Oncinotis | LXXXII. APOCYNACES. 675 
at a very wide angle, terminating at the apex in an incurved acumen. 
In secondary woods at the banks of the river Coango ; fr. June 1856. 
No. 6014. A sarmentose, apparently climbing shrub; leaves ovate- 
oblong or elliptical] ; flowers yellow ; corolla-throat corniculate with 
erect connivent scales. Behind Rodrigo’s house; seeds Oct. 1855. 
Cox. Carp. 724. 
AmpBaca.—An arborescent, scandent, lactescent shrub ; adult stems 
blackish purple ; branches virgate ; fibre very slender ; leaves thinly 
coriaceous, yellow-greenish beneath ; flowers yellow. In thickets near 
Izanga and Cabinda ; without either fl. or fr. Oct. 1856. No. 5959. 
16. BAISSEA Alph. DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 719. 
Perinerion Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. p. 758 (1888). 
1. B. angolensis Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 126, excl. var.; 
Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, n.s., p. 10 (1898). 
Gotunco ALro,—A very elegant, weak, widely climbing shrub ; 
branchlets usually 4 to 7 ft. long, pendulous ; flowers very crowded, 
sweetly aromatic, purplish or whitish-rosy, resembling those of a 
jessamine, ornamental, By thickets on slopes along the river Cuango, 
rather rare, fl. March 1856 ; also in dense thickets on the right bank 
of the same river near the residence of Senhor Rodrigo ; fl, beginning 
of May 1855. No. 5967. 
2. B. major. 
B. angolensis var. major Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 126. 
Punco Anponco.—A robust, lactescent shrub, occasionally arbor- 
escent ; branches virgate, sarmentose, scandent, the younger ones 
rufous-tomentose, leaves evergreen, coriaceous, rather shining, yellowish 
green beneath, with arching veins ; flowers white, fragrant, jessamine- 
like ; young follicles linear, acuminate, geminate. In moist thickets 
at the sides of the rocks of the presidium ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 5966. 
3. B. Welwitschii Stapf ms. in Herb. Kew. 
Perinerion Welwitschii Baill. in Bull. Soe. Linn. Paris, i. p. 758 
(1888); K. Schum. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 174 (1895). 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A copiously lactescent shrub, climbing high and 
widely ; milk somewhat blue; branches green, tortuous, cylindrical, 
very tenacious ; branches sub-opposite, slender ; calyx 5-partite ; the 
segments imbricate, obtuse ; corolla salver-shaped, sordid-white ; the 
tube turbinate, shorter than the lobes of the limb, slightly inflated 
at the base, beset inside with an obsolete ring and 5 fascicles of hairs 
directed downwards, outside shining, glabrous; the limb 5-cleft ; 
the lobes lanceolate, obtuse, whitish, rather concave, sinistrorsely a 
little contorted in wstivation (as seen from above), spreading in full 
flower; throat wide, purple-striate from the mouth to the middle 
of the tube ; stamens 5, inserted a little above the base of the corolla- 
tube, included ; filaments short, a little bearded ; anthers sagittate, 
bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally, connivent in a pyramidal manner 
around the stigma and closely adhering to it ; ovary sessile, sub-bilobed, 
bilocular, the cells with many ovules ; style central, turbinate ; stigma 
ovoid-conical, rather obtuse ; hypogynous disk or glands 0. At the 
outskirts of primitive forests among the mountains of Alto Queta, 
rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1856. No. 5932. 
