Stapelia] LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADEM. 699 
branched from the base ; branches ascending, tetragonal, obtusely taper- 
ing towards the apex, obsoletely puberulous ; the angles at least on the 
upper part muricate with obtuse short teeth ; follicles spindle-shaped, 
finely striate longitudinally, obsoletely tomentellous, erect, 4} in. 
long, 4 in. broad, supported on an erect peduncle about 4 in. long 
which ascends from the middle of a branch ; fruiting calyx 5-partite, 
the segments lanceolate, minutely puberulous, } in. long. In dry hilly 
places by the Giratil river ; fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4263. 
LXXXIV. LOGANIACE. 
This Order, which contains the virulent poisonous drug, the 
Nux-Vomica, furnishes also well-tasting fruits resembling oranges, 
belonging to a section of the same genus, Strychnos, and called by 
the natives “ Maboca.” Under this name the fruits of several 
different species are known in Angola which are wholesome and very 
common, especially in the interior of Huilla, where at their proper 
season, in December and January, the natives can buy from two to 
four dozen for a cotton handkerchief or a sheet of white paper. The 
fruit forms a considerable part of the sustenance of the negroes, 
and it is also much appreciated by the European colonists for the 
sake of the acidulous-sweet and refreshing pulp which surrounds the 
seeds. There are two species of “‘ Maboca” in the Huilla forests, 
the fruits of which, although tolerably alike outside and even in 
taste, differ greatly in the effect on the digestion; the one, which 
comes from trees with membranous and deciduous leaves, is 
pleasant and perfectly innocuous ; while the other, which proceeds 
from a tree of 20 or occasionally 25 ft. high, with its trunk 1 to 
14 ft. in diameter, and with evergreen stout and coriaceous leaves, 
provokes not uncommonly colic and diarrhea. (See Welwitsch, 
Apontam. p. 549, n. 90, and Synopse Explic. p. 17, n. 42 and 
p. 34, n. 88 ; and Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 224 [1884]). 
1. MOSTUEA F. Didr.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 789; 
Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris i. p. 244 (1880). 
Coinochlamys T. And. ex Benth. & Hook. f., /.c., p. 1091. 
The capsules in this genus bear a resemblance to those of Veronica. 
1. M. fuchsiefolia Baker in Kew Bull., “April and May” 
(June) 1895, p. 96. 
Puneo ANDonGo.—An erect, slender, much branched shrub, 3 to 5 ft 
high ; branches long, divaricate ; leaves obovate, puberulous ; flowers 
pentamerous, rather fleshy, milk-white, glabrous as well as the slender 
peduncles ; ovary bilocular, the cells bi-ovulate, the ovules collateral, 
erect ; style bifid, the lobes again bifid ; capsule compressedly obovate- 
reniform, bilocular, in shape and structure almost like Bursaria ; the 
cells dispermous. In thickets at the outskirts of Mata de Cabondo, in 
the presidium ; fl. Feb., fr. May 1857. No. 4759. 
This species is very closely allied to M. Brunonis F. Didr. in Vidensk. 
Meddel. Nat. Hist. Kjébenh., 1853, Nr. 3-4, p. 87 (1854), but differs 
by the presence of pubescence on the inflorescence and by larger flowers 
with a less deeply divided calyx ; it is also closely allied to Leptocladus 
Thomsoni Oliv. 
