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tallest trees, and there with its innumerable flowers decking the tops 

 with a scarlet cloak. In the elevated forests of Cungulungulo in 

 Sobato Calanga, etc., flowering throughout the year ; fl. July 1855. 

 No. 4360- Leaves coriaceous and glossy, not opaque nor herbaceous ; 

 flowers carmine. On the way to Ambaca from Ponte de Luiz Simoes, 

 fl. June 1856 ; between Sange and Ponte de Luiz Simoes, fl. end of 

 July. No. 4361. A tall-climbing shrub, with bright-scarlet flowers. 

 By thickets between Sange and Ponte de Luiz Simoes ; fl. end of 

 July 1855. No. 4362. A shrub climbing to a great height, spiny in 

 old age ; flowers of a fiery-red colour, octandrous ; leaves coriaceous, 

 very glossy. Abundant in primitive forests, and standing erect in 

 secondary thickets near Sange ; Quibolo, fl. July 1856 ; Delamboa, 

 fl. August 1856. No. 4366. A stout shrub, climbing high, with scarlet 

 flowers. In thickets between Bango and Sange ; fr. May 1856. 

 No. 4367. 



Cazengo. — A climbing arborescent shrub. Mata de Cabondo ; fl. 

 June 1855. No. 4363. 



Zenza do Golungo. — Leaves coriaceous, very shining, ovate- 

 elliptical or occasionally nearly round-ovate ; flowers scarlet. In 

 thickets from Quicanda to Tanderaxique ; fl. Sept. 1854. No. 4364. 

 A shrub climbing high and widely, nearly leafless at the time of 

 flowering, the lowest branches furnished with flower- buds and leaves 

 almost all destroyed by insects, the branches in the middle of the 

 climbing stem in full flower, while of the lateral branchlets some already 

 bear fruits and others have foliage only, all on the same individual 

 plant at the same time ; leaves varying in consistency to an extra- 

 ordinary degree ; flowers bright-scarlet ; stamens 8 ; fruits remarkable 

 for their silvery-golden lustre. On bushy slopes of the Montes de 

 Mongolo ; fl. and unripe fr. Sept. 1854. No. 4358. 



The following No. is perhaps a form of this species : — 

 Golungo Alto. — A very glossy-green, prickly shrub, extensively 

 climbing by tall thickets ; without fl. or fr. Nov. 1855. — Zenza do 

 Golungo. — Flowers scarlet ; Bango road, May 1856. No. 4368. 



10. C. virgatum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. p. 425. 

 Pungo Andongo. — A virgate-sarmentose shrub, 5 to 7 feet high, 



clothed on most parts with whitish silky-shaggy hairs ; stems numerous, 

 erect-spreading, sparingly branched ; leaves silky-tomentose, even the 

 adult ones velvety-tomentose beneath, but the tomentum cottony or 

 more cottony than on the young leaves which are densely tomentose 

 and remarkable for a coppery-tawny gloss ; flowers often on leafless 

 branches, brilliant vermilion, the most brilliant of all species seen 

 by Welwitsch in tropical Africa, very densely clustered, tetramerous ; 

 calyx-limb campanulate, teeth deltoid abruptly acuminate bearded 

 at the apex with bundles of rather rigid hairs erect ; petals scarlet, 

 broad, suborbicular, very obtuse, scarcely clawed, but little or scarcely 

 longer than the calyx-teeth ; stamens 8, tolerably robust, moderately 

 exserted, scarlet ; style straight, shorter than the stamens ; bracteoles 

 narrow, acute, equalling or a little longer than the ovary, caducous. 

 In thickets at the banks of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. April 1857. 

 No. 4357. 



11. C. virgultosum Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A shrub, 5 to 8 feet high ; stems numerous, long, virgate- 

 sarmentose, erect, subterete, softly whitish-silky (turning reddish- 

 brown in drying) when young, obsoletely so afterwards ; leaves 



