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somewhat tortuous ; flowering branchlets purplish, angular (in trans- 

 verse section), clothed with a very thin tomentum ; leaves opposite 

 ternate or sub-opposite, coriaceous, lanceolate-elliptical, deep-green 

 above, very thinly silvery-puberulous beneath, penninerved, evergreen ; 

 flowers white ; calyx pentaphyllous, greenish-pubescent ; corolla of 5 

 erect whitish petals double as long as the calyx, valvate-imbricate in 

 aestivation, inserted under the disk, alternating with the calyx-seg- 

 ments ; stamens 5, inserted with the petals, with filiform filaments and 

 small white ovate anthers ; disk cup-shaped, 5-angled, thin, with a red 

 margin ; ovary widely obovoid, compressed, 1-celled ; style scarcely 

 any ; stigma fleshy, very shortly 3-radiate, with patent rays compressed- 

 capitulate at the apex and then stigmatose ; ovule 1 ; fruit compressed, 

 broader than high, sub-bilobed, 1-seeded ; seed ascending. This tree 

 furnishes very fine charcoal. Abundant in woods about the fortress of 

 Pungo Andongo, in secondary thickets occurring as a shrub of 5 to 7 ft. 

 in height ; fl. end of March 1859. No. 4405. In bushy situations 

 between the fortress of Pungo Andongo and Catete ; fr. Nov. 1856. 

 The tree is called " Quitundo." No. 4406. Cazella ; seeds Nov. 1856. 

 Coll. Caep. 354. Catete ; seeds 1 June 1857. Coll. Carp. 355. 



Huilla. — A little bushy tree, 10 to 15 ft. high, with rambling and 

 spreading branches. In descending from the highlands of Serra da 

 Xella to the plateau of Mumpulla, this is the first tree that strikes the 

 traveller as totally different from those of the highland region. In 

 leaf without fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4407. A little shrub, or rather an 

 undershrub ; stems erect, 1 to 2 J ft. high, springing from a thick many- 

 headed rootstock, leafy from the base up to tbe apex ; leaves rather 

 thick, subcoriaceous, rather rigid, quite entire, glossy-green above, ashy 

 with a very delicate tomentum beneath, obovate-oblong or elliptical ; 

 margin cartilaginous ; lateral veins parallel, pinnately arranged, alter- 

 nate. Flowers rather fleshy, crowded in pedunculate axillary or 

 terminal panicles, hermaphrodite ; calyx pentaphyllous, imbricate in 

 aestivation, with ovate-acuminate segments ; petals 5, alternating with 

 the calyx-segments, ovate-acuminate, bent inwards at the apex in the 

 bud, tomentellous outside ; stamens 5, alternating with the petals and 

 inserted with them, scarcely exceeding the pistil ; filaments from a 

 rather broad base gradually subulate, straight ; anthers hastate- 

 cordate, introrse, 2-celled, attached a little below the sinus ; disk 

 hemispherical ; ovary spherical-ovoid, fleshy, 1-celled ; ovule solitary, 

 inserted by the filiform f unicle adnate to the side of the ovary, appar- 

 ently ascending ; style thick deeply trifid (or rather styles 3, combined 

 at the base), divisions stigmatose at the oblique apex. On exposed 

 rocks near Mumpulla, not yet in fully-open fl., and in the bushy 

 rocky woods at the top of Serra da Xella not yet in fl. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 4408- A shrub (perhaps the young shoot of a burnt tree) ; root- 

 stock large, woody, many-headed ; stems numerous, erect, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, flowering at the apex ; flowers white, pentamerous, only male 

 ones seen, nor the rudiment of any ovary, unless very rarely ; disk 

 very prominent. In shrubby stations, at the skirts of the forest, near 

 Catumba, rather rare ; in early fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4409. 



The Quitundo is a tree of small height but with a very handsome and 

 elegant head, presenting its foliage as if silvered in dense satiny rolls. 

 It is met with in the district of Pungo Andongo and at the top of 

 the Serra da Xella in the district of Huilla ; and the natives assert 

 that the charcoal furnished by its wood is the most approved in the 

 manufacture of small ornaments of copper and of iron with which they 

 are accustomed to attire themselves. (See Welwitsch, Synopse, p. 16, 

 n. 40.) 



