-598 xliv. leguminos^e. [Berlinia 



70. BERLINIA Solander; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 579. 



1. B. paniculata Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 311 (1865) ; 

 Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxvii. t. 22 (ramulus, Jig. 10, 

 not Jig. 1) (1869) ; Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. p. 295 ; Ficalho, PL Uteis, 

 p. 155 (1884). 



Hdilla.— A tree, 10 to 25 ft. high, with a broad crown, frequently 

 flowering in the young state when only 5 to 6 ft. high ; forming forests 

 mixed with other species of the same or allied genera ; stamens 

 diadelphous, one connate at the base only ; March 1860. No. 581. A 

 moderate-sized tree, 13 to 30 ft. high, with spreading branches ; flowers 

 whitish-yellow. Frequent and constituting little woods, between 

 Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 582. A tree 15 to 

 25 ft. high, the matrix of the male flowers of Pilostyles cetJiiopica Welw. 

 Herb. No. 529 ; in the mountainous woods between Lopollo and 

 Monino, at an elevation of about 5500 ft. above the sea-level ; without 

 fl. or fr. 10 May 1860. One of the trees called " Panda." No. 577. 



Var. glabrior Oliv., I.e. 



Pungo Andongo. — A moderate-sized tree with a lax crown ; flowers 

 white. The trunk when cut through shows a resinous ring about the 

 centre not next the interior of the bark. Forms forests together 

 with the trees called "Homoe," "Panda," "Mututu," "Muzamba," 

 and " N-punda." All these trees supply excellent building-timber and 

 firewood, but are frequently found mutilated by conflagrations in 

 the forests and so appear only as shrubs of 6 to 8 ft. in height which 

 flower not very rarely but scarcely ever perfect their fruit. In woods 

 around the fortress of Pungo Andongo up to the banks of the river 

 Cuanza ; fl. and young fr. 1 May 1857. Native name " Mutoe." 

 No. 567. A form with obtuse leaflets, in company with the above 

 near Sansamanda ; fl. May 1857 (no specimen separated for the British 

 Museum). No. 5676. 



Var. ? ferruginea Benth., I.e. ; Oliv., I.e. 



Hdilla. — A tree, 10 to 20 ft. high, with dilated crown. Rather rare, 

 in but little dense stony woods near Mumpulla, in the plain of Huilla ; 

 fr. Oct. 1859. No. 576, and Coll. Caep. 455. 



2. B. angolensis Welw. ex Benth., I.e., p. 310 (1865) ; Oliv., I.e., 

 p. 296 ; Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 155. 



Pungo Andongo. — A tree, about 25 ft. high, with a lax crown ; 

 habit that of " Panda " but with two or three times larger leaves and 

 less lofty and also with the pod two or three times greater. In the 

 but little dense primitive forests of " Mata de Mangue," between the 

 town of Pungo Andongo and Candumba, very sporadic ; fl. Jan. 1857. 

 Native name " Homoe." No. 568. 



Var. subcordata (Welw.), Oliv., I.e. 



Pungo Andongo.— A tree, 25 to 30 ft. high, with lax branches ; fruit 

 nearly 9 in. long, obliquely and densely wrinkled. In forests near the 

 river Cuanza ; fr. 1 May 1857. In mixed forests along the banks of 

 the river Cuanza between the fortress and Candumba ; fl. Jan. 1857. 

 Native name " Homoe." No. 569. 



The following No. perhaps belongs to this species, but should 

 be compared with No. 575 mentioned under Brachystegia spicas- 

 formis Benth. : — 



Pungo Andongo.— A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, with the habit of 



