Volume 1
Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.
- British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
- Date:
- 1896-1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Garcinia] 4. G. huillensis Welw. exOliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i. p. 167; Yesque in DC. Mon. Phan. viii. p. 353 (1893). Huilla.—A small glabrous dioecious tree, 7 to 10 ft. high, exuding from all parts a yellow resinous milk, oppositely branched, with a divaricately dilated crown ; leaves opposite, coriaceous, rather glossy, with elevated veins on both surfaces, 2 to 3 by f to If in. ; petiole very short, clothed at the back with a bright red (glandular?) membrane, articulated with the branch ; female flowers terminal and in the upper axils, subsessile, 1 to 4 together, herbaceous-green ; calyx sessile amidst decussating bracts ; uppermost bracts truncate, forming a minutely lobed or repand toriform epicalyx ; sepals 4 in 2 decussating pairs, concave, rounded, imbricate ; petals 4, rather larger than the sepals, sinistrorsely convolute (as seen from above), concave, rounded ; rudiments of stamens 0 or few, minute, hypogynous ; ovary superior, shortly ovoid, fleshy, vaguely and very obtusely 4-sided, 4-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; style very short, thick, 4-furrowed ; stigma peltate-hemi- spherical, much dilated, waxy, very viscid, with a small central depression above, shallowly 4-lobed. Sporadic, in the elevated woods of Morro de Lopollo, at an elevation of 5500 ft., ? fl. 17 May 1860. No. 1051. 5. Garcinia? (sp.). A glabrous scandent shrub, hard and rigid in all its parts, elegant, 5 to 8 ft. high; sap watery; branches terete; branchlets erect-patent, cylindrical, at the insertion of the leaves piano- compressed ; leaves oval-oblong, abruptly and obtusely acumi- nate, rather wedge-shaped at the base, undulate-entire, thickly coriaceous, pellucid-punctate with small round dots, deep green above, pale green beneath, glossy on iboth surfaces, evergreen, 6 to 7 by 2f to 3 in.; petiole f to f in. long; buds of the flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, subsessile, rose-coloured, caducous before fully open being destroyed by insects, thick, globular. Golungo Alto.—Sporadic in dense primitive woods of Mata de Mangue and Prato de Mangue, at the base of the mountains of Serra de Alta Queta, in flower-bud in April, Nov. and Dec. 1855, and without fl. in March. No. 1049. Apparently dioecious, with the female flowers solitary, and the male flowers a few together ; there are not good buds extant on the speci- mens separated for the British Museum. Tt should be compared with the Bitter Cola (G. sp.), Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 65, t. 160 (G. floribunda Yesque, l.c., p. 488). XXII. DIPTEROCARPEiE. 1. MONOTES Alph. DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. p. 623 (1868). 1. M. africanus Alph. DC., l.c., p. 624. Vatica africanci Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p 173 • Welw Sert. Angol. p. 15, t. 5. Yar. a. denudans ; V. africana, var. laxa Oliv., l.c. ; a. denudans Welw., l.c., p. 16, t. 5, fig. 1. V. africana, Huilla. Trunk If to 2 in. diam. Frequent in sandy bushy occa- sionally stony plaecs, near the base of the Morro de Lopollo, fl. from Dec. 185.) to Jan. 1860, fr. April and May I860. No. 1035.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
