Acali/pha] cxv. euphorbiace^:. 979 



GoLUNGO Ai,To. — In neglected plots of cultivation tbrouwhout the 

 district, plentiful, especially near Sange and Camilungo ; tl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1855. No. 419. 



PcNcio Andknco. — In a kitchen garden in the prasidium : 11. and 

 fr. end of Jan. 1H57. No. 418. 



12. A. segetalis ]\Iuell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 3.jG, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 877. 



Ricinocarpus segetalis O. Kuut/.e, I.e., p. G18. 



C.oi.rNUd Ai/i'o. — In somewhat shady places among low herbs at 

 the banks of the river Cuango near Sange ; H. Juno 185G. No. 440. 

 In neglected fields after crops of Arnclns hypogmi L., near Sange, 

 only one specimen ; H. aad fr. Sept. 18.55. No. 389. Among crops 

 of Antchlt^ hypoijoia L., plentiful, especially near Camilungo ; fl. and f r. 

 Jan., March, and May 1855. No. 416. 



Amh.vca. — An annual herb : the principal stem erect, the lower 

 ones ascending. Among plantations of Phaseolns and Arachis hypngftn 

 L., nearly throughout the district; near Ambaca, fl. and fr. Sept. IS.'iG. 

 No. 4166. 



2G. ALCHORNEA Swartz; 13enth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 314. 



1. A. floribunda :Muell. arg. in Flora, 1864, p. 435, and in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. -1, p. 9U5 (18G6). 



p, glabrata Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 336 (1864), and 

 in DC, I.e. 



PuNGo Andongo. — A shrub, 7 to 9 ft. high, perhaps arborescent ; 

 stem and branches elongated, slender, purple ; male and female flowers 

 very bright red-scarlet ; style elongated, erect : capsules 3- or rarely 

 4-coccous. In the dense forest close to the cataract of Mata de 

 Cabondo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 352. 



2. A. cordata Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 507 (1849); non 

 Muell. arg. (1866). 



Schottsbcea cordifolia Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Yiden.sk. 

 Selsk. iv. p. 223 (1829). A. cordifolia Muell. arg. in Linnasa, 

 xxxiv. p. 170 (1865), and in DC, I.e., p. 908 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 257 (1884). 



GoF.fNGO Ai.To. — An arborescent shrub 8 to 12 ft. high or a small 

 tree of 10 to 15 ft., sometimes standing erect, in other cases subscandent 

 with long virgate sarmentose branches ; leaves coriaceous, shining, 

 glandular at the base of the nerves ; flowers dioecious, paniculate, 

 yellowisb ; panicles mostly springing from the trunk or older branches, 

 drooping-pendulous ; fruit elongated-didymous : seeds wrapped in a 

 scarlet arillode. In damp places by wooded thickets and close to 

 streams throughout the district, plentiful ; at the rivulet Quiapoze 

 near Sange ; nearly ripe fr. end of Nov. 1855, and female fl. Sept. 185G ; 

 about Sange and JBango, fl. and fr. Aug. and Oct. 1855 and Aug. 185G ; 

 Terras de Bumba, fl. beginning of Aug. 185G. Native name " Dunce " 

 or " Bunce." A black dye is prepared by the negroes by baking this 

 plant mixed with the mud of a stream. No. 379. The Lichen n. 2G1 

 grew on the leaves of this plant at the stream Quiapoze near Sange 

 m March 1855. 



Puince's INLAND. — A shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high, with numerous stems 

 at the base. In sandy seaside thickets near Bahia de S. Antonio ; 

 unripe fr. Sept. 1853. No. 378. 



