672 LXXXII. APOCYNACE®. | Strophanthus 
at the base as thick as the middle finger, cylindrical-subulate, unisulcate 
beneath, geminate at a very wide angle when not quite ripe, In low 
forests between Cazella and Luxillo, sparingly; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 
5926. An evergreen, twining, resinous-milky shrub ; bark verrucose ; 
leaves coriaceous, deep green and rather shining above, whitish be- 
neath ; corolla handsome, dilated-campanulate, white ; segments of 
the limb rosy, without tails at the apex, reflected at the time of the 
open flower ; ligules of the throat 10, linear-lanceolate, deep purple : 
stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, included; anthers sagittate. 
aristate at the apex, pyramidately surrounding the Phallus-shaped 
stigma in the excavation at its insertion on the style, follicles divaricate, 
3 to 44 in. long, rather obtusely subulate, obtusely angular at the base, 
subcompressed-bisulcate at the apex. In wooded thickets between the 
presidium and the river Cuanza, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. 16 Nov. 
1856. No. 5991. 
Huitia.—A shrub, as tall as a man; branches at length elongated, 
climbing ; bark minutely white-tuberculate ; flowers campanulate, 
whitish, rosy inside on corolla-tube and ligules; corolla-lobes not 
appendaged at the apex, but bi-ligulate about the throat inside ; 
follicles elongate-conical, tuberculate. In Morro de Lopollo fl. Dec. 
1859. No. 5990. An evergreen, very beautiful, arborescent shrub or 
small tree of 5 to 7 ft.; branches sarmentose ; corolla whitish-rosy, 
variegated with purple on the throat and ligules, the segments of the 
limb scarcely caudate. In the forests of Cordicheira, Lopollo ; fr. Jan. 
and May 1860. Cot. Carp, 22. Without locality or notes. COoLt. 
Carp. 1117. 
12. MOTANDRA Alph. DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 715. 
1. M. guineensis Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 423 (1844). 
Echites guineensis Thonn. ex Schum. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 
iii. p. 169 (1828). #. paniculata Thonn. ex Alph. DC., /.c., non 
Poir. nec Roxb. 
Gotunco ALTo.—A robust shrub, climbing far and high, more or 
less lactescent ; branchlets rufous-tomentose ; leaves closely resembling 
those of a beech, deep green, chartaceous-herbaceous, glossy, almost 
glabrous, somewhat pilose along the midrib and at the axils of the 
lateral nerves ; flowers moderately abundant ; corolla whitish, quickly 
withering, salver-shaped ; the lobes of the limb spreading at the time 
of the open flower, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse ; corolla-tube naked 
within, inflated at the base ; stamens 5, inserted at the base of the 
tube ; filaments rather thick, curved inwards; anthers sagittate, 
closely adpressed to the stigma, comose at the apex; hypogynous 
glands 5, sordid-yellow, erect, flattened, truncate at the apex, lamelli- 
form ; style seated on the hollowed apex of the ovary ovoid-fusiform 
bifid at the apex and stigmatose nearly throughout (or the style short, 
with a fusiform stigma bifid at the apex); ovary 2-celled, the cells 
with many ovules. In thickets by the Ambaca road near Ponte de 
Luiz Simoes (a very milky state of the plant); fl. end of Oct. 1855. 
Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. and fr. 22 Oct. 1854 ; on the highest ridges 
of the forests of Alto Queta (a sparing milky state); fl, beginning 
of Nov. 1855. No. 5964. A very lactescent and extensively scandent 
shrub; leaves opposite, smooth; flowers paniculate, white; near 
Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. and fallen fr. Oct. 1854. Seeds only, per- 
haps belonging to this species. Cou. Carp. 723. 
Cort. Carp, 1118, consisting of follicles about 6 in. long shortly 
