168 xli. SAPINDACE.E. [Allophylus 



Pending a monographic treatment of the genus, I mention all 

 of Welwitsch's specimens under this species; it appears to me 

 impossible to keep Schmidelia affinis Guill. & Perr. distinct from it, 

 and in other respects the arrangement of the genus in the Flora 

 of Tropical Africa requires revision. 



Golungo Alto. — A shrub of a man's height, dispersedly branched, 

 with trifoliolate leaves confined to the apex of the branches, and white 

 flowers. In the thickets of ITndelle, in shady situations ; fl. end of 

 June 1855. No. 4508. A shrub or sometimes almost a tree ; branches 

 twisted, nodulose, flexuous ; leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets membranous, 

 smooth and glossy above ; flowers white ; calyx-segments 2 herbaceous 

 and 2 petaloid, all concave ; petals 4, woolly within ; 2 glands thick, 

 truncate, yellow. In the dense forests of Queta ; young fl. Jan. 1856. 

 No. 4509. In the primitive forests of Sobato Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; 

 fl. end of Jan. 1856. No. 4510. A slender shrub, sometimes sub- 

 scandent with elongated sarmentose branches ; flowers whitish ; fruit 

 juicy, scarlet. In the primitive forests of Quilombo, sporadic ; fl. and 

 fr. April and May 1856. No. 4511. No notes. Fl. No. 6682. The 

 specimens from this district, as also No. 4512 from Pungo Andongo, 

 approach A. rubifolius Engl. (Schmidelia rubifolia Hochst., Baker, I.e., 

 p. 423). 



Cazengo. — A little tree or tall shrub, 8 to 10 ft. high, with spreading 

 branches and reddish fruit. In dry situations at the skirts of the 

 forests between Cabondo and Caculo ; fr. June 1855. No. 4513. 



Pungo Andongo. — A shrub or small tree, with white flowers. In 

 the denser forests of Mata de Pedra Cabondo, within, the fortress ; 

 fl. April 1857. No. 4512. A tall tree, 35 to 40 ft. high ; branches lax 

 and rambling ; young fruit green, pea-shaped ; sporadic, at the banks 

 of the river Ouanza, between Oandumba . and Lombe ; young fr. 

 beginning of March 1857. No. 4514. Mata de Pungo : flower-bud 

 Dec. 1856. No. 4515. 



The following perhaps also belongs here : — 



Golungo Alto. — A climbing shrub, with the habit of Frangula 

 (Rhamnoid) ; flowers ashy-whitish ; berries black, of the size and 

 shape of a pepper-corn. Alto Queta ; fr. Dec. 1855. Coll. Carp. 337. 



4. DEINBOLLIA Schum. ; Benth. k Hook, f . Gen. PL i. p. 405. 



1. D. cuneifolia Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 432. 



Golungo Alto. — A shrub of 3 to 5 ft., or perhaps a young tree ; 

 leaves evergreen, paripinnate, coriaceous ; petiole much thickened at 

 its insertion. In the male flowers calyx-segments 5, broadly ovate, 

 fleshy, concave, more or less ciliate at the margin, of unequal length, 

 imbricate ; petals 5, obovate, rather fleshy, white, inserted around the 

 base of the thick disk, sessile, with their imbricate margins connivent 

 in an urceolate manner around the bundle of filaments, fimbriate-ciliate 

 on the margin especially toward the apex, alternating with the calyx- 

 segments ; stamens 15 to 20 (?) (16 in one case), inserted on the flat 

 part of the torus and around the rudiments of the ovary, erect, sub- 

 exserted ; filaments somewhat flattened, whitish, beset with long rigid 

 hairs directed upwards ; anthers yellow, ovoid, 2-celled ; cells longitudi- 

 nally dehiscing ; rudiment of the ovary consisting of conspicuously 

 brown-hirsute styles. At the skirts of forests and of palm-groves, 

 between Sange and Menha-Lula ; male fl. 23 July 1855. No. 4524. 



The following five Nos. perhaps belong to the same species, 



