384 LXi. PASSiFLOEEiE. [Adenia 



basal sinus, erect, lanceolate-linear, subcordate at the base, with lateral 

 cells, that is, neither clearly introrse nor clearly extrorse : ovary none. 

 In shaded places, at the borders of the forests (Mata de Pungo) of the 

 fortress of Pungo Andongo, rare and very sporadic ; fl. Jan., and 

 sparingly fr. March and May 1857. No. 864. 



2. A. trisecta Engl., I.e., p. 375. 

 Modecca trisecta Ma.sters, I.e., p. 514. 



PuNc;o Andongo. — A perennial climbing herb, with a thick root- 

 stock and Cucurbitaceous habit ; male flowers yellow, nodding ; fruit 

 sub-globose, orange-coloured, glabrous, smooth, 1^ in. in diameter in 

 the dry state, like a small pumpkin. In sandy wooded places, between 

 Zamba and Cazella, on the left bank of the river Lutete, very sparingly : 

 male fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 863. 



3. A. lobata Engl., I.e., p. 375. 



M. lobata Jacq. Fragm. p. 82, t. 131 (1809) ; Masters, I.e., p. 516. 



Var.elegans (Masters, Z.c.,p.517; Ficalho,Pl.meis,p.l85 (1884)). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A staut shrub, climbing to a great height, not 

 uncommonly 40 ft. or higher ; adult stem 1 in. in diameter, trigonous, 

 angles tubercular-crested throughout, greenish-purple ; branches and 

 branchlets cylindrical. Male flowers greenish-yellow, when fully 

 expanded exactly campanulate, of a brighter yellowish colour within. 

 Petals rhomboid-spathulate, with a long claw and the margin of the 

 limb ciliate-fringed, alternating with the calyx-lobes, inserted on the 

 margin of the corona, and joining a broad membrane between each 

 petal and the anther-bearing disk, erect ; glands 5, large, lamelliform, 

 spreading, revolute in the bud ; stamens 5, with anthers subulate at 

 the apex, and there without pollen ; rudiment of the stigma fusiform. 

 At the edges of the primitive forests of Sobato de Bumba ; fl. Nov. 

 1855. No. 870. 



The following specimens in the carpological collection seem to 

 belong here : — 



Cazengo. — A climbing shrub ; fruit yellow, turning orange, acid- 

 sweetish, used for lemonade. In woods by the river Luinha, July 

 1866. Coll. Cai;p. 596. A stout shrub climbing to the height of 80 ft. 

 Fruit capsular, as big as a pigeon's egg, yellow outside, with an agree- 

 able acid pulp. Near the river Luinha, July 1857. Coll. Carp. 597. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Sange, March 1856. Coll. Carp. 595. A very 

 tall-climbing shrub, with edible fruit. Native name "Mobiro." JDoll. 

 Carp. 953. This connects the plant with Welw. Synopse Explic. p. 55. 

 n. 146 (Stems of Mobiro. — " Mobiro " or " Mobilo " or " Muvilo " is an 

 arborescent climber of the family of Passiflorete and of the genus 

 Adcjiia, which grows abundantly in the primitive forests of Cazengo, 

 Golungo Alto, and Dembos, and of which the ovoid yellow fruit of 

 the size of a pigeon's egg produces an excellent lemonade. A decoction 

 of the leaves or stems is known to the native doctors as one of the best 

 anthelmintic remedies, especially when mixed with the rind of the 

 root of Mubango, Croton Muhango Miill. Arg., Welw. Herb. No. 348). 

 It is also used in cases of nervous or rheumatic headaches, etc., and is 

 known in Golungo Alto by the name of " Cunnungando " (Pao cobra). 



Another form of the native name is Mubiro. The fi-uit is eaten, 

 and resembles that of a small Pasv/fiora ; in Cazengo a decoction of the 

 stems is used in cases of neuralgia of the head, just as in India a 

 species of the genus is employed for the same purpose. 



