Hannoa] xxxt. simarube^e. 119 



the rachis ; midrib prominent beneath, lateral veins nearly parallel, 

 sub-horizontal, not prominent ; panicles terminal or axillary, shorter 

 than or exceeding the leaves, -J to 1£ ft. long ; common peduncle com- 

 pressed, 2-edged ; flowers whitish or pale-yellowish, scarcely scented, 

 cymulose-fasciculate ; buds white ; calyx globose, at first closed, after- 

 wards irregularly bursting into 4 or 5 rather deep segments which 

 cohere in pairs to a great part of their height ; petals 5, imbricate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, yellowish outside, sessile, inserted around the cup- 

 shaped disk ; stamens 10, exserted, inserted with the petals and alter- 

 nate with them ; filaments mounted on the back of a flattened elongated 

 scale bearded at the apex ; ovary sunk in a fleshy pentagonal cup, pen- 

 tagonal with obtuse very salient angles ; style rather thick, crowned 

 with 3 very small red stigmas. (In another flower, 3 sterile carpels 

 appeared to exist within the fleshy cup.) The fruit is enjoyed by 

 green parrots. In the damp rather elevated primitive forests of Serra 

 de Alto Queta, sporadic ; fl. middle of May 1855, f r. July 1855. No. 1707. 

 A branch with foliage of a young tree, in the same locality ; 26 Sept. 

 1855 and July 1856. No. 17076. 



The following specimen of a small tree should be compared 

 with Hannoa undulata PL, and apparently belongs to that species ; 

 it is without flower or fruit ; the leaves are glabrous, alternate, 24 to 

 31 in. long, petiole 4J to 7 in., leaflets 14 to 19, the lateral ones, 

 opposite, 3 to 7| in. long, the older ones ferruginous beneath. : — 



Golungo Alto. — Queta, July 1855. No. 4541. 



2. BEUCEA Mill.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 311. 



1. B. antidysenterica J. P. Miller, Ic. Animal, et Plant, t. 25 

 (1779) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Air. i. p. 309. 



B.ferruginea L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. Ic. p. 19, t. 10 (1784-85). 



Pungo Andongo. — A shrub of 4 ft. (or perhaps the up-growth from 

 the stump of a mutilated tree) ; unripe drupes green, 1-seeded ; spo- 

 radic, in secondary thickets within the lines of the fortifications, near 

 Catete, Jan. 1857. No. 1246. 



3. AGIALID Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 508 (1763). Balanites 

 Delile; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 314. 



1. A. segyptiaca O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 103 (Agialida). 



Balanites cegyptiaca Delile Fl. Egypt, pp. 61, 221, t. 28, f. 1 

 (1812) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 315. 



Var. /?. angolensis (Welw. Apont. p. 585, n. 22 ; Oliv., I.e.). 



Balanites (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 560, under n. 141. 



Ambriz. — Occasionally in hilly places between Ambriz and Qui- 

 sembo, sparingly in flower Nov. 1853. No. 17056. 



Barra do Bengo, Loanda, and Icolo e Bengo. — A much-branched 

 shrub or small tree, 4 to 12 ft. high, very spiny in poor ground but in 

 damp and rich soil sparingly spiny ; trunk straight ; leaves grey-green, 

 coriaceous ; flowers greenish ; fruit of the size and shape of a moderate 

 hazel-nut and of a bright orange-colour, not eaten by the negroes ; 

 endocarp thin, crustaceous. Frequent in dry hilly places, flowering 

 and fruiting nearly the whole year, usually in company with Cap- 

 paridese, around Loanda, Cacuaco, etc., to Prata. No. 1705. Coll. 

 Carp. 305 and 320. 



