Berlinia] xliv. leguminos.k. 299 



" Mutone " (No. 567) or of the large-leaved " Panda " (Nos. 568, 569). 

 In open woods near Luxillo and Cazella ; without fl. Dec. 1856. Also 

 near Quitage, not far from salt springs ; a shrub 5 to 6 ft. high always 

 barren, March 1857. No. 570. Of. Coll. Carp. 491. 



71. VOUAPA Aubl. Hist. PI. Guian. p. 25, tt. 7, 8 (1775). 

 Macrolobium Schreb (1789) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 579. 



1. V. macrophylla Baill. in Adansonia, vi. p. 178, t. 3, f. 6 (1865). 



Macrolobium Palisoti Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 308 

 (1865) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 297. 



Golungo Alto. — A tree of moderate size, with a straight trunk, in 

 the primitive forests 30 to 40 ft. high with the trunk '2 to 3 ft. in diam. 

 at its base ; bark whitish or coriaceous ; leaves deep glossy-green above, 

 silvery-shining beneath, sub-coriaceous ; calyx bi-bracteolate, tube short 

 and ventricose, limb bilabiate and 4-cleft, the three anterior lobes equal, 

 the posterior one broader and more or less bifid, all green and rather 

 fleshy ; petals 5, inserted on the throat of the calyx, all white or 

 greenish-white or soon turning yellowish-cinnamon or four green and 

 the longest one cinnamon-tawny, the four anterior ones equal very 

 small 3 or 4 times shorter than the calyx-lobes, the fifth one posterior 

 large longer than the calyx-lobes obcordate-spathulate with a channelled 

 claw, limbs deeply cordate -excised with connivent lobes ; stamens 9, 

 inserted in two series, 5 exterior and 4 interior, the 5 exterior ones 

 larger and alternating with the petals, usually 3 of them (rarely only 

 1 or 2 very rarely 4) fertile and the other 2 posterior smaller and 

 inserted on each side of the large petal, the 4 interior ones rudimentary 

 (sometimes reduced to 3 or 2) opposite the minute petals ; ovary ovate- 

 lanceolate, densely hairy shortly stipitate, 1-celled ; ovules 4 or 5, 

 ellipsoidal, pendulous ; style filiform elongate, curved above the middle ; 

 stigma narrowly capitate ; pods dehiscent. 



Golungo Alto. — In primitive forests in Sobato de Bumba near the 

 cataract of Capopa, sporadic ; end of August 1855. In Serra de Alto 

 Queta at Zenzas de Queta and Quibolo, in mountainous primitive 

 forests ; fl. Dec. 1855 and May 1856, fr. August 1856. No. 560. 



Pungo Andongo. — Mata de Pungo ; f r. Jan. 1857. Coll. Carp. 535. 



Welwitsch in Sert. Angol. p. 22 refers to forests comprised for the 

 ohief part of species of Macrolobium, and another genus and situate in 

 the district of Pungo Andongo ; this species is doubtless intended. 



72. INTSIA P. Thouars, Nov. Gen. Madag. n. 75 in Roemer, 

 Collect. Bot. p. 212 (1809). Afzelia Sm. (1798) ; Benth. & Hook. 

 Gen. PI. i. p. 580; non Gmel. (1791). 



1. I. africana O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 192 (1891). 

 Afzelia africana Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 221 (1798) ; 



Oliv., l.c, p. 302. 



Golungo Alto. — A tree, 20 ft. high, with a dilated densely frondose 

 crown, and habit of the genus. In secondary woods by the road leading 

 from Sange towards Sobato de Bumba ; leafy branches without either 

 fl. or fr. Feb. 1856. This is doubtfully referred here ; the leaflets much 

 resemble those of No. 1738 which has been doubtfully referred to 

 Cassia Sieberiana DC, but they are less numerous (in 5 pairs). No. 592. 



2. I. ouanzensis O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 192 (1891). 

 Afzelia quanzensis Welw. Apont. p. 586, n. 35 (1859); Oliv., 



I.e., p. 302 (cuanzemis). 



