Leea] xl. ampelide^. 165 



tripinnate, 2 to 3 ft, long, widely sheathing at the base ; leaflets sub- 

 coriaceous, very glossy ; peduncles leaf-opposed ; flowers cymose- 

 umbellate, orange-yellow or often bright scarlet, sometimes yellow or 

 orange-red ; cymes 4 in. in diam. ; fruit of the size of a small cherry, 

 compressed-hemispherical, dark-blue or purple, soft, marked outside 

 with 6 vertical furrows indicating the 6 cells, filled with a liquid dark- 

 violet pulp ; cells 1-seeded ; seeds ovoid-triangular, of a dark-chestnut 

 colour. Common in primitive woods and in moist palm-groves 

 throughout the district, especially by springs and streams ; fl. during 

 nearly the whole year, fr. from July to Sept. 1856 ; Capopa and 

 Zenza. No. 1487. Cungulungulo, Feb. 1855, in company with 

 Hcemanthus. No. 1487&. An undershrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; in palm- 

 groves near Sange ; seeds April 1855. Coll. Carp. 340. Near the 

 river Cuango in palm-groves ; fr. July 1855. Coll. Carp. 341. 

 By the Cuango in shade ; seeds Dec. 1855. Coll. Carp. 342. 



2. L. tinctoria Lindl. (also Welw.) ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 416 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 167 ; Ficalho, 

 PL Uteis p. 123 (1884). 



Island of St. Thomas. — A small sub-herbaceous tree or bush, 5 to 

 8 ft. high, rarely 10 ft. high, usually a shrub of 5 to 6 ft., very elegant, 

 with the aspect of Meliace?e ; stems somewhat plurisulcate, reddish ; 

 leaves alternate, bipinnate ; leaflets broadly elliptical, with a long 

 acumen at the apex, distantly dentate serrate with pointed teeth, 

 glabrous ; peduncles opposite the leaves, much shorter than the petioles, 

 much compressed, cymose- decompound, 2-3-chotomous, rufous-hairy 

 above ; flowers from yellow turning to red or altogether bright red, 

 rather large, ventricose-cylindrical in the bud, pedicellate ; pedicels 

 longer than the calyx, ^ in. long or rather longer, subangular in young 

 fruit; calyx glandular-tuberculate, campanulate, rather thick, 5-dentate; 

 teeth rigid, pointed ; petals 5, rather thick and rigid, fleshy, brittle 

 when dry, oblong-linear, 2 or 3 times as long as the calyx, at length 

 reflexed, cohering at the base and adnate to the staminal tube ; staminal 

 tube cylindrically- pitcher-shaped, elongated, 5-clef t ; lobes erect, obtuse ; 

 filaments 5, free, inserted at the base of the free part of the tube, 

 flattened, turned inwards and antheriferous at the apex ; anthers 

 cohering by their margins, included between the lobes at the inner part 

 of the tube, opposite to the petals ; ovary glandular-tuberculate,6-celled ; 

 cells 1-ovuled ; style straight, cylindrical, as long as the staminal tube ; 

 stigma depresso-capitate ; young fruit depresso-globose, thinly tuber- 

 culate, 6-celled, umbonate with the remains of the deciduous style. 

 A valuable and beautiful violet-coloured dye is obtained from this 

 plant and is employed by the natives. Native name " Cele cele." 

 In wooded mountainous places, along streams, at Fazenda do Monte 

 Caffe ; very sparingly fl. Dec. 1860. No. 1502. 



XLI. SAPINDACEiE. 



The Sapindacese principally frequent the mountainous region, 

 where they are met with in the humid and shady woods of the 

 mountainous districts, especially those of Quilombo, Quiacatubia, 

 and Alto Quota ; they are very variable in habit, presenting 

 themselves in some cases in the form of herbaceous or shrubby 

 climbers, in others as trees more or less elevated and nearly 

 always with shining and evergi-een foliage ; some species of Cardio- 

 spermum infest as herbs only the standing crops; the genera 



