Cordia| ; LXXXVI. BORAGINE®. 715 
No. 4791. Leaves of the young branch of the tree from which flowers 
had been previously gathered. Roadway near Mussengue, at the foot 
of the saltpetre cavern, Jan. 1856. No. 5462. 
7. C. aurantiaca Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 26. 
GoLuNGoO ALTO.—An evergreen, much branched tree, 20 to 25 ft. 
high ; inner bark very tenacious, textile; leaves rather fleshy, 
subcoriaceous ; inflorescence ebracteolate ; calyx dusky-tomentose, 
ribbed with 10 folds of which 5 are strongly prominent, tubular, but 
little cleft at the apex, deeply crenate ; corolla saffron-yellow, salver- 
shaped, embracing the germen at the bottom of the calyx about the 
base; the tube ribbed ; the limb 5- or almost oftener 6-cleft; the 
lobes oblong, pervaded with 3 thick folds, more or less undulate at 
the margin, produced at the apex into a subulate pilose appendage, 
convolute-plicate in exstivation, patent in flower, soon reflected ; 
stamens 5 or 6, inserted a little below the corolla-throat, exserted ; 
anthers cordate-oblong, dorsifixed, introrse, 2-celled, longitudinally 
dehiscing ; ovary globose, free, subsessile, smooth ; style-branches 
bifurcate ; stigmas 4, green, peltate-capitate, exserted ; drupe baccate, 
monopyrenous, mostly 2-celled ; putamen rather bony ; seeds solitary. 
In the less dense forests and at the banks of rivulets, near 
Bango, Menha-Lula, etc., not plentiful ; fl. Dec. 1854 and July 1855 
No. 5430. A tree of 15 to 20 ft. with its trunk 6 to 9 in. in diameter 
at the base (about the negro villagessit is usually only a shrub of 8 to 
10 ft., as it 1s in such places continually mutilated) ; branches erect- 
spreading or patent, a little tortuous ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, ever- 
green, dull green above, much paler beneath, the blade usually concave 
and curved inwards beneath with the margin variously inflected ; 
flowers in colour sulphur varying to orange ; calyx tubular, 10-ribbed, 
folded between the ribs; the limb short, 4- or 5-cleft; corolla-limb 
5- to 7-cleft ; the lobes at the base longitudinally at the middle and 
apex transversely plicate-wavy, with a long abrupt limp mucro at the 
apex ; stamens 5 to 7, alternating with the corolla-lobes ; style filiform, 
with two dichotomous branches ; stigmas 4, peltate, greenish ; drupe 
sulphur in colour, as large as a hazel nut. At the outskirts of forests 
nearly everywhere, but solitary and not in groups ; near Sange, Bango, 
the Luinha, etc. ; fl. June 1856. No. 5429. No notes; fl. No. 5466. 
A tree of 20 to 25 ft., with yellow flowers and textile inner bark. At 
Bango ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. Cou. Carp. 751. A tree of 15 to 20 ft., 
with very tenacious inner bark, intensely yellow-tawny flowers, and 
the ripe capsules turning yellow. At Bango; fr. Sept. 1855. Coun. 
Carp. 752. Native name “ Quibosa ia muchito.” 
This is apparently one of the species of Cordia referred to by 
Welwitsch, Synopse Explic., p. 15, n. 35 (1862), under the native 
name of “ Quibosa 14 mugito,” as trees of low elevation growing in the 
dense forests of this district ; he states that the inner bark is frequently 
utilised for making ropes ; and on account of its great durability it 
is highly valued by the natives. See also Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 225. 
No. 5457 from PuNGO ANDONGO, without notes, is a poor specimen 
in flower ; it should be compared with C. aurantiaca. 
The following No. belongs apparently to an undescribed species 
of Cordia :— 
A small tree with a lax head, 9 ft. high or a little more; 
branchlets somewhat angular and tawny, leafy, tomentose towards 
the tips ; leaves broadly and irregularly oval or somewhat rhom- 
