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pedicels and calyx shortly tomentose. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 
subacute or obtuse, } in. long. Corolla 1 in. long, densely tomentose, 
rather rigid, bright brick-red ; lobes } in. long, ovate-subulate. Berry 
about 4 in. diameter.—DC. Prodr. iv. p. 468; Welw. Apont. p. 588, 
n. 54 (1859). 
Lower Guinea. Angola, ‘este Desfontaines; Rocky thickets from Ambaca to 
Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch ! 
2. A. fulgidus, Welw. mss. A shrub of 3-5 feet, rather densely 
virgate-ramose. Branches rigid, stout, densely clothed with red tomen- 
tum, spreading ; branchlets with paler almost velvety hairs. Leaves very 
rigidly coriaceous, 1-2 by 3-13 in., broadly ovate-cordiform, obtuse, 
Margins recurved and waved, upper surface dark green subscabridly 
pubescent with sunken veins, under surface greenish white velvety 
tomentose with broad stout reddishly tomentose, midrib and many 
stout reticulate veins; petiole very short; stipules subulate from a 
broad base, din. long. Flowers as in A. rubiginosus, but calyx-lobes 
rather more obtuse, } in. long, and corolla rather shorter and more 
densely tomentose and of a brighter more orange red, lobes ovate, 
apiculate. Berry about 2-3 in. diameter; seeds 4 in. long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Huilla district, in the thickets and rocky woods, alt. 
4000-5000 feet, from Mumpulla to Lopollo, Welwitsch ! 
_ 3. A. cinerascens, Welw. mss. An erect shrub about 4 feet 
high, pale tawny-tomentose when young ; branches erect-patent, supra- 
axillary, rather slender, rigid, densely clothed with short soft tomen- 
m. Leaves 24-31 by 3-12 in. elliptical or oblong, obtuse or subacute 
at the apex, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, rather 
Scabridly hairy above, pale tawny or grey-white, softly or villous- 
silky beneath ; petiole very short. Flowers in dense fascicles at the 
lower nodes of the branches, shortly pedicellate. Calyx }-} in. long, 
densely silky tomentose, lobes subulate-lanceolate. Berry yellowish 
red, as in A. rubiqginosus, nearly 4 in. long. 
A Lower Guinea. Angola, in rather dense woods of Mutollo in the Pungo 
ndongo district, alt. 3500 feet, Welwitsch! 
4. A. cistifolius, Welw. mss. A shrub 14-3 feet, sparingly 
branched, Branches rigid, stout, black-hoary, naked below ; branch- 
ets tawny-tomentose. Leaves rigidly coriaceous, 3-5 by $-? in. 
narrowly linear or oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, subobtuse at 
the base, above with scattered curly short hairs and rufous villous 
midrib, buff-coloured and woolly beneath with villous stout midrib 
and obscure lateral nerves, margins revolute; petiole 4} i. ; stipules 
Anceolate-subulate, equalling or exceeding the petiole. Flowers in 
ense axillary subglobose fascicles; peduncles pedicels and calyx 
shaggy with tawny hairs. Calyx-lobes subulate-lanceolate, subacute, 
wk as the tube, about } in. long, persistent. Berry of the genus 
( elw.), 3 in. long ; pyrenes about 4. 
de aver Guinea. Angola. Sporadic in Mimosa woods in the Serra de Pedras 
Unga, alt. 3500 feet, Welwitsch / 
