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insects. In the more open forests at the base of Alto Queta, sporadic ; 
fr. June 1855; fl. Dec. 1855. No 4769. At Dalatanda, June 1855 ; 
said to be in fr. No. 4775. A tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; trunk 9 in. in 
diameter at the base, very rarely 12 in. ; fruit shaped like an orange ; 
pulp edible, acidulous-sweet. In the Luinha valley ; fr. 27 July 1856. 
Cott. Carp. 742.  ‘“ Maboca doce,” 1856. Fr. depressed-globose 
2} to 33 in. in diameter. Conn. Carp. 743. 
This must be compared with the last species, of which perhaps it 
may prove to be only a varying form; the calyx-segments in our 
specimens are rather longer than in the type of Gilg’s species. Those 
specimens which are without flowers are still more doubtfully referred. 
3. §. Welwitschii Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 573 (1893). 
S. subscandens Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 96 (June). S. loan- 
densis Baker, S. microcarpa Baker, S. lucens Baker, l.c., p. 97. 
Barra DO Benco and Loanpa.—A shrub with fruit not poisonous 
like Nux-Vomica. Between Quicuxe and Cacuaco; fr. March. 
No. 4765. In young leaf and fl.-bud. No. 6016. A climbing shrub. 
At Loanda ; fl. and unripe fr. Jan. 1858. No. 6017. A subscandent, 
evergreen shrub; unripe fruit ovoid-spherical or oblong, obliquely 
ventricose, green-glaucescent. In the more elevated hilly rocky 
somewhat woody places near Quicuxe ; young fr. May 1854. No. 6018. 
A robust shrub, usually in the form of a small tree ; branches divaricate, 
sarmentose ; the sarmentose branchlets virgate, often climbing, densely 
warty, cirrhose ; the tendrils bifid, with the bifurcations hooked, 
thickened in the middle ; leaves coriaceous, glossy ; fruit spherical, 
resembling a small orange in shape and colour, 1} to 2 in. in diameter, 
harmless, edible. By thickets in dry hilly places in the Loanda 
country, as, for example, at Museque de Senhor Schut ; young fr. 
April; ripe fr. July 1854. Native name “ Maboca.” No. 6015. 
Fruit 14 in. indiameter. No. 4766. A very elegant shrub ; branches 
subscandent ; leaves evergreen ; stipules becoming woody, recurved ; 
fruit precisely resembling an orange. Near Loanda ; seeds Jan. 1854. 
Cott, Carp. 745. A shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high, much branched, evergreen ; 
tendrils simple, circinate-hooked. In bushy places near Quicuxe and 
Mnitollo ; young fr. May 1854. Couu. Carp. 746. 
The specimens from the carpological collection, consisting only of 
seeds or young fruits, are doubtfully referred here. 
The following No. perhaps belongs to this species, but the leaves 
are prolonged at the apex into a long narrow acumen :— 
Gotunco Atto.—A climbing shrub, not lactescent ; wood hard ; 
leaves coriaceous ; fruit reddish. Near Fundo de N-delle, in an Acacia 
forest ; fr. March 1855. No. 4774. 
The following No., of which the material is very scanty, has 
flowers with a long minutely puberulous style and small ovate 
leaves ; it should be compared with S. Welwitschit :-— 
Barra Do DanpEe.—An apparently evergreen shrub with the habit. 
of the order, the leaves falling off in the course of drying. In hilly 
bushy calcareous places near Barra do Dande ; only one specimen with 
a few fl. Nov. 1853. No. 1260. 
4. §. angolensis Gilg, /.c., p. 571. 
Pungo Anponco.—In fl. and fr. No. 6020. An arborescent 
shrub; trunk more or less curved or even twisted, 4 to 5 in. in 
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