Bialium] xliv. leguminos^. 295 



branched, with a rather lax crown ; leaves thickly coriaceous, of a very 

 bright-green colour, shining, closely veined on both surfaces ; flowers 

 yellowish, waxy ; calyx yellow-greenish ; filaments green, thick : 

 anthers ovate, yellow ; ovary central, sessile, ovate, densely rufous- 

 villous, nearly black ; legume ovate, flatly compressed, eaten by the 

 negroes. Not uncommon in the woods on the island Calemba in the 

 river Cuanza, between Condo and Quisonde ; flowering above and in 

 young f r. below, 12 March 1857. No. 602. 



As suggested by Oliver, I.e., this plant may prove to belong to a race 

 of D. gui7ieense, Willd. ; in Angola the name of the former is " Velvet 

 Tamarind," and the same name is applied to the latter in Sierra Leone. 



68. GRIFFONIA Baill. in Adansonia vi. p. 188 in note (7 Oct. 

 1865) ; non Hook. f. £andei7'cea Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL i. p. 577 (Oct. 1865). 



Baillon in Adansonia vii. p. 222 in note (1866) claims priority 

 of publication for his Griffonia over Welwitsch's name. 



1. G. speciosa Taub. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 

 p. 147 (1892). 



Bandeircea speciosa Welw. ex Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 

 p. 306, t. 40 (1865); Welw. Sert. Ang. p. 26, name only (1869); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 284. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A very beautiful climbing shrub, with dark- 

 purple regular flowers like those of Fucli>i'ia ; calyx scarlet, waxy- 

 brittle ; petals obscurely herbaceous-green, very brittle ; ovary few- 

 ovuled ; rather rarely, fl. Nov. 1854. A scandent shrub, sometimes a 

 small tree, rather rarely flowering; flowers with the aspect of those 

 of Schotia ; in the bushy parts of palm-groves, near Bango ; fl. Sept. 

 1855. Not uncommon in thickets around Canguerasange ; a shrub, 

 4 to 5 ft. high, much and patently branched ; seeds obovate- circular or 

 quite circular, lenticular-compressed, girt with a rather acute margin, 

 quite black, | to f in. diam. ; testa rather thickly membranous ; 

 embryo straight ; cotyledons of the same shape as the seed, black, 

 fleshy, on the margin sharp, rather convex on the external surface, flat 

 on the internal surface ; radicle sub-oblique, short, exserted, very 

 obtusely conical ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. No. 559. Coll. Carp. 538. 

 In the primitive woods around Delamboa, widely climbing on trees 

 with Dalhousiea africana S. Moore ; fl. Feb. 1855 ; forms with more 

 acute leaves. Also in mountainous wooded stations in Sobato de 

 Bumba, Oct. 1855. No. 5596. On the highest parts of Cungulun- 

 gulo ; fr. Feb. 1855. Only one pod ; it measured 2^ in. long by 1^ in. 

 thick by § in. deep, on a pedicel of 1 in. Coll. Carp. 484. A shrub 

 standing erect or usually scandent ; flowers red-scarlet ; pods inflated, 

 quite black, 1 to 1^ in. long, 2-4-seeded ; seeds transverse. Bango 

 Aquitamba ; fr. June. Coll. Carp. 495. 



The plant occurred in company with Cacoucia platyptera Welw. 

 Herb. No. 1752 ; see Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 26. 



Coll. Carp. 496 consists of seeds of Schotia qjeclosa Jacq., from 

 a cultivated specimen obtained for comparison with this species of 

 Griffojiia. 



69. BATTHINIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 575. 

 1. B. cissoides Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 287. 

 Ambaca. — A climbing shrub or undershrub, with the habit of Vitis 



