Parinari] xlv. rosacea. 321 



magnificent habit, and the small almond-like fruits, which contain the 

 stones, are eatable and even very relishing ; it does not appear to be 

 unwholesome, since both the natives and the white colonists consume 

 at the proper season enormous quantities of the Nochas without the 

 least disturbance to their health. (See Welwitsch, l.c, p. 52, n. 140.) 



3. P. capensis Harv. in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 597 (1862) 

 (Parinarium, capense) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 368 ; Ficalho, I.e., 

 p. 179. 



Ferolia capensis 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 216 (1891). 



Huilla. — A dwarf shrub, 2 to 4 in. high, rarely 5 to 12 in. high, 

 densely and widely caespitose, covering extensive tracts of shortly- 

 bushy pasture-lands which are annually burnt ; leaves narrow ; flowers 

 white ; fruits rare, less commonly eaten than the other species, not 

 altogether unpleasant. Frequent in sandy thickets between Mumpulla 

 and Humpata ; fl. Oct. 1859. Possibly a diminutive form, or a fresh 

 growth from a destroyed trunk of P. Mobola Oliv. No. 1283. 



Var. latifolia (Oliv., I.e., p. 369). 



Cazengo. — A shrub, 1 to 2J ft. high ; stems densely caespitose, after 

 the fashion of the Portuguese Quercus humilis Lam. ; flowers white. 

 Abundant on the dry hills on the left bank of the river Caringa near 

 Dalatanda ; in early fl. and young fr. June 1855. Native name " Gibia " 

 or rather " Guihia." No. 1286. Cazengo, very rarely in Golungo Alto ; 

 fr. Coll. Cabp. 540. 



Ambaca. — A dwarf shrub, 1 to 1 \ ft. high, growing in a caespitose 

 manner, occupying in dense crowds extensive dry hilly tracts, very 

 rigid ; flowers pentamerous ; fruit drupaceous, of the size and shape of 

 a pigeon's egg, eaten by the natives. Frequent, on bushy schist-sandy 

 hills between Cabinda and Izanga ; fl. and young f r. Oct. 1856. No. 1285. 



Except that it is a dwarf shrub instead of a tree, it is difficult to 

 distinguish the variety from P. curatellafolia (Parinarium curatellce- 

 folium Planch, in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 333). 



3. ACIOA Aublet, Hist. PI. Guian. ii. p. 698, t. 280 (1775). 

 Dactyladenia Welw. Apont. p. 572 under n. 173. Griffonia Hook, 

 f . in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 608 ; non Baill. 



1. A. Bellayana Baill. in Adansonia, vii. p. 224 in note (1867). 



Dactyladenia floribunda Welw. Apont. p. 572. Griffonia Bellay- 

 ana Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 371. 



Golungo Alto.— A beautiful tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, rarely higher, 

 or in secondary woods a little tree of 12 to 15 ft. ; trunk at the base 

 1 to 1 J ft. in diam., straight ; branches patent, slender ; branchlets rather 

 nodding, shortly ferruginous-hirsute-tomentose ; bark somewhat warty ; 

 crown ovoid-dilated, rather lax ; leaves thinly coriaceous, but little 

 shining, evergreen or rather at the time of the inflorescence caducous 

 but at the same time with fresh leaves arising at the extremities of the 

 branchlets ; corymbs of flowers in the axils of the leaves on horizontal 

 branchlets, erect, centripetal in flowering ; calyx long-tubular, green ; 

 tube gradually attenuated downwards, gibbous at the base on one side, 

 turbinate, articulated with the pedicel and there enveloped by 2 opposite 

 palmatipartite bracteoles ; all the segments of the involucre terminated 

 at the apex by oblong turgid reddish-brown glands ; calyx-limb 

 5-partite ; petals 5, milk-white, inserted on the throat of the calyx, 

 often unequal among themselves, very shortly clawed, concave, imbri- 

 cate in aestivation, caducous ; stamens perfectly unilateral, in the bud 



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