Ahaya] xxxiv. meliaceje. 135 



8. KHAYA A. Juss. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 338. 



1. K. anthotheca 0. DC. in D.C. Monogr. Phanerog. i. p. 721 

 (1878). Garretia anthoteca Welw. Apont. p, 587, n. 49. G. An- 

 thotheca Welw. Synopse p. 33, under n. 80. Khaya ?, sp. n., 

 Welw. Synopse, p. 12, n. 26. 



Golungo Alto, etc. — A majestic and beautiful tree, 30 to 60 ft. 

 high and even higher ; trunk 2 to 4 ft. in diam. at the base ; timber 

 aromatic, white, valuable, much like that of Entandrophragma angolense ; 

 bark the bitterest of all examined by Welwitsch in the interior of 

 Angola, deserving attention for its antifebrile quality and as a 

 succedaneum to quinine-bark ; crown ovoid, glossy -f rondose ; branches 

 patent or erect-patent, chiefly leafy towards the extremities ; branch- 

 lets springing from the trunk and branches at a right angle, marked 

 with scars. Leaves 5-10-jugate, caducous at the time of flowering, 

 persistent during fruit, almost always much mutilated by insects ; 

 rachis reddish, near the base acutely winged ; leaflets obovate, obtuse, 

 cuspidate or emarginate, dry-coriaceous, hard, glossy, glaucous-greenish 

 beneath ; midrib acutely keeled, the iateral veins reddish. Panicles 

 1 to 2 ft. long, crowded at the ends of the branches, erect ; primary and 

 secondary peduncles compressed, 2-edged. Flowers white, tetramerous ; 

 sepals 4, reniform-rotundate, decussately imbricate, green, more or less 

 scarious on the edges, several times shorter than the corolla ; petals 4, 

 convolute in the bud as well as in flower, erect, ventricose-concave. 

 Stamens combined into a ventricose-cylindrical tube as long as the 

 petals and closed at the orifice of the tube by means of the peltate- 

 discoid stigma ; staminal tube 8-toothed ; teeth obtuse, convolute, con- 

 nivent in flower towards the margin of the stigma ; filaments almost 

 obsolete ; anthers 8, attached a little below the teeth of the tube and 

 alternating with them, dark brown, shortly oblong, introrse, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally ; disk large, orange-coloured, rather flat, sur- 

 rounding like a ring the base of the ovary ; ovary conical, 4-celled, 

 dilated at the apex into a thick discoid rather flat radiate stigma, 

 stigmatose at the margin. Native name " Cababa " or " Quibaba " of 

 Mussengue or of Hungo. Cissus aralioides PL (Welw. Herb. 1484) 

 climbs upon this species. In the more elevated primitive woods of the 

 mountains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. 18 Nov. 1855, fr. Feb. 1856. 

 No. 1314. Fruit capsular, size of a hen's egg, woody, septifragal from 

 the apex ; valves 4, ovate-acuminate, bi -lamellate (one layer septif erous 

 with the tetragonous axis), almost simulating a flower. In the primi- 

 tive forests of the districts Golungo Alto and Dembos, especially in 

 Sobato Mussengue ; seeds at the end of June 1857 and fully ripe in 

 July 1857. Coll. Caep. 317. Bark and fruit, Coll. Carp. 318. 



The species occurs in great abundance in the district of the Mahungos. 

 It is the plant referred to by Welwitsch, Apont. p. 561 under n. 144, as 

 forming a new genus of Cedrelaceas. 



9. ENTANDROPHRAGMA C. DC. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 

 p. 582, t. 21 (Sept, 1894). 



1. E. angolense C. DC, I.e. 



Swietenia angolensis Welw. Apont. p. 561 under n. 144, p. 587, 

 n. 46; Welw. Synopse, p. 11, n. 21, p. 31, n. 75; C. DC. in 

 DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. p. 724 (1878). 



Golungo Alto. — An immense lofty very beautiful tree with 

 deciduous leaves ; bark bitter and astringent ; trunk 3 or 4 ft. diam. ; 



