Gymnosporia] xxxviii. celastracEjE. 145 



2. G. andongensis Loesener, I.e., p. 541. 

 CelastrvtA andongensis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 361. 



Pungo Andongo. — Branches lax and spreading. In thickets along 

 the borders of woods in stony places, near Caghuy, sparingly ; fl. and 

 fr., May 1857. No. 1351. In sandy-stony spaces, by the roadside 

 towards Cambambe ; fr., May 1857. No. 1353. 



3. G. senegalensis Loesener, I.e., p. 541. 



Celastrus senegalensis Lam. Encycl. M6th. i. p. 661 (1783); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 361. 



Ambriz. — In rocky places along the sandy sea-shore, by the mouth 

 of the river Loge near Ambriz ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 1361. A 

 small tree, 6 to 7 ft. high, with long spines throughout ; on the stony 

 slopes of Mossul, between Ambriz and Libongo ; without either fl. or 

 fr. Nov. 1853. No. 1364. 



Loanda. — In the more arid shortly bushy hilly parts of the territory 

 of Loanda, not uncommon ; fl. April 1854. No. 1349. A shrub of 4 ft., 

 sometimes shorter, bristling on all sides with spines ; in the dry shortly 

 bushy places at Maianga do Povo, near the city of Loanda ; without 

 either fl. or fr. Nov. 1857. No. 1352. A small much-branched tree 

 with the habit of Cratcegus, or a shrub of 4 to 5 ft. or rarely as tall as 

 a man, evergreen, bristling with stout spines ; branches whitish, striate ; 

 flowers hermaphrodite, yellowish or white ; fruit red ; seeds erect, 

 wrapped in a sulphur- or orange-coloured aril ; testa rather hard ; 

 albumen copious ; embryo the height of the seed ; common throughout 

 the district, in bushy hilly places, roadway near Quicuxe, fl. and fr. 

 May 1858 ; at Penedo, fl. and young fr. 13 Oct. 1857. No. 1360. 



Icolo e Bengo. — In rather dry bushy spaces near Lagoa da Funda, 

 after the fall of the flowers, Sept. 1857. No. 1350. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, 5 to 7 ft. high ; trunk 2 to 3 in. in 

 diam. at the base, branched; flowers of a pale sulphur-yellow, colour. 

 In the rather dry elevated reedy thickets of Sobato de Quilombo, fl. 

 middle of July 1856. No. 6723. 



Zenza do Golungo. — A small tree, 7 to 10 ft. high, with spinous 

 distorted branches and white flowers ; in stony tall-bushy hilly places 

 between Calumguembo and Muchao, rather frequent ; in late fl. and in 

 f r., Sept. 1854. No. 1354a. A small tree, 8 to 10 ft. high, with straight 

 trunk, patent branches and whitish flowers ; ovary 3-celled ; in exposed 

 as well as bushy stony dry wooded places, from the left bank of the 

 river Chixe to Calumguembo, mountains of Mongollo, frequent, fl. 

 Sept. 1857. No. 13546. 



Ambaca. — In hilly places on the left bank of the river Caringa, in 

 company with a species of Parinarium, frequent but sterile ; June 

 1855. No. 1355. 



Pungo Andongo. — A tree, 15 ft. high, widely and divaricately 

 branched ; trunk 8 in. in diam. at the base ; leaves arranged after the 

 manner of the phyllodes of Acacia. In woods between the fortress and 

 Sobato Cabanga Quiquetta, without either fl. or f r. Jan. 1857. Np. 1356. 



Mossamedes. — A hard spinous shrub, apparently arborescent, with 

 patent branches and branchlets and rose-whitish flowers. In dry 

 mountainous rocky situations on the right bank of the river Maiombo 

 at a place called A Cazimba, fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1267. A shrub, 3 to 

 4 ft. high, of a glaucous-whitish hue, with white flowers. In stony 

 declivities near Pomangala, in company with Capparidese and Balanites, 

 at an elevation of 500 to 600 ft., nearly without fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1362. 



Huilla. — A shrub, 1 to 1J ft. high, with crowded stems, white 



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