Apodytes] xxxvi. olacinejB. 143 



filiform ; stigma truncate-capitate or rarely bilobed ; very rarely there 

 are two styles, or one style bipartite to the base ; fruit (immature) 

 drupaceous, 1- or very rarely 2-lobed ; lobes obovate, compressed, 

 horizontally diverging when 2, the second lobe usually sub-obsolete 

 and marked by its recurved style on one side of the base of the 

 developed lobe ; seed (immature) pendulous, obovate, rather com- 

 pressed ; testa membranous ; umbilicus basilar, looking towards the 

 insertion of the style ; albumen white, copious, loosely fleshy ; embryo 

 very small ; radicle superior, next the umbilicus. In damp elevated 

 woods, at an elevation of 5100 to 5300 ft., in Morro de Lopollo and 

 near Humpata ; fl. and young fr. from Dec. 1859 to Feb. 1860. 

 No. 1128. A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, with dilated crown, with the 

 aspect nearly of a species of Fiens (Herb. 6351). This tree furnishes 

 good wood for handles of agricultural implements, etc., and is strong, 

 tenacious and very durable. In the elevated woods above Lopollo in 

 the direction of Humpata, at an elevation of 5200 to 5500 ft. ; without 

 fl. or fr. Jan, 1860. No. 1129. 



The name of this tree employed by the Portuguese colonists in 

 Huilla is " Figueira brava " (wild fig-tree). 



6. IODES Blume; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 355. 



1. I. africana Welw. ex Oliv. PL Trop. Afr. i. p. 358. 



Golungo Alto. — A widely scandent shrub ; stem narrowed ; with 

 short spreading hispidulous rather rigid hairs ; leaves membranous, 

 dark-green and rather glossy above, rather pale beneath ; petiole 

 strigulose-hispid ; tendrils inter-petiolar ; flowers greenish- white ; 

 calyx of female flowers 5-cleft ; ovary sessile, 1-celled, more or less 

 pilose, crowned with a large, thick, peltate-reniform stigma ; ovules .2, 

 pendulous. At the bushy borders of primitive woods, in the valley of 

 Quibixe, sporadic ; with young female fl. Feb. and March 1856. No. 1506. 



Cazengo. — A weak extensively sarmentose shrub or a far and high 

 climbing herb, glabrate in most parts. In thickets along the river 

 Luinha near Aguas doces, at an elevation of 1800 to 2000 ft. ; in flower- 

 bud, June 1855. No. 1507. 



The two following plants in flower-bud or young flower should 

 be compared with Strombosia BL, Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 348 ; they are apparently undescribed species : — 



Pungo Andongo. — A robust extensively climbing shrub with short 

 trunk 2 in. in. diam., and thickly coriaceous glossy leaves paler beneath. 

 In the rather elevated thickets of Barrancos de Pedra Cazella ; in 

 flower-bud, April 1857. No. 460. 



Bumbo. — A rigid twisted shrub, nearly leafless at the time of 

 gathering ; leaves rather fleshy, brittle. In hilly bushy places, near 

 the upper limit of the littoral region, at the base of Serra da Xella, in 

 the domain of Unteate, rather rare between Quitive and Bumbo ; in 

 young fl. Oct. 1859. No. 468. 



XXXVII. ILICINE^. 

 1. ILEX L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 356. 

 1. I. capensis Sond. & Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 473 

 (I860) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 359. 



Sideroxylon mile L. Syst. Veg. edit. 12, p. 178 (1767). /. mitts 

 Badlk. in Report, Brit. Ass. 1885, p. 1081 (1886). 



