Siphonaathuii\ xcvi. yerbenacej:. 8-tl 



liracts varying,' from ovate or obovate to narrowly flliptical, very 

 afute, liairy at tlie l)ark, ciliate, ' to 1 in. long, veiny ; calyx ; in. 

 lung, deeply 5- or 4-lobe(l, the lobe.s ovate, very acute, resembling 

 the bract.s in sub.stance and liairine.^s ; corolla-tube slender, liairy 

 outside, about 2 in. long or rather more; the limb about .', in. 

 in diameter ; the lobes 5, obtuse, imbricate in aestivation ; stamens 

 didynamous ; filaments spiral in a>stivation, in flower straight and 

 ex.serted by ij' or 1 in., nearly glabrous, slender; style ex.serted 

 bv more than an inch, nearly gla])rous, slender. 



Pi Nco Anhonco. — In secondary wooded thickets by the river 

 Caghuy between Caghuy and tlie river Cuanza ; fl. middle of Jan. 

 ISO 7. No. 5685. 



5. S. cuneifolia. 



Clerodendron cunei/oliuni Baker ms. in llerj). 

 Flowering branchlets obtusely quadrangular, pallid, clothed 

 with short curly hairs mixed with some long jointed ones ; inter- 

 nodes shorter than the leaves, not or scarcely thickened ; leaves 

 opposite, erect-patent, obovate. narrowly and abruptly cuspidate 

 at the apex, narrowed towards the often obtuse trinerved base, 

 membranous, deep green and adpressedly hairy above, pallid and 

 hairy at least along the midrib and principal veins beneath, 

 irregulai-ly toothed along the upper part below^ the cusp, entire 

 below, 27V to 3^ in. long by 1^ to 1^ in. broad; lateral veins 

 about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, erect-patent ; petiole 

 }r to }, in. long, hairy, often bent at one or both ends, the base 

 thickening; flowers crowded in dense subsessile terminal hemi- 

 spherical abbreviated cymes or heads ; bracts elliptical, acute at 

 both ends, about l in. long ; calyx deeply lobed, -f. in. long ; the 

 lobes elliptical, acute, ciliate, veiny, nearly }. in. long; corolla- 

 tube slender, 1 ^ to 2 in. long, thinly pubescent ; the limb about 

 .'. in. in diameter; filaments and style exserted. 



PuN(i() Andongo. — No precise locality ; in fl. Xo. 5684. 



This closely resembles the last species, but the shape of tlie leaves is 

 different. 



6. S. splendens. 



Clerodendron sjyieudens d. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xi. p. 349 

 (1824). 



Zf.nza D(» Gounco. — In wooded places at the Mongolo river, 

 Muxao ; fl. Sept. isr)4. No. 5664. 



GoLiNco Ar.TO. — On rocks and in bushy places between Cacarambola 

 and Cambondo ; fl. beginning of Feb. 1H55. No. 5646. A shrub, 4 to 

 5 ft. high, climbing with divaricate branches ; leaves softly coriaceous, 

 bullate-rugose ; flowers very plea.santly flesh-coloured to reddish. In 

 the Alto Queta secondary thickets, rather rare ; H. beginning of August 

 18r>t"i. No. 5740. A shrub with splendid purple flowers ; capsules 

 shining, black ; endocarp orange in colour. From Calelo to Cami- 

 lungo, plentiful. At Sange : fr. Sept. 1K55. Apparently this species. 

 Coll. Caki'. 8.50. 



Var. ? Bakeri. 



Scandent ; leaves villo.se-tomentose, cordiform, ranging up to 



