662 LXXXII, APOCYNACES. [ Pacouria 
the younger twigs and also the fresh leaves are covered with a silky 
pubescence which in the course of drying turns rusty-brown; the 
leaves are opposite and when fully grown become rather coriaceous, 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, more or less acuminate at the apex, some- 
what attenuate but sub-obtuse at the base, quite entire, 24 to 7 in. 
long by 1 to 3 in. broad, distantly penninerved, shining and densely 
reticulate on both faces ; petioles slightly pubescent, channelled, } to 
+ in. long; inflorescence terminal, much branched, many flowered, 
corymbose, at first very dense ; peduncle at first very short, afterwards 
elongating and reaching 2 to 3 in. long. With the exception of the 
corolla, which is quite glabrous outside and at first white, but very 
soon changes to a dusky red tint, the whole of the inflorescence is 
covered with a ferruginous or nearly cinnamon-coloured pubescence, 
which, however, gradually disappears from the fruiting peduncles so 
as to be scarcely discernible on them when they ultimately become 
transformed into spirally twisted tendrils. The fruit of this species, 
as well as those of P, florida and P. crassifolia, is of the shape of 
a middle-sized orange but rather pyriform, and when quite ripe is 
covered outside with thick wrinkles and contains, under its hard 
almost woody reddish-brown skin, a sweet slightly acid pulp with 
numerous bean-like seeds ; the copious horny albumen of the seeds splits 
into two nearly equal halves, showing in the centre the erect embryo 
with its ample membranous oblong very obtuse cotyledons of the same 
length as the albumen and with its short turgid nearly obtuse radicle. 
Welwitsch reported that this plant is frequently met with in Sobato 
de Quilombo-Quiacatubia situate on the frontier of the district of the 
Dembos, and also in several of the highland districts of the interior ; 
he gave its geographical range as extending from 10° N. lat. to 10° 
S. lat. in Western Africa. The natives of Golungo Alto bring at 
times small quantities of the elastic gum to the markets on the coast. 
See Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 50, n. 134. 
2. P. florida. 
Landolphia florida Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 444 (1849) ; 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 216 (1884). LZ. comorensis (Boj.) var. 
florida K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 404. 
GoLunco ALTo and CazENco.—A robust shrub, climbing to the 
tops of the loftiest trees and then near Cambondo flowering in company 
with a species of Combretum (cf. C. paniculatum Vent. and C. angolense 
Welw. ; herb. Nos. 4363, 4323) ; stem milky ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, 
thining above, elliptical or oblong, large (6 to 7 in. long by 2 to 3 in. 
broad) ; flowers terminal and axillary, corymbose, white, very fragrant, 
handsome ; corolla-tube not always pilose inside above ; corolla-lobes 
thinly pubescent on both faces, this pubescence in some flowers ex- 
tending within the throat ; anthers oblong-linear, obtuse at the apex, 
emarginate at the base, attached at the back to the filament a little 
above the emargination ; style firm, strictly erect, gradually narrowed 
from the broader base, scarcely filiform ; fruit baccate, oblong-ovoid, 
as large as a man’s fist (3} in. in vertical diameter, 2 to 24 in. in 
transverse diameter), aromatic, milky, edible, agreeably acidulous, the 
skin rugose, verrucose-scrobiculate, orange-coloured when ripe ;_ the 
milk soon coagulating into an elastic gum. At Sange; fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1855. At the margins of forests among the mountains of Alto 
Queta and near Cambondo, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 1854, fr. June 1855. 
At Quibolo, fl. Aug. 1856. Negro name ‘“ Matuti,” “ Dituti,’ or 
“Rituti.” No. 5929 and Conn. Carp. 715. 
