454 Lxix. RUBiACEiE. [Mttsscenda 



GoLU.Nfjo Alto.— A graceful shrub, climbing to a great height ; by 

 far the most beautiful of African shrubs : upper part of the stem 

 clothed with spreading hairs ; leaves rather obtuse or even in some 

 cases subcordate and occasionally attenuate at the base, very bright 

 green on the upper face, pale glaucous-green and hispidulous-hirsute 

 on the purple nerves beneath ; stipules ovate, acuminate ; calyx beset 

 throughout with rather rigid substantial hairs rather dense on the 

 nerves of the lobes and elsewhere comparatively distant, one lol^e 

 developed into a very large bright scarlet-blood-red lamina ; outer face 

 of the corolla similarly beset with rather rigid substantial hairs 

 corolla-limb coloured pallid-orange inside ; the throat quite closed 

 with whitish-sulphur-coloured, long, rigid, very dense, exserted hairs 

 ripe fruit baccate, oblong, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes 

 seeds very numerous, minute, lenticular, black, flattened, scrobiculate 

 scabrid, embedded in pulp. In moist wooded places in Sobato de 

 Bumba ; fl. 12 Dec. 1854 ; also in primitive forests and in neighbour- 

 ing thickets in Sobato de Quilombo-Quiacatubia, and about Bango 

 Aquitamba, abundant ; fl. and fr. Jan. to May 1855. From 2000 to 

 3000 ft. alt. Negro name " Dilula," " Dilula-Riula," or "Diluia," or 

 " Alleluia." No. 1116. Mata de Quisucula ; fr. July 1856 and 1855, 

 Coll. Cakp. 141. Calyx-lobes very large, brilliantly scarlet ; corolla 

 of a deep sulphur colour. In the forest of Sobato Quilombo, Queta, 

 Mussengue, and Bango ; fr. June 1855. Coll. Carp. 638 and 630. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A climbing shrub of 5 to 6 ft. ; enlarged calyx- 

 lobe purple. In rocky thickets at the borders of the primitive forest 

 of Mata de Pungo within the praesidium, rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1857. 

 No. 1115. 



The flowering branches of this beautiful climber were used by the 

 missionaries at Bango Aquitamba to ornament the church of the 

 mission at Easter. The inflorescence much resembles that of Euphorbia 

 jndcherrima in brilliancy and floral effect ; and it sometimes almost 

 completely covers low trees with its glowing garlands. 



5. M. elegans, Schum. & Thonn., I.e., p. 137; Hiern, ^.c. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A sarmentose climbing shrub, with membranous 

 leaves, deep-cinnabar-red flowers, and deciduous calyx-limb. In the 

 thickets of primitive forests among the mountains of Alto Queta, 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. March and April 1856. No. 1119. A scandent 

 shrub, with bright-green leaves paler beneath and with deep-scarlet 

 flowers ; at Capopa, fl. Feb., fr. March 1856. Coll. Carp. 637. 



13. SABICEA Aubl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 72. 



1. S. venosa Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 399 ; Hiern in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 77. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A twining shrub ; stem slender, 6 to 9 ft. long, 

 furrowed, angular, turning blackish-red ; leaves herbaceous, rather 

 rigid, opaque-green above, becoming whitish beneath, with the reddish 

 nerves covered with white rigid hairs adpressed in lines ; calyx-tube 

 produced above the ovary, including the tubular truncate obtusely 

 pentagonal disk; calyx-lobes foliaceous, green, long-ciliate on the 

 margin ; corolla whitish outside, the tube bright red, sparingly pilose 

 inside, more densely pilose at the throat ; segments of the limb 

 bearded with long white hairs ; ovary 4- or rarely 5-celled, adnate to 

 the lower part of the calyx ; style included in the corolla-tube ; 

 stigma deeply divided into rather flat lobes. In thickets and reed- 

 beds along the base of the mountains of Queta ; fl. 8 Oct. 1855. 



