Rhios] xlii. anacardiacejE. 183 



Pungo Andongo. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, with the habit of a 

 Rhus, much branched from the base ; branches elongate-virgate, 

 densely leafy ; leaves subcoriaceous, rather rigid, deep-green, rather 

 glossy, trifoliolate ; flowers greenish-yellow ; fruit drupaceous. In 

 thin forests composed of " Panda '' (Berlinia paniculata Benth., etc.), 

 between Mutollo and Candumba ; fl. and young fr. March 1857. 

 No. 4417. 



7. R. angolensis Engler in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iv. p. 448 

 (1883). 



Toxicodendron angolense 0. Kuntze Revis. Gen. PL i.p. 153(1891). 



Huilla. — A little shrub, 1 to 3 ft. high ; stems crowded, csespitose, 

 erect or ascending ; leaves trifoliolate, with narrowly lanceolate 

 leaflets ; flowers greenish, apparently dioecious; calyx 5-partite ; 

 petals 5 ; stamens 5, alternating with the petals ; anthers 2-celled, 

 bright-yellow ; disk large, covering the bottom of the calyx, toothed 

 at the margin, apiculate in the centre ; rudiment of the style scarcely 

 any. In rather dry wooded stations, at Catumba, Lopollo, where, in 

 March 1860, was the camp of the Monanos ; fl. 1 1 April 1860. No. 4429. 



The following No., with rather oblanoeolate leaflets and small 

 drupaceous fruit about £ in. long (in the dry shrivelled state), 

 apparently belongs to this species : — 



Huilla. — At Catumba, at the border of the forest ; fr. May 1860. 

 No. 4430. 



8. R. mucronatus Thunb. in Hoffm. Phytogr. Blatter, i. p. 27 

 (1803) (mucronaturn) ; Sonder in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 513 

 (I860), Engler in DC. Monogr. in Phanerog. iv. p. 432 (1883) 

 (mucronata) ; vel affinis. 



Pdngo Andongo. — A shrub, 1£ ft. high, with coriaceous leaflets, and 

 greenish-white flowers (not fully developed) ; perhaps a young shoot 

 from the stock of a tree or bush. In bushy situations, near Condo ; a 

 unique specimen, in young fl. March 1857. No. 4414. 



It differs from the type by less cuneiform and rather longer leaflets ; 

 perhaps it is but a glabrous and larger-leaved variety of R. pyroides 

 Burch. 



9. E. pyroi'des Burch. Trav. Int. South. Afr. i. p. 340 (1822) ; 

 Sonder in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 511 (1860) ; Engler in DC. 

 Monogr. Phanerog. iv. p. 430 (1883); vel afiinis. 



Huilla.— At Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. No. 4420. 



Benguella. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, much branched ; with tri- 

 foliolate softly coriaceous leaves, and pale greenish-yellow flowers. In 

 bushy sandy situations, near the city of Benguella ; fl. and young fr. 

 end of June 1859. No. 4422. 



According to Welwitsch's note he found the same species (as that of 

 No. 4422) also near Mossamedes in the month of July ; perhaps he 

 alluded to No. 4423, herein mentioned under R. glutinosus. 



Welwitsch's specimens differ from Burchell's type in the branchlets 

 being never spinous and the leaves not quite glabrous. 



10. R. glutinosus Hochst. ! in Herb. Schimp. St. Abyss, ii. 

 n.< 851 (U. i. 1842), A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 144 (1847) 

 (ghbtinomum) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 438, Engler in DC. Monogr. 

 Phanerog, iv. p. 431 (1883) (glutinosa) ; vel affinis. 



