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axillary and terminal, about | to 1 in. long (in fruit), pubescent ; 

 bracteole small, subulate, pubescent ; pedicels very short ; fruit 

 depresso-globose, shining, smooth, glabrous, tipped by the remains 

 of the 3 styles and based by the small pubescent calyx, | in. in diam. 



Golungo Alto. — In fruit. No. 4410. 



Pungo Andongo. — In fruit and flower-bud, November. No. 4411. 

 Nearly related, by its very short petioles and habit of growth, to 

 R. angolensis Engl. 



13. R. heptaphyllus Hiern, sp. n. 



A resinous-aromatic, copiously leafy tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, 

 much branched and forming a widely dilated head, glabrous or 

 nearly so throughout except the puberulous young parts and 

 inflorescence ; branches terete ; branchlets slightly and obtusely 

 angular, somewhat arching ; leaves impari-pinnate or oval-obovate, 

 3- or 2-jugate, 3 to 6 in. long ; internodes short ; common petiole 

 § to 1 in. long, not or scarcely winged • leaflets oblanceolate- 

 obovate, rounded emarginate or scarcely mucronate at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, narrowly revolute along the margin, 

 entire, rigidly chartaceous, dark green above, pale and rather 

 ruddy-green with impressed but not conspicuous venation (except 

 the midrib) beneath, sessile ; the terminal leaflet lg to 3 in. long 

 by | to 1 in. broad, oblanceolate-obovate ; the lateral leaflets 1 to 

 1\ in. long by \ to § in. broad, oval-obovate ; the axis of the leaf 

 between the insertions of the leaflets narrowly winged, the wings 

 narrowing downwards and becoming obsolete in the lower parts 

 of these intervals ; inflorescence consisting of pyramidal panicles 

 inserted in the upper axils about 2 to 2| in. long, and forming 

 compound leafy quasi-terminal panicles about 5 in. long ; ultimate 

 pedicels very short, puberulous ; bracteoles small, ovate, acute. 

 Male flowers small, about ^ in. long, white or turning yellowish, 

 fragrant, subglabrous, abundantly visited by coleopterous insects 

 of the genera Lycus and Cetonia ; calyx deeply and equally 5-lobed, 

 lobes ovate ; petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, alternating with and twice 

 as long as the calyx-lobes, imbricate in aestivation, scarcely 

 squamulate at the base, inserted without a claw below the 

 depressed-cup-shaped deeply 10-crenate waxy-yellow disk; stamens 

 8 to 10, with unequal flattened linear-lanceolate acuminate naked 

 filaments, inserted with the petals ; ovary abortive, small and 

 globose or wanting ; style 1, obscurely 3-lobed at the apex. 

 Female flowers and fruit not seen. 



Loanda. — In ,dry sandy maritime situations, rather rare ; fl. April 

 and May 1854. Possibly an introduced tree. At Ponta d'Isabella, 

 near the city of Loanda, with male fl. 13 May 1858. No. 4531. 



XLIII. CONKARACE^E. 



The Connaraceaa, consisting for the greater part of shrubs or 

 woody climbers of the genera Rowrea and Cnestis, form a great 

 feature in the primitive forests of the hilly and highland regions, 

 by reason of their remarkable fruits, nearly always covered with 



