668 LXXXII. APOCYNACER. [Tabernanthe 
a small tree 8 to 12 ft. high, rarely 15 ft., bare to the top of the slender 
trunk of 5 to 6 ft., then patently branched ; branches and branchlets 
dichotomous, compressed at the nodes ; leaves thinly coriaceous or 
membranous, a little fleshy, dark green, soft and rather glossy above, 
pale yellowish-green and rather shining beneath ; stipules interpetiolar, 
inside with dense rows of whitish cilia ; flowers yellow ; calyx 5-cleft, 
the lobes keeled, imbricate, corolline-yellowish, closely investing the 
base of the corolla ; corolla somewhat salver-shaped, sulphur-coloured ; 
the tube dilated below, fleshy, gradually constricted towards the throat ; 
the limb 5-cleft ; the segments patent during the flowering, soon 
revolute, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from above) in estivation, 
unequal-sided, the outer side undulate ; stamens inserted below the 
middle of the corolla-tube (where it is dilated) ; filaments scarcely 
any ; anthers subsessile, sagittate, shortly aristate at the apex, sur- 
rounding the stigma in a pyramidal manner ; ovary ovoid, entire, 
obsoletely bisulcate, unilocular ; placenta central, multi-ovulate ; style 
firm, cylindrical, bearing at the apex the ovoid-acuminate stigma which 
is situate upon a very broad membranous disk ; ripe fruit as large as a 
pigeon’s egg, like a lemon in its shape and golden colour. In small 
woods, occupying the deepest cracks of the rocks of the presidium ; fl. 
Nov. 1856 ; also in the primitive thickets of Barrancos da Pedra Songue 
in the presidium, at the Cazalalé, rather rare, fl. and fr. Dec. 1856, 
Feb. and April 1857. No. 5950. An evergreen little tree ; flowers 
yellow ; fruit consisting always of only one follicle, straight on the 
peduncle, in form and colour like a small lemon. In damp forests 
in the presidium ; fl. Dec. 1856, fr. Feb. 1857. Cou. Carp. 728. 
9. VOACANGA P. Thouars in Roem.Coll. Bot.p. 203, n. 32 (1809). 
1. V. angolensis Stapf ms. in Herb, Kew. 
V. africana Stapf in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 87 (partly) (1894). 
Ampaca.—A milky shrub of 5 to 7 ft. ; stems erect, rather much- 
branched ; branches spreading, almost uniformly dichotomous, marked 
with the scars of fallen leaves, copiously flowering ; leaves thinly 
coriaceous, rather fleshy, shining, deep green ; flowers deep sulphur- 
yellow, attractive. In bushy hilly places between N-gombe and Puri- 
Cacarambola ; fl. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 5978. 
Go._unGo ALTo,—A small tree abounding in a milky viscid juice ; 
leaves sub-coriaceous, glossy above ; flowers sulphur-yellow ; follicles 
(by abortion usually solitary on each peduncle, which becomes woody 
compressed and two-edged as the fruit ripens), of the size of a small 
apple, pale yellow, subglobose, somewhat striate, obliquely umbonate, 
filled with a yellow pulp and embedded seeds, dehiscing on one side 
from the base to the umbilicus. In wooded rather elevated places 
near Canguerasange and Quilombo ; fl. Nov. 1854. No. 5979. An 
arborescent shrub, evergreen ; flowers sulphur-yellow ; follicles as large 
as a hen’s egg, ovoid-claviform, many-seeded. Queta ; seeds, May 1856. 
Cott. Carp. 720. A small tree of 6 to 9 ft., patently branched, in 
secondary thickets usually a shrub ; stems and all parts, even the fruit, 
abounding in a thick milk ; flowers sulphur-yellow ; fruit drupaceous, 
as large as a walnut, usually two together on the peduncle, unilocular ; 
seeds very numerous, embedded in pulp. In shady forests among the 
mountains of Quibixe, etc., plentiful ; fl. and young fr. Nov. and Dec. 
1855. No. 5980. A broadiy frondose tree of 15 to 20 or rarely of 
25 ft., in secondary woods about 20 ft. higb, or an arborescent shrub ; 
flowers flaxen yellow. Queta, fr. May 1856 ; Mussengue, fr. July 1857. 
Cott. Carp. 721. No notes, Cort. Carp. 956. A small tree or 
