36 XI. viOLACE^. [Rioioi-ea 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A rigid evergreen shrub, 2^ to 4J ft. high, rarely 

 higher. Leaves rigidly chartaceoiis ; flowers red-orange, rather larger 

 than in E. dentata, hardly fragrant ; calyx setose-hispid and like the 

 petals rather fleshy. Frequent in primitive woods of the mountains 

 of Serra de Alta Queta, growing sometimes in rather dry, at other 

 times in damper situations, fl. end of Oct. and in Nov. 1855, fr. March 

 1856. Native name " Tesse." No. 895. A form with longer petioles, 

 in company with the ordinary form, fl. Dec. 1855 ; at the spring of 

 Capopa, fl. March 1855. No. 895/>. A broad-leaved form, also mixed 

 with the ordinary form ; a low subscandent shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high ; leaves 

 papery-coriaceous, occasionally with large teeth ; in very shaded damp 

 spots near the spring of Capopa in Sob. de Bumba, in flower-bud 

 beginning of Dec. 1854. No. 895c. 



6. R. castaneoides O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 42 (1891). 

 Alsodeia castaneoides Welw. in Oliv. Fl. Troj). Afr. i. p. 110. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Much branched, with the habit of Caatanea vesca 

 Gaertn. In rugged wooded places of Barranco de Songue, within the 

 lines of fortification, fl. Dec. 1856, fr. Jan. 1857. No. 884. 



Var. ? strictiflora (Oliv., I.e.). 



CAZENCio. — A shrub of 4 ft., with white flowers. Sparingly in shady 

 woods, amongst shrubs of Cqffea., Hugonia angolensis Welw. Herb. 1585, 

 etc., fl. and young fr. June 1855. No. 883. 



7. R. dentata 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 42 (1891). 

 Alsodeia dentata Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. i. jj. 110. 



Cazengo. — A shrub of 3 to 4 ft., apparently evergreen, with weak 

 branchlets, quasi-subscandent amongst other shrubs. Capsules pen- 

 dulous, clavate, trigonous, green-glaucous, covered with a very short 

 almost obsolete tomentum ; sparingly in elevated thickets on the left 

 bank of the river Luinha, near the Serra de Muxaiila, Dec. 1854. No. 887. 

 A tall shrub, as high as a man ; in the primitive woods of Cambondo, in 

 young fruit June 1855. No. 887&. A shrub, 5 ft. high, branched from 

 the base ; leaves membranous, deep green above, paler beneath, rather 

 glossy ; in primitive very shady woods near Dalatanda, in young fruit 

 June 1855. No. 890- A subscandent shrub, with coriaceous trigonous- 

 clavate somewhat tomentellous capsules. In elevated thickets at the 

 river Luinha ; seeds Dec. 1854. Coll. Carp. 214. Welw. Lichen 

 No. 246 grew on the branchlets of this plant. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An evergreen shrub, 1 to 5 ft. high ; branches 

 flexuous-divaricate ; leaves paper}', nearly dry ; flowers when expanded 

 pale sulphur-coloured, scentless, smaller than in Alsodeia hrachypetala 

 Turcz., paniculate ; petals not strictly equal ; capsules obovoid-trigonous 

 or clavate-trigynous. Frequent in damp woods near cataracts of the 

 river Cuanza and of Capopa near Sange, also in Zengas de Queta ; 

 fl. and fr. Jan., July, Sept., 3 Nov. 1855, March 1856. Native name 

 '' Tesse " or '' Teze " or " Tesse Cabinda." No. 894. 



8. R. Wehvitschii 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 42 (1891). 

 Alsodeia Welimtschii Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 110. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Remarkable for the small black dots on the lower 

 surface of the leaves. Sparingly in primitive woods of Mata de 

 Quisuculo, near Bango; in flower-bud Jan. 1855, without flowers 

 March 1855. No. 882. Welw. Fungi No. 156 grew on the leaves of 

 this plant. 



