irdleria\ cm. riiYTOLACcACE.ic. 901 



Lam. Jlncvcl. Meth. vi. p. 215 (1804). R. sccunda Ruiz k Pav. 

 Fl. Per. i.'p. Go. t. 102, li^'. a (179S). A'. laiuwAala Will.l. Enmii. 

 llort. Berol. Suppl. p. 8 (181:5). /,'. acmnitiata H. B. S: K. Nov. 

 Gen. ii. p. 184 (1817). Ji. affinis Necs & Mart, in Nov. Act. Nat. 

 Cur. xi. p. 30 (1823). A', apetala Schuna. & Thonn. in Dan.ske 

 Vid. 8elsk. iii. p. 104 (1828). Mohlaim nemwalis iNIart., I.e., 

 p. 171. J/, secimda Mart., Z.c, p. 172. R.infiqualis Uook. Ic. 

 PI. ii. t. 130 (1837). M. guineensis Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 

 p. 15 (1849); Welw. Apontam. p. 558, sub n. 134 (1859). 

 M. latifolia Moq., I.e., p. IG. Ilillera secmula O. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 551 (1891). 



Goi.UNco Alto. — An undershrub, 1 to 3 ft. high, woody at the 

 base ; leaves dull green above, pallid beneath, repand-crenate ; the 

 young stem somewhat angular, becoming when older almost cylindrical 

 and wood}' ; petioles decurreut on the young stem in two hairy lines ; 

 calyx 4-cleft, petaloid and whitish rosy when young and during the 

 Howering, turning green and somewhat fleshy as the fruit ripens, 

 bilabiate, three of the segments representing the lower lip and the 

 fourth one the upper. In the primitive forest close to the banks of 

 the river Cuango, in Sobato de Mussengue, about Sange. plentiful : 

 H. and young fr., Dec. 1H54. No. 2440. In very shady places at the 

 cataracts of the river Cuango and by streams in I\Iata de Quibanga, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1855. No. 2440^. 



2. PHYTOLACCA Tournef., L. ; Bentb. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 



p. 84. 



1. P. dodecandra L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. p. 143. t. 69 (1789). 



P. abysainica lloffni. in Comm. Getting, xii. jd. 25. t. 2 (1796). 

 Pircunia ahyssinica Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 30 (1849); 

 A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 222 (1851). Pirc. saponacea Welw. 

 Apontam. p. 558, sub n. 134 (1859); Cat. Sect. Portug. Expos. 

 Univers. Paris, p. 451. n. 12 (1867). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — An undershrub, climbing high, with white- 

 yellowish flowers and scarlet fruits. In tall thickets near Trombeta, 

 fl. Sept. 1854, the var. Idtifulin A. Rich., \.c. ; in thin forests among 

 the Serra do Alto Queta mountains ; fl. and fr. March l)-!55. No. 2438. 

 A shrub, climbing far and wide ; Ijranches long-sarmentose ; leaves 

 subglaucous, somewhat fleshy ; flowers pale sulphur in colour, 

 arranged in long spikelike racemes ; berries scarlet ; fl. and fr. Mav 

 1855. Coix. Caki'. 861. 



PrNco Andonco. — A shrub, but little woody, climbing to tlie 

 height of 10 to 30 ft., not twining ; leaves herbaceous, glaucous-green : 

 flowers white : fruits scarlet. In rocky wooded places between Caghuy 

 and MutoUo, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Nov. lH5t!. No. 2439. 



The negi'oes call this plant " Mutonga-Tonga," and they use the 

 leaves, when boiled or pounded, instead of soap for washing clothes, 

 but it is inferior to '' Jindondolo," Solanuiii alhifnlium Wright, <inli', 

 p. 747. See Welwitsch, l.r. In the Paris catalogue. I.e., the plant is 

 placed among the medicinal specimens from Cazengo ; in the same 

 catalogue, p. 456, n. 63, " Mutonga-tonga," bark and leaves from the 

 district of Duque de Braganc^a, is said to be employed in dropsies and 

 in cases of retention of urine, and to be a drastic purgative : Welwitsch 

 also noted that it is drastic in small quantities. 



