Lefebwea] lxvii. umbellifer.^. 431 



2. L. angolensis Welw. ex Ficalho in Bol. 8oc. Geogr. Lisb,, Ser. 2, 

 p. 712 (6 April 1882) (Lefeburia); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 192 (1884). 



Alvardia (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 590, n. 92. Lefeburia Wel- 

 loitschii Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 322 (1892). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, 3 to 5, rarely 6, ft. high, varying from 

 annual to triennial, with the aroma of turpentine ; stem erect, cylindrical, 

 rather obtusely angular, filled with a white pith, spotted with purple 

 below, especially at the origin of the branches, branched from the 

 base ; lower branches erect-patent, very long (4 to 5 ft.), slender, 

 distant, the upper ones approximated ; leaves broad, semi-amplexicaul, 

 very variable in shape, sometimes pellucid-punctate ; bracts of the 

 involucels several, lanceolate, much acuminate, membranous on the 

 margin ; flowers from greenish to yellowish, polygamous ; calyx-teeth 

 scarcely conspicuous ; petals ovate-orbicular, broadly subcordate at the 

 base, sessile, apical acumen obtuse, inflexed or subemarginate ; stylopod 

 depresso-conical, with several small lobes on the deflexed margin, 

 inserted in the deep sinus between the prolonged wings of the fruit : 

 styles short, incurved, elongating, deflexed in fruit ; primary ridges on 

 the carpels 3 ; vittaj broad ; a secondary ridge on each side of the 

 primary ones undulated, vittate within. In the damp shady primitive 

 forests of Mata de Quisucula, especially along streams, near Bango 

 Aquitamba ; fl. and young fr. May ; fr. June 1856. Negro name 

 " Calusange cafele " (small calusange). In Mata de Alto Queta, 

 young fl. beginning of April 1866. No. 2522. An annual or biennial 

 herb, 2 to 4 ft. or more, with the habit and mode of growth of Carum 

 Petroselinum, very resinous ; flowers turning yellowish, small, rather 

 fleshy, not dioecious ; calyx-limb tumid on the margin, without teeth ; 

 petals ovate, concave, greenish, scarcely patent even during flowering, 

 mostly scarious at the apex. Young root tuberous. In shady places 

 in the primitive forests of Alto Queta and in deep hollows at Quibanga; 

 fl. and fr. April and May 1856. No. 2522^. An annual herb ; root 

 long, fusiform : stem 3 to 4 ft. high, erect, purplish ; leaves herbaceous- 

 green ; flowers apparently yellowish. In the primitive forest of 

 Quisucula, rather rare ; fr. 8 Sept. 1855. Coll. Carp. 627. Herba- 

 ceous. In primitive forests by streams ; fr. July 1857. Coll. Carp. 

 629. A herb, 3 to 5 ft. high, branched above ; leaves compound : 

 flowers yellowish. In the moist primitive forest of Quisucula near 

 streams, at Cungulungulo ; fr. July 1858. Negro name '' Calusange 

 ofele." Coll. Carp. 630. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A herb, 3 ft. high, apparently biennial or 

 perhaps perennial, with yellowish flowers. In ro9ky thickets at the 

 banks of streams near Catete ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 1857. No. 2523. 

 An erect, annual biennial or perennial herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the 

 habit of parsley ; stems purplish ; leaves decompound, ternato-partite : 

 ultimate segments of the radical leaves broad and oval, of the stem- 

 leaves narrower obcuneate, all acutely dentate ; flowers yellowish or 

 greenish-yellowish ; petals greenish-yellow, bordered with purple, not 

 appendaged, shorter tban the stamens. In damp secondary thickets 

 near the stream Tangue within the fortified lines of Pungo Andongo ; 

 fl. middle and end of (22, 29 and 30) Jan. 1857. No. 2623^. 



Coll. Carp. 94 consists of ripe fruits of a much branched annual 

 umbellifer, 4 to 6 ft. high with compound leaves ; they were grown in 

 Senhor Kneissman's garden in Huilla in May 1-860, and appear to 

 belong to this genus and either to this or the previous species. 



