20 IV. MENISPERMACE.E. [Stephcmia 



peltate apex ; anthers 6, edging the peltate apex, transversely oblong, 

 simulating a 6-lobed stigma, transversely dehiscing, almost quite con- 

 tiguous or confluent. Sporadic in damp primitive woods at the banks 

 of the river Delamboa and of the stream of Capopa ; in male flower 

 at the beginning of Dec. 1855. No. 2323. At the borders of primitive 

 woods about the base and in the elevated valleys of Cungulungulo ; not 

 yet in flower Feb. 1855. No. 2323h. 



Cazengo. — A shrub with far and widely climbing, elongated, very 

 tenacious, slender, flexuous stem, decking the neighbouring branches 

 of trees with a dense crown ; leaves large, peltate, of a pretty green 

 colour ; flowers yellow-greenish, bursting from the stem before the 

 appearance of the leaves, very caducous ; petioles with a rather fragile 

 attachment at their insertion. Sporadic in the very dense primitive 

 woods of Serra de Muxaula, by streams ; a young plant in leaf without 

 flowers, and plants in flower but without leaves, Jan. 1855. No. 2325. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tall and widely climbing shrub, attaining 30 ft. 

 in length ; stems rope-like, and on that account frequently employed 

 for cords, at least for a certain height, at the time of the flowering 

 when the leaves are absent. Rather rare in the primitive woods of 

 the fortress in the Mata do Pungo; in flower without leaves Jan. 1857. 

 No. 2324. 



From the want of female flowers and fruit, the determination of the 

 genus is uncertain. 



3. S. (?) cyanantlia VVelw. ms. in Herb. 



A slender, rather flexuous, bright green, glabrous shrub, para- 

 sitical on Adansonia digitata L., monoecious (?), branched from the 

 base ; branches rope-like, pendulous, 3 to 6 ft. long, with distant 

 branchlets. At the base of the branches and also of the peduncles 

 are thick cartilaginous orange-coloured semi-orbicular scales* 

 Leaves deltoid-orbicular, or rarely reniform, usually pointed to- 

 wards the apex, rounded below, peltate, glossy, glaucous beneath, 

 chartaceous (in the dry state), entire repand or obsoletely angular, 

 2 to 3 by 1 1 to 2| in. ; petiole slender, 1| to 2 in., inserted in 

 the lamina about 5 to ^ part about the base of the latter. Male 

 flowers numerous, small, deep-blue, arranged in small crowded 

 hemispherical pseudo-umbellate lateral cymes of | in. diam. on 

 the leafless branches ; common peduncle abbreviated ; sepals 6, 

 imbricate, broadly rounded; petals 3 or 5, shorter than the sepals, 

 truncate, sometimes placed so near together as to form nearly a 

 shallow cup, sometimes occurring only on one side of the flower ; 

 anthers 6 to 9, transversely dehiscing, sub-confluent, inserted in 

 a peltate manner on a very short column. Ovary 0. Fruiting 

 cymes similar, 1 to I5 in. diam. Female flowers unknown. 

 Drupes (nearly ripe) reniform-orbicular or sub-reniform, J- to i in. 

 diam., somewhat compressed, greenish, 1-celled, 1 -seeded ; seed 

 reniform or somewhat horseshoe-shaped; albumen scarcely any 

 or thinly mucilaginous ; cotyledons of the same shape as the seed, 

 flat, obliquely obovate, very tender ; radicle short. 



Pungo Andongo. — Parasitical on old branches of Adansonia^ near 

 Calunda, within the fortress, but very rarely met with ; leafy branches 

 in fruit in Jan. 1857, and leafless branches in male flower on the same 

 Adamonki in May 1857. No. 2321. 



