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The fruit of this is the most appreciated of all the species of the 
genus by the natives. The geographical range is nearly the same as 
that of P. owariensis, and it occurs in nearly all the primeval forests in 
the interior of Angola, where at an elevation from 1500 to 2500 ft. 
it is often met with ; it is a beautiful climber, with its snow-white, 
jessamine-scented flowers and sweet acidulous fruit. 
3. P. crassifolia. 
Landolphia Petersiana (K1.), var. crassifolia K. Schum., l.c., 
p. 408, as to Welwitsch’s No. cited, t. xii. fig. A. 
A robust shrub, widely climbing; branches and peduncles 
becoming woody when old, very tenacious, dusky, puberulous or 
glabrescent ; leaves dryly coriaceous, hard, rigid, oval or oblong, 
nearly rounded or obtuse at the base, obtusely cuspidate at the 
apex, subglabrous except the puberulous midrib beneath, deep 
green and glossy above, paler and beautifully reticulate beneath, 
3 to 44 in. long by 14 to 24 in. broad; lateral nerves patent, 
numerous, delicate ; petiole + to 2 in. long, puberulous ; flowers 
1 to 12 in. long just before expansion, whitish, very abundant, 
salver-shaped, whitish, umbellate-capitate in terminal and axillary 
retroflected or nodding pedunculate often quasi-cirrhiform panicles ; 
calyx sub-campanulate, tomentellous outside, } in. long, with a 
quingquefid limb; the lobes sometimes unequal and distant, in 
other flowers broader approximated and almost equal; corolla- 
tube straight or a little incurved, somewhat puberulous outside, 
about 1 in, long or rather more, yellow at the base where it is 
covered by the calyx, a little dilated and then narrowed and again 
dilated about the situation of the anthers, the whole becoming 
purple, shaggy inside above the stamens ; corolla-lobes obovate- 
oblong, about 4 in. long, on one side bearded with long ciliate 
hairs, snow-white, dextrorsely contorted in estivation (as seen 
from above); stamens placed below the middle of the corolla- 
tube ; style firm, cylindrical, glabrous ; stigma capitate-clavate, 
bilobed at the apex, about on a level with the anthers, the lobes 
conical; fruit baccate, as large as a good-sized pigeon’s egg, 
perfectly spherical, glaucous-green outside, yellowish inside when 
ripe, softening, pulpy inside; seeds embedded in the pulp. Native 
name “ Rituti (or Dituti) era ofele.” 
Gotunco ALTO.—In the lower mountain forests of Queta, near 
Cahunha, and in Sobato de Bumba; fl. and fr. end of Oct. 1855. 
No. 5927. Cf. Cou. Carp. 194. 
4, P. parvifolia. 
Landolphia parvifolia K. Schum., l.c., p. 409, t. xii., fig. C. 
Houitita.—A much-branched, climbing shrub ; flowers white ; fruit 
edible, almost spherical, quite smooth outside (not rough as in the 
other species), ike a small orange in shape, but greenish-purple 
outside. In the rocky wooded thickets of Morro de Lopollo, at an 
elevation of 5300 ft.; fl. April 1860; fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. The 
negroes of the district call the fruit ‘‘ Mahungo” ; it is also called by 
the colonists “‘Maboca pequena.” No. 5928. Shrubby, scandent ; 
flowers pale yellow ; fruit spherical, 1 to 2 in. in diameter, pleasantly 
