176 xlii. anacardiacEjE. [Spondias 



Golungo Alto. — Trombeta, Feb. 1856. Native name " Muguengue." 

 Endocarp of fruit fibrous outside, 1 in. long, j in. broad, § in. thick, 

 ■with small cells. Coll. Carp. 360. A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, with a 

 handsome head ; flowers (hermaphrodite) white ; fruit shaped like a 

 cherry, sweet-acidulous, of a bright yellow-orange colour ; spontaneous 

 and cultivated. Coll. Carp. 361. 



Pungo Andongo. — By native villages frequently cultivated near 

 Pungo Andongo, and wild in Ambaca. Coll. Carp. 359. 



See Welwitsch, Synopse, p. 13, n. 28, Apontamentos, p. 565. 



The two following Nos., one represented in the British Museum 

 set by imperfect foliage and a young fruit, and the other by leafy 

 branches only, may perhaps belong to this species : — 



Golongo Alto.— A tree, 80 ft. high ; in the midst of the forest 

 near Cungulungulo, Feb. 1855; native name "Muguenga." No. 4445. 

 A young tree (?), 3 ft. high ; Zengas de Queta, May 1856. No. 6673. 



Four out of the five references, which Linnaeus quotes for this, the 

 only species, of Spondias in Sp. PI. edit. 1, belong to the S. lutea of 

 the second edition. 



4. SCLEROCARYA Hochst. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 427. 



1. S. caffra Sonder in Linnsea xxiii. p. 26 (1850) (Sclerocarpa) ; 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 449 ; Engl., I.e., p. 257. 



Bumbo. — Gongo ; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4441. 



This species is truly said by its author to be nearly related to S. Birrea 

 Hochst., with which indeed Welwitsch's specimens very nearly agree. 

 In Bumbo it affords an intoxicating drink. 



5. PSEUDOSPONDIAS Engler in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iv. 

 p. 258 (1883). 



1. P. mieroearpa Engl., I.e., p. 259, t. viii. fig. 1-6. 



Spondias mieroearpa A. Rich, in Quill. & Perr. Fl. Senegamb. 

 Tent. p. 151, t. 40 (1832); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 448. 



Golungo Alto.— A vast tree, attaining 120 ft. in height and more, 

 producing fruit twice annually, in March and Sept. ; fruit like a small 

 plum, of a deep-blue colour outside when ripe, greedily eaten by the 

 natives ; at the banks of the Quiapose, 4 June 1855. Native name 

 " Pao Musondo." No. 4453. Abundant both in primitive and second- 

 ary woods ; at Sange, in fl. June 1855. No. 4454. A lofty tree, with a 

 straight trunk 2 to 2£ ft. in diam., 40 to 70 ft. high ; head broad ; 

 branches spreading, sometimes quite patent ; leaflets hard-coriaceous, 

 rather shining, a little paler on the lower surface ; flowers white ; calyx 

 small, yellowish-white, deeply 4-lobed ; segments obovate-eiliptical, 

 concave, equal ; petals 4, inserted beneath a rather thick orbicular 

 obtusely 8^crenate disk, much longer than the calyx-segments, wide at 

 the base, sessile, ovate-elliptical, imbricate in aestivation, of a pale- 

 sulphur colour ; stamens 8, inserted below the disk, shorter than the 

 corolla ; filaments a little flattened at the base, filiform, subulate- 

 acuminate at the apex ; anthers cordate, introrse, 2-celled, longitudinally 

 dehiscing ; styles 3 or 4, short, thick, obtuse, connivent upwards, almost 

 agglutinated together, stigmatose at the very obtuse apex ; drupe juicy, 

 of a fine blue colour outside, of the shape and size of an olive, without 

 either spines or tubercles. Abundant in primitive forests throughout 

 the district ; Sobato Mussengue, in fl. in the middle of Feb. 1856, 

 at Cungulungulo, in fr. at the beginning of Feb. 1855. Native name 

 " Musondo." No. 4455. In flower. No. 4456. 



