Siphonanthm] xcvi. veubenace.k. 847 



in company with Paiadin (inih/fti Jaub. i^- Spach (Welw. herb, 

 no. :}914) and Durania ercrta L. (Welw. lierb. no. :,H\0). No. 5763. 



This belongs to the section Cyclonema and comes near to N. (Cyrlo- 

 nema) d/scvlur (Kl.) and to iS. {Clcrwli tulnni) Siuiuni/iri (Vatke). 



S. AVICENNIA L. Syst. Nat., edit. 1 (1735) ; Sp. PI., edit. 1, 

 p. 110 (M;iy 1753); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. IIGO. 



liontia P. Br. Hist. Jam. p. 2G3 (1756) ; L. Sy.st. Nat., edit. 10, 

 part ii., p. 1122 (1759); non L. (1735 and 1753). 



1. A. nitida Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. Hi.st. p. 177, t. 112, f. 1 

 (17G3); L. Gen. PI., edit. G, p. 579 (17G4). 



Bontia (jerminans L. 8p. PI., edit 2, p. 891 (17G2), ])artlv. 

 A. africana P. Beauv. Fl. Ow. i. p. 80, t. 47 (180G?) ; Benth. in 

 Hook. Niger Fl. p. 487 (1849) ; Welw. in Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii. 

 p. 328 (1854). 



Amuuiz. — Sometimes a great tree. Loge river : fl. and fr. Xov. 

 1853. No. 5726. 



LoANDA. — At Zamba grande ; fl. March 1854. No. 5641. A much- 

 branched little tree, (> to 10 ft. high. At Praia da Zamba grande ; 

 fl. July 1858. No. 5709. Also near Maianga do Rei, with erect 

 asparagus-like radical shoots, on sand-banks, 2G Oct. ]85.'{. A single 

 tree, about 2.') ft. high : at the right bank near the mouth of the river 

 Bengo, Nov. 18.'.3. A shrub of 5 to K ft., Avith milk-white flowers ; on 

 the coast of the island of Loanda, fl. and fr., Oct. 1853, in company 

 with Rhi~oj>liora MaiKjlc L. The seeds germinate within the pericarps : 

 cotyledons very broad, conduplicate, bilobed at the base ; plumule 

 .seated on a scape. 



The Lichen n. a.jo at Maiango do Povo. in Loanda, Feb. 1854, grew 

 on the Avireinild ; also Lichen n. 410 at Zamba grande, Dec. 1858. 



The following is a very doubtful member of Verbenacea} ; the 

 short account of the fruit is taken from Welwitsch's ms. : — 



A handsome tree, 40 to 80 ft. high ; bark strongly cracked ; 

 branches erect-spreading, terete, dusky-ashy, lenticellate, glabrous ; 

 young shoots shortly puberulous, leafy ; leaves opposite and 

 subalternate, simple, exstii)ulate, oval or oblong, witli a some- 

 what fraiigulaceous habit, rounded or obtuse at both ends and 

 often mucronnlate at the apex, thinly coriaceous or firmly- 

 membranous, minutely glandular on both faces, dark green and 

 glabrate or more or less ligured with patches of scaly puberulence 

 above, paler or browner and often shortly pubescent by the sides 

 of the midrib and lateral veins beneath, evergreen, entire or 

 wavy-repand on the very narrowly revolute glabrous margin, 

 2 to 4 in. long ])y |^ to 2 in. broad ; lateral veins about 8 on each 

 side of the midrib,*rather slender, erect-patent, sub-parallel ; net- 

 veins also sub-parallel, delicate ; petiole '^ to r in. long, articulate 

 at the base, glabrate or shortly puberulous ; fruit small, edible, 

 called by the negroes " Mungingi." 



LiBONco. — In a cultivated tamarind plantation, in Banzade Libongo ; 

 only one tree : without fl. or fr. 19 to 22 Sept. 1858. No. 6737. 



GoLUNdo Ai/ro.— Leafy branch ; without fl. or fr. No. 6737&. 



The plant called "Mungiugue" in Huilla is Fadixjia Cieiikoicskit 

 Schweinf.. ante, p. 481. 



