674 LXXXII. APOCYNACEA. | Alafia 
3. A. sarmentosa Stapf, /.c., p. 123. 
Go.tunGo Atro.—An evergreen, lactescent shrub, with the habit of 
a jessamine, climbing widely, pendulous ; branches long, sarmentose, 
encumbering bushes and the lower trees ; flowers whitish-rosy, very 
agreeably vanilla-scented ; corolla salver-shaped, white ; the throat 
somewhat bearded, blood-red ; the lobes of the limb ovate-lanceolate, 
rather obtuse. In the less dense thickets among the Queta mountains, 
above N-dele, rather rare ; fl. end of March 1856. No. 5965. 
15. ONCINOTIS Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 718. 
1. 0. hirta Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiii. p, 25. t, 1232 (1878). 
Motandra Welwitschiana Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 
p. 760 (1888). 
GoLuNGOo ALTO,—A robust arborescent shrub, climbing far and high, 
copiously lactescent, distinguished by the yellowish colour of all its parts 
and covered with a felt composed of branched hairs ; the milky juice 
very sour ; leaves pleasantly green in the living state, at length in the 
dry state turning yellow ; flowers from whitish to yellowish, almost 
greenish ; corolla salver- -shaped, spreading in a star at the time of the 
open flower, of a pale sulphur colour ; the tube pentagonal at the base 
where it is inserted outside a cyathiform disk 5-lobed at the mouth ; 
lobes of the corolla-limb 5, lanceolate, rather fleshy ; the throat closed 
with 5 corniculate appendages alternating with the lobes; the tube 
pilose within ; stamens 5, inserted a little above the base of the tube ; 
filaments broad, very short; anthers white, lanceolate, acuminate 
at the apex, produced at the base into hyaline glands, adhering to 
the style (or rather to the stigma), and so connivent ; ovary sessile 
at the bottom of the disk, reaching higher than the cup of the 
disk, ovoid-cylindrical, 2- (or perhaps 3- or 4-) lobed at the apex, 
pilose ; style central, 1, as high as the stamens, fusiform-thickened 
upwards, inflated and stigmatose above, terminating at the apex 
in a subulate not stigmatose appendage; young follicles geminate, 
shaggy-tomentose with a dusky felt. Along streams from Quilombo- 
Quiacatubia towards the river Zenza, young fr. Feb. 1855 ; by the dense 
thickets along the base of the mountains of Quilombo-Quiacatubia, also 
in Queta, Ponte de Felix Simées, fi. Dec. 1855; also by the tall 
secondary thickets between Ponte de Luiz Simoes and Camilungo ; 
fl. April and May 1855. No. 5956. 
2. O. glabrata Stapf. ms. in Herb. 
Motandra glabrata Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i, p. 760 (1888). 
GoLuneo ALtTo,—A robust, lactescent shrub, climbing rather high 
and widely ; flowering branchlets nodding ; leaves coriaceous, shining; 
flowers from green to yellow; follicles conical, terminating at the 
apex in a curved acumen. At the outskirts of the forest by the 
Ambaca road ; fl. Feb., fr. June 1856. No. 5957. 
The follicles are fusiform, spreading, 33 to4 in. long. The following 
Nos. should be compared with this species, which appears to differ 
but little from the original species of the genus, 0. nitida Benth., 
though the foliage is scarcely so thin and the inflorescence rather denser, 
Go.unGo ALTo.—A high-climbing lactescent shrub, with cylindrical- 
conical follicles 3 to 4 in. ‘long ; in the forests of the Queta mountains, 
rather rare; fr. 8 Oct. 1855. No. 5958. By the Capopa road ; without 
either fl. or fr. May 1856. No. 5959+. A robust, climbing shrub ; 
flowers yellow ; follicles large, conical-cylindrical. opposite, spreading 
