Lecaniodiscus] xli. sapindace,e. 171 



7. LECANIODISCUS Planch.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 402. 



1. L. cupanioides Planch, ex Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 251 

 {1849). 



Goltjngo Alto. — An elegant tree, 8 to 20 ft. high ; trunk attaining 

 4 in. diam. ; branches spreading ; leaves crowded at the apex of the 

 branches, impari-pinnate ; flowers dioecious ; very sweetly fragrant, 

 milk-white or almost white-bluish. Rachis of the long male racemes 

 angular, channelled ; calyx- segments imbricate at the flowering ; petals 

 ; stamens 10 or 9 or 8 (or in the female flower 12, abortive); filaments 

 filiform ; anthers basifixed, introrse ; disk thick, waxy, green-yellowish ; 

 ovary ovoid, hispid, rudimentary ; style ; stigma thick, capitate. In 

 primitive forests at the banks of the stream Delamboa, not abundant ; 

 and by thickets in Sobato Mossengue, rare ; male fl. end of March, ripe 

 fr. beginning of Nov. 1855. Nos. 4632, 6683. A moderate-sized tree. 

 In forests on the right bank of the stream Delamboa ; female fl. and 

 young fr. June 1855. No. 6684. A shrub of 6 ft. with an erect trunk 

 or perhaps a young tree. Sporadic in little dense secondary woods at 

 the base of Serra de Alto Queta ; young fr. April 1855. Determination 

 doubtful. No. 1274. 



8. PHIALODISCUS Eadlk. in Sitz. Akad. Muench. ix. (1879), 

 p. 497. 



1. P. plurijugatus Eadlk. in Sitz. Akad. Muench. xx. (1890), 

 p. 263. 



Golungo Alto. — A copiously leafy tree, 12 to 15 ft. high, with 

 spreading branches. In very dense forests among the mountains of 

 Serra de Alto Queta ; without either fl. or fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4519. 

 In flower-bud. No. 4520. Without either fl. or fr. No. 4522. A 

 tree, 25 to 30 ft. high ; trunk 2 to 3 ft. in diameter at the base ; 

 branches spreading ; crown ovoid ; leaves bijugate. In the more 

 elevated forests, mountains of Queta, Carengue ; in flower-bud Sept. 

 1856. Native name, used in a collective sense, " Cachique." No. 6676. 

 A small tree ; Coffea melanocarpa plantation, Caculo ; capsule, beginning 

 of Sept. 1855. Appears to belong to this species. Coll. Carp. 349. 



Cazengo. — A tree of 8 to 12 ft. ; trunk 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches 

 rather erect. At the borders of primitive forests near Cambondo and 

 Caculo, sporadic ; fr. Dec. 1854. No. 4521. A tree, 8 to 10 ft. high ; 

 branchlets more or less nodose, twisted ; flowers destroyed by insects. 

 Near Caculo, by secondary wooded thickets, June 1855. No. 4523. 



2. P. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



Branches woody, terete, glabrous, dull; branchlets dull grey- 

 green, slightly puberulous towards the apex; leaves alternate, 

 exstipulate, mostly pari-pinnate and 4- jugate, 8 to 14 in. long ; 

 petiole angular, subglabrate, 1 to 2 1 in. long ; leaflets mostly 

 opposite, more or less elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate at the 

 apex, often unequally narrowed at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 entire or subentire, dark-green on both surfaces, 3| to 8 in. long 

 by 1 1 to 2 J in. broad; lateral veins in 7 to 12 pairs, in relief on 

 the lower surface and impressed on the upper surface ; petiolules 

 \ to 3 in. Male inflorescence in terminal paniculate spikes, about 

 4 in. long and broad, somewhat tawny-tomentellous ; ultimate 

 pedicels very short ; bracteoles small, ovate ; flowers hemispherical, 

 ^ to £ in. diam. ; calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes ovate, shortly tomen- 



