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5. C. longipes Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 27. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A strong tree, 20 to 30 ft. high ; branches patent, 
as well as the branchlets and leaves sometimes scattered, sometimes 
ternate ; leaves very large, deciduous, very rough above, discolorous ; 
calyx tubular, densely lepidote-tomentose outside, bursting at the 
apex into 2 to 4 very unequal teeth, obscurely 10- to 12-furrowed ; 
corolla sulphur in colour; the tube exceeding the calyx ; the limb 
rotate, 5- to 7-cleft ; the lobes soon reflected, obovate or oblong ; 
stamens 5 or 6, inserted at the corolla-throat, alternate with the 
lobes of the limb; ovary ovoid-conical, acuminate at the apex, 
alternate at the apex into the style; style bipartite almost to the 
base, the branches bifid to the middle, the branchlets thickened 
upwards and stigmatose ; fruit drupaceous, grape-shaped, an inch long, 
yellowish, ovoid-conical, mucronate at the apex, seated on the hardened 
ashy cupuliform calyx. In primeval forests among the mountains of 
Sobato de Bumba, etc. ; in late fl., 19 Nov. 1855. No. 5428. Flowers 
from whitish to yellowish ; fruit grape-shaped, yellow. At Undelle ; 
fl.-bud, Feb. 1856. No. 5482. <A tree of 20 to 25 ft. or usually a 
small tree of 6 to 10 ft.; flowers yellow ; drupes like a cherry in size 
and shape, sulphur-coloured, very viscid with a dense mucus, turgid, 
monopyrenous by abortion ; seeds 2 or 3. In secondary woods near 
Sange ; ripe fr. July 1857. Perhaps this species. Coun. Carp. 754. 
The following No., represented by a leafy shoot, should be 
compared with this species :— 
GoLunco AtTo.—A moderate-sized tree, with the habit almost of 
a Ficus, a dilated head, and spreading branches. In the forest at 
N-delle ; without either fl. or fr. June 1855. No. 5456. 
6. C. abyssinica R. Br. in Salt Abyss. App. iv. p. lxiv (1814), 
name with reference; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 80 (1851). 
Varronia abyssinica DC. Prodr. ix. p. 469 (1845). 
Var. £. acutifolia A. Rich., /.c. 
GoLtunGo ALto,—A lofty tree, very ornamental in flower ; trunk 
2 to 24 ft. in diameter at its base, usually ascending ; flowers white ; 
calyx 10-ribbed, normally and unequally bursting at the apex ; corolla 
funnel-shaped, very thin in texture, the limb somewhat 5-lobed, lobes 
obcordate ; stamens 5, inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube ; 
filaments from a broad base filiform above, bearded at the middle 
with hyaline pilose hairs ; anthers incumbent, oblong-cordate, 2-celled, 
the cells laterally dehiscent ; ovary free, surrounded with a tender. 
cupuliform membrane ; ovules few ; style elongated, bilobed above 
the middle, the branches again divided, so that there are 4 ligulate 
stigmas. At the banks of the river Quiapoze, rather rare ; fl. 17 May 
1855. No. 5433. 
The two following Nos., represented by leafy shoots or foliage 
only, should be compared with this species and also with the 
Kilimanjaro plant C. Holstii Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C., 
p. 335, t. 41 (1895). 
Go.tunco ALro.—A small tree with the habit almost of Papyrius 
japonica Poir., one of the plants called by the natives “ Quibosa 
Camuchito,” that is, ‘‘Quibosa of the woods,” a name which is applied 
to various trees, shrubs, and even herbs, that serve for the manufacture 
of ropes. Banga do Sobato de Quilombo ; without fl. or fr. Jan. 1855. 
