138 xxxv. dichapetalace^e. [Dichapetakm 



Oazengo. — A subscandent shrub ; leaves rather rigid, deep-green 

 above. In primitive forests near Cacula and Cambondo ; in flower-bud 

 June 1855. No. 4663. 



4. D. crassifolium Chodat, I.e., p. 672. 



A robust scandent shrub with spreading branches, glabres- 

 cent except the flowering and fruiting parts ; leaves oval, obtusely- 

 cuspidate or apiculate, obtuse or wedge-shaped at the base, toughly 

 coriaceous, glossy, of nearly the same colour on both surfaces, 2| 

 to 5 1 by 1 1 to 3 in. ; lateral veins 4 to 6 on each side of the mid- 

 rib, as well as the net-veins clearly marked on the lower surface, 

 less conspicuous on the upper surface ; petiole | to § in. ; stipules 

 very caducous ; flowers clustered in dense cymes, in the axils and 

 at the extremities of the branchlets, ashy-milk-white and very 

 shortly tomentose in bud ; common peduncle ranging in fruit up 

 to nearly 1 in., shorter in flower ; pedicels in fruit ranging up to 

 § in., very short in flower-bud; buds globose, small; petals 5, a 

 little longer than the calyx-segments, faintly emarginate in the 

 bud, not clawed as shown by the remains on the fruit; ovary 

 superior, hairy, 3-celled; style 3-lobed at the apex; ovules ger- 

 minate, laterally attached, ascending?, collateral; fruit 1-2- or 

 very rarely 3-lobed, usually 1-lobed, covered with a short pale- 

 tawny subcanescent evanescent tomentum, turning red; lobes 

 obovoid, oblique, about 1 in. long, 1 -celled, based by the persistent 

 calyx and often also by the remains of the petals and stamens ; 

 remains of the style lateral. 



Cazengo. — In the primitive woods of Oabondo ; in flower-bud and 

 fruit, June 1855. No. 4665. 



Pungo Andongo. — In shady places among rocks by thickets within 

 the fortress ; with young fruit in the middle of Nov. 1856. No. 4666. 



5. D. fructuosum Hiern, sp. n. 



A scandent shrub, glabrescent except the puberulous extremities 

 and the (flowering and) fruiting parts ; branchlets erect-patent ; 

 leaves elliptical, prolonged at the apex into an obtuse acumen, 

 somewhat narrowed or more or less wedge-shaped at the base, 

 firmly coriaceous, glossy and sub-glaucescent on both surfaces, 

 2 to 4 by | to 2 in. ; petiole ^ to £ in. long ; stipules subulate, 

 about -Jg- in. . long, deciduous ; infructescence lax, axillary and 

 subterminal, forming somewhat leafy and quasi -terminal panicles ; 

 primary peduncle of each axillary cyme about 1 in. long ; young 

 fruits numerous, ventricosely oval, rather compressed, about \ in. 

 long, g to f in. broad, \ to \ in. thick (in the dry state), red, 

 shortly and closely hairy, 1-celled, 1 -seeded; remains of calyx 

 inferior, sub-lateral ; remains of style sub-lateral ; seed is in the 

 genus. 



Cazengo. — In primitive woods near Cabondo, in company with 

 Clematis pseudograndiflora O. Kuntz (Welw. Herb. 1218) and Coffea ; 

 in young fruit, June 1855. No. 1233. 



6. D hypoleucum Hiern, sp. n. 



Branchlets patent, glabrescent below, at the extremities clothed 



