Oc/wia] XXXII. OCHNACE.E. 121 



Golungo Alto. — Not uncommon, in rather dense woods of Sobato 

 •de Bumba and Serra de Alto Queta, at Capopa ; with ripe fruit at the 

 beginning of June 1856. No. 4601. Coll. Oaep. 306. 



The following is very doubtful ; it apparently belongs to this 

 •Order, and is perhaps best mentioned under this species : — 



Cazengo. — At Muxaula, in fruit. No. 4698. 



2. 0. pulchra Hook Ic. PL t. 588 (1843) (pulchrum); Oliv. FL 

 Trop. Air. i. p. 317. 



Huilla. — A small glabrous tree, 5 to 8 ft. high, with divaricate 

 branches and irregular ashy bark ; leaves obovate-oval, rounded and 

 subapiculate or retuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate 

 base, firmly coriaceous, subentire or spinulose-serrulate, smooth, 2 to 3| 

 by } to 1$ in. ; petiole £ to \ in. long ; stipules narrowly linear, \ to 

 £ in. long, deciduous ; racemes many-flowered, 1^ to 2J in. long, ter- 

 minating the lateral branches ; pedicels f to 1 in. long, articulated at 

 the base ; flowers depresso-globose, } to f in. diam. after the fall of the 

 petals ; sepals rounded, concave, £ in. long ; anthers oblong, rather 

 shorter than the filaments, dehiscing by apical pores ; carpels 7 ; style 

 cleft from the apex. In woods of Proteacese, near Mumpulla, rather 

 rare and sporadic ; in late fl. or young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4598. 



3. 0. Afzelii Br. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 319. 



0. Welwitschii Rolfe in Henr. Bol. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 84 (1893). 

 .ex parte. 



Pungo Andongo. — Without notes. In young fruit. No. 4597. 



4. 0. Welwitschii Rolfe in Henr. Bol. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 84 

 {1893) ex parte. 



Golungo Alto. — A glabrous tree, 10 to 15 ft. high, with trunk 

 3 to 5 in. diam. at the base and patent branches ; leaves deciduous, 

 not fully developed at the time of the opening of the flowers, obovate- 

 oblong, obtusely narrowed or slightly and obtusely acuminate at the 

 apex, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, crenate-serrulate with teeth 

 tipped by a small apiculus directed upwards and towards the adjacent 

 sinus, shortly petiolate, thinly coriaceous in the adult state, 3 to 6 by 

 1£ to 1* in. ; venation delicately marked on both surfaces, meandering ; 

 stipules small, ovate, caducous ; flowers greenish, fascicled at the 

 extremities of short lateral shoots ; pedicels 3 to 8 together, \ to | in. 

 long ; sepals oval, obtuse, \ in. long in flower, enlarged in fruit ; petals 

 caducous (not seen) ; stamens numerous ; anthers oblong, dehiscing 

 by lateral slits ; carpels 7 to 10 ; style undivided. At the margins of 

 woods, among the mountains of the Eastern Queta, fl. and young fr. 

 Feb. and March 1855. No. 4594. At Quilombo-Quiacatubia, without 

 flowers or fruits, middle of July 1856. No. 4595. 



The affinity of this species appears to be with O. leptoclada Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. p. 318. 



5. 0. gracilipes Hiern, sp. n. 



A small glabrous shrub, 4 in. high ; branches divaricate, covered 

 with uneven bark ; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped at the subsessile or shortly petiolate base, serrulate, firmly 

 chartaceous, 2 to 3 by § to | in. ; tertiary veins pellucid ; stipules 

 cleft, very deciduous ; flowers yellow, fascicled a few together on 

 abbreviated axillary or lateral shoots ; peduncles slender, § to 1 in. 



