrate and sub-repand ; petiole about \ in. long, 

 hairy; stipules subulate, suberect, \ in. long. Hairs mostly stellate. 

 Fruit-peduncle leaf-opposed, pendulous, scarcely 1 in. long, brac- 

 teate at about two-thirds from the base ; bracts subulate, rather 

 shorter than the stipules. Fruit solitary, depresso-globose, nearly 

 1 in. diam., reddish, white-purple with white hairs at the apex ; 

 seeds pale orange. 



Huilla. — An erect little shrub, 1 to 1£ ft. high, or probably a 

 secondary shoot of a stout shrub. In wooded rocky thickets in Morro 

 de Lopollo, fr. middle of Dec. 1859. No. 4642. 



Eepresented in the British Museum by a single leaf and a drawing. 



3. G. megalocarpa P. de Beauv. Fl. d'Ow. ii. p. 69, t. 102 

 {1807); Masters, I.e., p. 245. 



Huilla. — Branches much spreading and twisting ; flowers whitish. 

 In the rocky thickets of Morro de Lopollo ; in flower, in company with 

 Sarcostemma, Feb. 1860, in flower and very sparingly in fruit, in com- 

 pany with Xylopicrum odoratissimum O.K. ; common at the beginning 

 of April 1860. No. 1374. A shrub, 1 ft. high, with several erect stems. 

 In the elevated shortly bushy pastures of Empalanca, between Lopollo 

 and Humpata, fl. April 1860. No. 1381. A shrub, J to 5 ft. high ; 

 flower white, large ; fruit red ; Feb. 1860. Coll. Carp. 289. 



4. G. lasioelada Welw. ms. 



G. inasquilatera Masters, I.e., p. 245, pro parte, non Garcke. 



A shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; branches spreading, subglabrescent, 

 towards the extremities clothed with pale-tawny woolly-cottony 

 fringed or stellif orm hairs ; leaves oval- or obovate-oblong, shortly 

 acute or obtuse at the apex, obtuse rounded or truncate and 

 very oblique at the base, subglabrate (except the nerves) above, 

 pale and closely beset with short stellate hairs beneath, thinly 

 coriaceous, 2 to 3 in. long by 1 to If in. broad, serrulate with 

 the serrations quasi gland-typed ; petiole £ to \ in. long, hairy ; 

 stipules g in. long, subulate at the apex, dilated about the middle, 

 narrowed at the base, hairy on the back, deciduous; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together, hairy like the branchlets 

 and petioles, f to 1 in. long, bearing about 3 short pedicels at the 

 apex and one or more ovate bracteoles g to £ in. long ; pedicels 

 \ in. long or less ; flowers yellow, rather large and fleshy ; sepals 

 linear-oblong, g to § in. wide ; petals broadly obovate, notched at 



