84 XXIV. STERCULiACEuE. [Sterculio, 



Ambaca. — Rather rare on rather moist wooded slopes, at an elevation 

 of about 3200 ft. above sea-level, near a place called Puricacarambola, 

 in nearly ripe fr. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 4695. Coll. Carp. 274, 946. 



2. OCTOLOBUS Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 982 

 (1867) ; Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lend, xxvii. p. 17 (1869). 



1. 0. spectabilis Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 18, t. 6. 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, patently branched, with 

 a lax crown ; sporadic, in the mountainous rocky woods of the fortress 

 of Pungo Andongo, at a place called Barranco da Pedra Songue ; fl. Jan., 

 fr. April 1857. No. 1202. Coll. Carp. 281. 



3. EDWAR.DIA Bafinesque, Specchio delle Scienze, tom. 2 

 (No. xi.), p. 158 (1 Nov. 1814). Cola H. Schott k Endl. ; Benth. 

 & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 218. 



1. E. lurida Bafinesqne, I.e. 



Cola acuminata Brown in PI. Jav. Bar. p. 237 (1844); Masters 

 in Oliv. n. Trop. Air. i. p. 220. Lunanea Bichy DC Prodr. ii. 

 p. 92 (1825). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the forests of Cabanga Cacabango ; fl. Jan. 

 1855. No. 4669. At Bango Aquitamba, flower-bud Dec. 1854. No. 4670. 

 A copiously leafy tree, 25 to 60 ft. high and more, affording friendly 

 hospitality to mosses, lichens, orchids and Rhipsalis Camytha Gaertn. ; 

 seeds eaten by the negroes ; in the dense forests of Sobato de Quilembo- 

 Quiacatubia ; fr. from Nov. to Jan., fl. and young fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4671. 

 At Quilombo, fl. July 1856. No. 4672. A little tree, 8 ft. high ; at 

 Capopa, not in fl. Dec. 1855. No. 4673. Nuts of Cola. Coll. Carp. 282. 

 Island of St. Thomas. — In flower-bud Dec. 1860; called "Cola." 

 No. 4677. 



Sierra Leone. — Fl. Sept. 1853 ; perhaps var./3. {Sterculia macrocarpa 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. i. p. 515, 1831). No. 4676. 



The next two Nos. differ by their more oblong leaves rounded 

 at the base, and may belong to a different species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Capopa, Aug. 1856 ; branch with foliage. No. 4674. 

 A shrub or little tree, 10 to 12 ft. high ; branches rather erect ; branch- 

 lets green ; habit of Laurus or of Mangifera ; leaves coriaceous, ever- 

 green, with the petiole much swollen at the base of the blade and twice 

 jointed— namely, there and at its insertion ; about the spring at Capopa 

 in Sobato de Bumba ; not yet seen in flower, July 1855. No. 4675. 



According to a note amongst Welwitsch's mss. the expanded flowers 

 of this tree possess a vinous-aromatic odour, which, however, after 

 complete fecundation, becomes fetid and almost excremental. The 

 plant is both indigenous and cultivated in the mountainous districts, 

 and affords a lucrative article of export to Brazil. 



2. E. caricaefolia 0. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. i. p. 79 (1891). 



Cola Afzelii Masters, I.e., p. 223. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A slender little tree, with branches forming a 

 leafy crown, never seen by Welwitsch in flower ; leaves like in habit 

 those of some Euphorbiacea;. At the skirts of primitive forests, near 

 Sange, Dec. 1855. No. 4680- Apparently belonging to this species, 

 although the leaf differs from those of Brown's types by the absence 

 of ferruginous spreading hairs on the principal nerves near the base 



