792 xcii. B1GN0NIACE.E. [Markhctniia 



capsule about a foot long, but little exceeding }■ in. in breadth, curved 

 in a falcate manner, nearly smooth ; seeds as in Spathodea. In the 

 deep valleys among the gigantic rocks of the praesidium, in the forest 

 of Mata de Cabondo and near Luxillo, not uncommon ; fl. and young 

 fr. Dec. 1856 and Jan. 1856. No. 483. 



1. M. tomentosa K. Schum., I.e., p. 242. 



Spathodea tomentosa Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 462 (1849). 

 Muenteria tomentosa Seem., I.e., p. 330, t. 35. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree, 8 to 10 ft. high, or oftener only a 

 shrub of 5 to 6 ft., always sparingly branched and strictly erect ; 

 capsule 2 to 2i ft. long. In bushy places at the outskirts of the 

 primitive forests of which it is a remarkable ornament, sporadic ; near 

 Sange at the base of Serra de Alto Queta; fl. Feb. fr. June 1855. 

 No. 485. A tree, in primitive forests 30 ft. high or in secondary 

 thickets only 6 to 8 ft. ; branches rambling, lax ; flowers yellow-orange, 

 very handsome. In the forests and thickets, frequent throughout the 

 mountainous parts of the district ; in the elevated primitive forests 

 among the mountains of Cungulungnlo ; fl. and ripe fr. Nov. 1855. 

 No. 485/a a small tree ; leaves pinnate ; flowers densely spicate, large, 

 saffron-yellow ; capsules 2 to 3 ft. long, outside cinnamon-tomentose. 

 At Sange ; fr. July 1857. Coll. Carp. 815. 



Some fragments of the fruit of M. denocarpa are intermixed with 

 the fruit of this species in Coll. Carp. 815 ; the description attached 

 appears to belong exclusively to this species. 



" Moluanda " is the native name of a tree, belonging to SjKithodea or an 

 allied genus ; it has sulphur-coloured flowers and capsules a yard long ; 

 the wood is strong and is generally used by the Golungo Alto negroes 

 for the helves of pruoing-hooks ; perhaps it belongs to this species. 



5. FERDINANDIA Welw. ex Seem. Journ. Bot. 1865, p. 330, 

 t. 37-38 ; non Ferdinanda Lagasca (1816) ; nee Ferdinandea Pohl 

 <1827). 



Fernandoa Welw. ex Seem., I.e., 1866, p. 123. Ferdinandoa 

 Seem., I.e., 1870 p. 280. Ferdinanda Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. 

 f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1047 (1876). Heterophragma Benth. & Hook. 

 1, l.e, p. 1046, partly; non DC Fernandia^2iA\. Hist. PI. x. 

 p. 47 (1888); K. Schum. in Engl. NTat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 36, 

 p. 243 (1894). 



\. F. superba Welw. ex Seem., I.e., iii. p. 330, t. 38 (1865). 



Biynonia Ferdinandi Welw. Apontam. p. 584, n. 10 (1859). 

 Ferdinandoa superba Sesm., I.e., 1870, p. 280. FernandAa superha 

 Baill., I.e., p. 48. Heterophragma Ferdinandi Britten, Journ. 

 Bot. 1895 p. 75. Fernandia Fernanda K. Schum. in Engl. Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 36., p. 243, flg. 92, g. (1895). 



Golungo Alto. — An extensive tree, 25 to 40 ft. high, almost leafless 

 at the time of flowering, a very beautiful ornament of the Angolan 

 flora, patently branched a little above the base ; head densely leafy, 

 broad, depressedly ovoid ; all the branches, even the lower thicker ones, 

 and the shoots of the year covered Avith flowers ; leaves opposite, 

 imparipinnate, 3- or 4-jugate, appearing immediately after the flower- 

 ing ; flowers handsome, very large, fasciculate, orange-cinnabar in 

 colour, striate with blood-red lines ; calyx globose-campanulate, in- 

 flated, bursting into '.) or 4 unequal teeth with aloud crackling, shortly 



