Nuwia] LXXXIV. LOGANIACE&. 701 
Punco ANDONGO.—A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; branches spreading, 
tortuous ; leaves coriaceous ; flowers white. In wooded places at the 
river Tangue, sporadic ; fl. end of May 1857. No. 5678. 
Grows also among the high mountains of Dembos ; its wood has a 
very fine grain, white, and compact, and is well adapted for turnery ; 
the tree however is not very plentiful, and occurs in stations difficult of 
access. (See Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 8, n, 8.) 
3. BUDDLEJA Houst. ex L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 
p. 793 (Buddeia). 
1. B. madagascariensis Lam. Encycl. Méth. i. p. 513 (Budleia) 
(1783) ; Melliss, St. Helena, p. 298 (1875). 
IsLAND OF St. HeELENA.—A slender, climbing shrub, with the habit 
almost of Verbenacez, but with the structure rather of Scrophulariacee ; 
branches and branchlets branny-felted, whitish-floccose ; flowers herma- 
phrodite, deep orange in colour ; calyx tubular-campanulate, quadri- 
dentate at the mouth ; corolla-tube straight, somewhat salver-shaped, 
exceeding the calyx, shaggy within ; the limb 4- or very rarely 5-cleft, 
with obovate-oblong lobes spreading horizontally ; stamens 4, inserted 
in the sinuses alternate to the corolla-lobes ; anthers scarcely protruded 
beyond the corolla-tube, erect, bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally ; 
ovary ovoid, free ; placentation central, multi-ovulate ; style solitary 
filiform, terminating in a thick oblong-spathulate rather viscid stigma, 
falling a little short of the anther-tips ; filaments very short or almost 
obsolete. Cultivated at Loanda in the garden of Senhor Gabriel ; 
fl. Sept. 1858. No. 4762. 
4, ANTHOCLEISTA Afzel.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 795. 
1. A. macrantha Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 578 (1893). 
A. nobilis Welw. Apontam. p. 549, under n. 90 (1859) ; perhaps 
not of G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 68 (1837). A. Vogelit Ficalho, 
Pl. Uteis, p. 223 (1884) ; perhaps not of Planch. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 793-4 (1848). 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A tree, in habit resembling in its youth an elegant 
palm, repeatedly and dichotomously branched, attaining in the primitive 
forests a height of 50 ft., and bearing at the extremities of its branchlets 
tufts of gigantic leaves, from the centre of which proceeds the flowering 
corymb of 3 ft. or even longer ; flowers handsome ; corolla pale sulphur 
in colour, fleshy-coriaceous, brittle, thrown off in a few hours or usually 
within a quarter of an hour after its complete expansion from the 
investing calyx, quickly rotting after its fall ; the limb 13- to 15-cleft, 
the lobes contorted in zstivation, spreading in a rotate manner when 
fully expanded ; stamens equal in number to the corolla-lobes ; capsule 
as large as a small walnut. In the primitive forests of the Sobatos of 
Quilombo, Bumba, and Queta ; in the secondary woods the trees are 
lower, 20 to 25 ft. high, with broader foliage ; fl. and young fr. March 
1856 ; fl. March and April 1856 ; a young tree, without fl. or fr. July 
1856. Native name “ Quipuculo-puculo.” No. 6021 and CoLu. Carp. 
741. Sobato Quilombo, young foliage, Feb. 1855. No. 60210. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In damp forests at the banks of the river Lombe ; 
a tree-like shrub or young tree, without fl. or fr. March 1857, No. 6022. 
This tree, with its very peculiar habit, abounds in the woods of the 
pee ieulon: region, and forms one of the chief features of the virgin 
orest. 
