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flowers very prettily purple-red ; calyx greenish-yellow ; corolla pale 

 sulphur-yellow ; filaments white half way up from the base, bright- 

 blood-red towards the apex. Sporadic in the roadway near Mussengue, 

 fl. Jan. 1855 ; in the forests by Zengas do Queta, fr. Nov. 1855 ; frequent 

 at the margins of primitive forests on the sides of the mountains of 

 Serra de Alto Queta, at Mariano Arimo, fl. 28 March 1856. No. 1762. 

 A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, with spreading branches ; two kinds of 

 indumentum on the petioles. In secondary woods between Cambondo 

 and Trombeta ; in leaf without fl. June 1855. No. 1764. A tree, 25 ft. 

 high ; leaflets glabrous and glaucescent beneath, about 9-jugate ; long- 

 stalked glands interposed amongst the soft short pilose hairs of the 

 common petiole. By the skirts of the primitive forests by the roadside 

 of Mussengue ; with young foliage and in fr. Dec. 1855. No. 17646. A 

 small tree, 10 ft. high ; trunk 2 in. in diam. In wooded places by the 

 stream Quiapoze near Sange ; in leaf without either fl. or fr. Feb. 1855. 

 No. 1765. 



Cazengo. — A small tree 12 ft. high in fl., and mostly 15 to 20 ft. 

 high in fr. In the forests at the banks of the river Luinha, June 1855. 

 No. 1763. 



The bark of this tree, which the negroes of Golungo Alto call 

 " Muzuembe " or " Musuemba," " Mozuemba " or " Mozemba," is 

 universally and with great success used for tanning leather. See 

 Welw. Synopse, p. 33, n. 81. 



5. A. angolensis Welw. ex Oliv., I.e., p. 360 ; Benth., I.e., p. 564 - 

 Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 178 (1884). 

 FeuiUeea angolensis, I.e., p. 187. 



Golungo Alto. — A vast tall tree, 30 to 40 ft. high, with the habit- 

 of the section Zygia ; trunk 1 to 2£ ft. diam., straight below, then 

 divided into long patent cymosely arranged branches in a fastigiate 

 manner ; leaflets hardly ever more than 13-jugate ; flowers very 

 crowded, from whitish to yellowish ; the central flower in the head 

 male and without the rudiment of an ovary, the remaining flowers 

 two or three times as large ; calyx greenish, with brownish teeth ; 

 corolla sulphur-yellow as are also the stamens which latter however 

 towards the apex are bright-green ; anthers very small. Very abund- 

 ant in the primitive forests of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, 

 Cungulungulo, Mussengue, etc. ; fl. from Dec. 1855 to March 1856 ; 

 Guengue de Queta, 21 March 1856. No. 1766. In mountainous 

 stations along the roadside which leads in the direction of Mussengue ; 

 the fr. probably of the above species, June 1856. No. 17666. A tree, 

 with the habit of an Acacia. Alt. 2300 ft. ; fr. Coll. Carp. 525. A 

 tree of 30 to 45 ft., with an ample crown ; bark brownish, rough, very 

 gummy. In the woods of Sobato de Bumba, in a narrow valley ; in 

 leaf without fl. and with fr. April 1855 (with old foliage in Sept. 1855). 

 No. 1767. 



Zenza do Golungo.— A tree of 35 to 40 ft., with patent branches- 

 and horizontally spreading branchlets. On wooded declivities near the 

 mountains of Mongolo and Muxao, in leaf and fl. (the flowering 

 specimens lost by Welwitsch) Sept. 1854. Apparently belonging to 

 the same species. No. 1768. 



Called by the natives "Mufufutu" or " Muf uf uto," a name which 

 they also apply to A. versicolor Welw. (No. 1760). Welwitsch in 

 Synopse, p. 9, nn. 10, 11, states that the wood of the tree is white on 

 the outside and variegated in the middle, and is well adapted for 

 joiners' work. 



