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branches springing from near its base, dark-ashy rather strict 

 and straight and puberulous towards the extremities ; leaves 

 mostly ternate, oval, shortly acuminate to an obtuse or apiculate 

 apex, somewhat cordate at the base, minutely white-dotted and 

 glabrous on both faces except the puberulous clearly marked 

 venation, the principal veins of which are impressed on the upper 

 face, sub-glaucescent above, thinly coriaceous, very rigid, 3 to 6 in. 

 long by 1 1 to 3 wide ; petiole tawny-tomentellous or obsoletely 

 so, ^ to i in. long, thickened towards the base ; inflorescence 

 axillary, densely racemose, brown-tomentellous or densely 

 pubescent, about half as long as the leaves ; pedicels ranging 

 up to I in. long ; flowers white, pentamerous ; calyx densely 

 pubescent, almost tomentose, constricted above the ovary, the 

 free portion somewhat funnel-shaped, ^ in. long, glabrous inside 

 except dense brush-like hairs at the base, teeth deltoid, short ; 

 petals oblanceolate, shaggy, veiny, longer than the calyx-teeth, 

 YQ- in. long; stamens 10, unequal, exserted, glabrous, inserted on 

 the calyx-tube at difl:erent heights near its middle ; style glabrous, 

 exserted rather beyond the filaments. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In thickets along the margins of Panda forests, 

 near Luxillo, sparingly, only two specimens seen in fl. (and afterwards 

 in vain sought for in fr.), end of Oct. 1856. No. 4308. 



Nearly related to Muandongolo (C comtrictum Laws.). 



7. C. racemosum P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. p. 90 t. 118 (1818) ; 

 Guill. & Perr. Fl. Senegamb. p. 285, t. 67 (1833) ; Laws, in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 424. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A divaricately branched shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, 

 rambling, scarcely scandent ; leaves thick but soft, clothed beneath 

 with a whitish tomentum ; flowers purple. By secondary thickets 

 between Trombeta and Cambondo, rather rare ; fl. 19 Sept. 1854. 

 No. 4299. A slender sarmentose shrub, much branched from the base, 

 occasionally standing erect ; branches very long, sometimes deflexed, 

 sometimes scandent, or twisted and twining, aculeate ; prickles strong, 

 recurved, acuminate ; adult leaves brightly shining, green, the young 

 leaves whitish- yellow or yellowish-tomentose ; flowers atro-purpureous 

 or blood-red purple, subsessile ; bracteoles small, narrow, acute ; calyx 

 clothed with short shaggy -downy hairs, the tube obtusely 4-angled, the 

 limb funnel-shaped or elongate-campanulate, shaggy inside about the 

 insertion of the stamens, naked and with a purple gloss at the base 

 about the insertion of the style, mouth ciliate, 4-toothed, teeth from 

 a broad base abruptly long-acuminate, erect ; petals 4, obovate- or 

 ovate-lanceolate, erect, mostly rather acute but occasionally hooded at 

 the apex or folded or rather obtuse or quasi-spathulate, rather fleshy 

 and rigid, glabrous inside, densely shaggy outside, more or lessbearded- 

 ciliate on the margin, atro-purpureous or yellow-reddish, much longer 

 than the calyx-teeth ; stamens 8, very long, inserted in two rows, 

 exserted, straight, radiately arranged ; style glabrous, straight, central, 

 nearly as long as the filaments ; fruit smooth, 4-angled, green-reddish. 

 In the drier thin hilly thickets near Bango Aquitamba and Bumba ; 

 fl. and young fr. Sept., fl. and ripe fr. on the same branches Oct. 1855. 

 No. 4353. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A sarmentose shrub, 4 ft. high ; fruit rose- 



