Grewia] xxv. tillage.*:. 95 



the apex, half as long as the sepals ; androecium nearly equalling 

 the calyx, shorter than the glabrous shortly lobed style. 



Bumbo. — Among shrubs halfvway up the mountains of Serra da 

 Xella, at Chao da Xella, sporadic ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1382. 



The following probably belong here : — 



Ambriz. — In rocky bushy places between Ambriz and Quisembo, 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 1372. 



Loanda. — A small tree, branched from the base ; branches elongate, 

 spreading ; branchlets virgate ; or a robust shrub with habit of an Alnus, 

 € to 8 ft. high ; leaves rather hard-membranous ; flowers yellow. In 

 damp thickets between Quicuxe and Mutollo, fl. May 1854 ; and near 

 Quicuxe, fl. end of July 1858. No. 1371. Flowers deep yellow, fruits 

 dull red. Among shrubs in the island of Oazanga, near Morro da 

 Cruz (St. Catherina) ; fl. and fr. March 1858. No. 13716. An almost 

 prostrate shrub of 1 to 2 ft. In dry rocky somewhat bushy places near 

 Bemposta ; fl. Feb. 1858. No. 1371c 



Golungo Alto. — A shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, csespitose ; perhaps fresh 

 shoots from the stock of a little tree. At the banks of the river 

 Luinha, in secondary thickets ; without either flowers or fruits, July 

 1856. Nos. 4643, 6726. 



5. G. Chadara Lam. Encyl. Meth. iii. p. 44 (1789). 

 G. populifoKa Vahl. ; Masters, I.e., p. 246. 



Bumbo. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, remarkably resembling Betula, 

 much branched ; branches sarmentose ; fruit brick-red. In thickets at 

 the borders of woods of Leguminosas (" Unteate "), near Bumbo, 

 15° S. Lat., in ripe fruit, June 1860. No. 1378. 



6. G. carpinifolia Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. iv. p. 91, t. 51, f. 1 



(1804) ; Masters, I.e., p. 247. 



G. pilosa Masters, I.e., p. 250, pro parte, non Lam. 



Golungo Alto. — A much-branched shrub, 6 ft. high ; branchlets 

 thin, virgate ; flowers yellow ; rather rare by thickets near Camilungo, 

 fl. March 1855. No. 1376. A slender shrub or rarely a little tree, 

 4 to 15 ft. high, divaricately branched ; younger stem and branches 

 sub-cylindrical, densely verrucose ; adult trunk obtusely quadrangular, 

 deeply 4-furrowed, 8 to 12 in. diam. ; spines strong, very hard, some- 

 times deflexed ; branches and branchlets very slender, horizontally 

 scandent ; flowers saffron-yellow, rather small ; frequent in secondary 

 .woods and thickets, cane-beds, etc., about Sange, Bango Aquitamba, 

 Mussengue, etc., fl. and fr. April 1855, April, June and August 1856. 

 Nos. 1369, 6727. 



Cazbngo. — A shrub, 8 to 10 ft. high ; in the primitive woods of 

 Cambondo, fr. June 1855. No. 4644. 



Pungo Andongo.— Sporadic in thickets by the roadside leading from 

 the fortress towards Cambambe, fl. April 1857. No. 1370. 



7. G. miniata Mast. ms. in Study set. 



G. cyclopetala Masters in Oliv., I.e., p. 248, non Wawra in 

 Wawra et Peyr. Sert. Beng. p. 18 (I860). 



Bumbo. — A twisted shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; leaves green above, white 

 beneath ; fruits cinnabar-red. In thickets at the borders of woods of 

 " Unteate," near Bumbo, by the roadside leading to Quitibe de Cima ; 

 sparingly in fruit June 1860. No. 1377. 



It differs from Wawra's species, to which Dr. Masters had referred 



