144 xxxvu. ilicinejs. [Hex 



Huilla.— A little tree, 8 to 12 ft. high, forming a crown at the top, 

 with spreading ramification ; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, glossy, paler 

 beneath ; margin callous-entire ; flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx 6-cleft ; 

 corolla sympetalous, milk-white, 6-, very rarely 7-clef t ; stamens 6 ; 

 ovary 6-celled ; stigmas 6, sessile, straight, united into a thick hexa- 

 gonal column. In the very elevated woods of Morro de Lopollo, 

 behind Sambo do Ferrao, at 5500 to 5600 ft. of altitude ; fl. Dec. 

 1859, in young fr. Feb. 1860. No. 1443. 



In South Africa the leaves of this plant are sometimes used for tea 

 (Burchell mss.). 



Coll. Carp. 325 contains English specimens of fruits of Ilex Aqui- 

 folium L. collected in Nov. 1869 for comparison. 



XXXVIII. CBLASTRACBiE. 



In the mountainous districts several species of Gymnosporia 

 occur, which are mostly small trees or bushes inhabiting dry 

 and exposed situations among hills or else places destitute of 

 other arboreous vegetation ; in the coast region of Angola proper 

 and also in the districts of Huilla and Bumbo a species of 

 Elceodencbron is occasionally met with. The species of the tribe 

 Hippocratese are handsome shrubby climbers of a varied and for 

 the most part of a glaucous foliage ; in the coast region of Loanda 

 and also in the district of Bumbo a species climbs on Adcmsonia 

 digitata ; in the mountainous and highland districts several species 

 of Hippocratea and Salacia form at times impenetrable thickets 

 at the borders of streams and primitive forests ; and in Pungo 

 Andongo a species of Salacia produces edible fruits as large as a 

 pear. (See Welw. Apont. p. 562, n. 149, and p. 563, n. 150.) 



1. CELASTRUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 364. 



1. C. cassinoides L'Herit. Sert. Angl. p. 6, t. 10 (1788). 

 Gatha Dryandri Lowe, Man. Fl. Madeir. p. 107 (1862). 

 Madeira Island. — A small cultivated tree, 5 to 7 ft. high ; near 



Funchal, without either fl. or fr. August 1853. No. 4616. 



The following specimen, also from Madeira, poorly represented 

 arid without flowers in the British Museum set, may be another 

 form of the same variable species : — 



A tall cultivated shrub, near Funchal, fl. August 1853. No. 4617. 



2. GYMNOSPORIA Wight. & Arn. ■ Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. i. p. 365. 



1. G. gracilipes Loesener in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 541 (1893). 



Celastrus gracilipes Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 361. 



Goltjngo Alto. — An arborescent shrub ; branches and spines 

 purplish ; leaves glossy ; flowers white. In rocky bushy places at the 

 skirts of primitive forests between Sange and Oamilungo, very 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 1357. A small tree ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, membranous ; spines very acute ; capsule red-scarlet. 

 Queta inferior ; fr. Oct. 1855. Coll. Carp. 326. A tree of 15 to 20 

 ft. ; trunk slender ; branches spinous ; leaves herbaceous-green, 

 deciduous. Zenga do Queta ; fr. June 1857. Coll. Carp. 328. 



