538 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [Vernonia 
CaAzENGO.—A tree, usually from 15 to 20 ft. high, occasionally 
higher ; the young stem simple, crowned at the apex with a head of 
very large leaves; the older stem sparingly branched, with thick 
elongated distantly-leafy branches ; panicles terminal, white-flowered, 
1} to 23 ft. long ; capitula subsessile, arranged in dense rows along 
the branches of the panicle. In the more elevated primitive forests 
of Serra de Muxaila ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3259. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A tree, 20 to 25 ft., even 35 ft., with a trunk 5 to 
10 in. in diameter at the base, sparingly and thinly branched ; bark 
whitish or grey; head lax; branches elongated, arched upwards, 
sparingly twiggy, subterete, tomentose when young ; the young trees 
simple, crowned with a palm-like head of gigantic fasciculate leaves 
resembling an immense cabbage ; leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, very 
large, ranging up to 2 and4 ft. long by 1 and 12 ft, broad, sinuate-lobed, 
rigid, with thick nerves, fasciculate at the apex of the branches and 
branchlets ; capitula homogamous, obconical, rather small, arranged in 
racemose pyramidal panicles 1 to 2 ft. long, 15- to 20-flowered ; in- 
volucral bracts pluriseriate, loosely imbricate, rigid, pubescent, the 
outer ones very short, rather thick, spreading, rather obtuse ; the inner 
ones elongated, erect, oblong-linear, shortly acuminate; corolla 
whitish with 5 equal ovate-lanceolate lobes much shorter than the 
long tube and with the throat scarcely or but little widened ; anthers 
exserted, appendiculate at the apex, acutely sagittate-caudate at the 
base; stigmas rather long, obtusely subulate, far exserted, recurved, 
inflected or spirally twisted outwards, hispidulous or pubescent all 
round ; achenes obconic-cylindrical, subcompressed, marked with a 
few ribs, glabrous or nearly so, truncate at the apex, with a callus at 
the base a little narrower than the achene and much shorter ; pappus 
uniseriate, many times longer than the achene; the sete crowded, 
nearly as long as the corolla, equal among themselves, slender, rather 
rigid, very densely, very delicately serrulate-setulose, whitish; 
receptacle elevated, areolate. In the primitive forests among the 
mountains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. July and Aug. 1855, fr. Sept. 
1855, sporadic, Native name “ Quipuculo cafele ” (small Quipuculo), 
or “ Quipicolo.” No. 3259). A very beautiful tree of moderate size, 
in youth resembling a palm, from a long distance much like in 
habit Anthocleista nobilis G. Don (which is also called “ Quipucalo ”) ; 
trunk 6 to 10 in. in diameter ; branches and leaves, etc., clothed with 
a more or less rufous tomentum ; flowers whitish, arranged in gigantic 
terminal ovoid-pyramidal panicles. In the elevated forests of Sobato 
Quilombo and Bumba; fl. May and Dec. No. 3269. A tree, 15 to 
20 ft. high ; trunk straight, sparingly branched, when young resembling 
a palm with its broad unlobed leaves 2 to 24 ft. long by 4 to 6 in. 
broad ; flowers whitish, pyramidal-paniculate. In the elevated primitive 
forests not uncommonly attaining 25 or 30 ft. in height ; fr. July 1857. 
CoLL. Carp. 685. 
According to a note of Welwitsch, the trunk of this tree attains 
a foot in diameter, but only so thick in the primitive forests on the 
farther side of the river Zenza. Another native name is “ N-tende.” 
It occurs also in the district of Dembos ; see Welw. Synopse Explic. 
p. 10. n. 17 (1862). 
47. V. Thomsoniana O. & H. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxix. 
p- 91 (1873) and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 295 ; O, Hoffm. in 
Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 16 (1896), 
Ampaca.—A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, with whitish flowers verging on 
