538 Lxxi. COMPOSIT.E. [Vernania 



Cazengo. — A tree, usually from 15 to 20 ft. high, occasionally 

 higher ; the young stem simple, crowned at the apex with a head of 

 very large leaves ; the older stem sparingly branched, with thick 

 elongated distantly-leafy branches ; panicles terminal, white-flowered, 

 Ih to 2J ft. long ; capitula subsessile, arranged in dense rows along 

 the branches of the panicle. In the more elevated primitive forests 

 of Serra de Muxaula ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 3259. 



GoLUNGc^ Alto. — A tree, 20 to 25 ft., even 35 ft., with a trunk 5 to 

 10 in. in diameter at the base, sparingly and thinly branched ; bark 

 whitish or grey ; head lax ; branches elongated, arched upwards, 

 sparingly twiggy, subterete, tomentose when young ; the young trees 

 simple, crowned with a palm-like head of gigantic fasciculate leaves 

 resembling an immense cabbage ; leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, very 

 large, ranging up to 2 and 4 ft. long by 1 and If ft. broad, sinuate-lobed, 

 rigid, with thick nerves, fasciculate at the apex of the branches and 

 branchlets ; capitula homogamous, obconical, rather small, arranged in 

 racemose pyramidal panicles 1 to 2 ft. long, 15- to 20-flowered ; in- 

 volucral bracts pluriseriate, loosely imbricate, rigid, pubescent, the 

 outer ones very short, rather thick, spreading, rather obtuse ; the inner 

 ones elongated, erect, oblong-linear, shortly acuminate ; corolla 

 whitish with 5 equal ovate-lanceolate lobes much shorter than the 

 long tube and with the throat scarcely or but little widened ; anthers 

 exserted, appendiculate at the apex, acutely sagittate-caudate at the 

 base ; stigmas rather long, obtusely subulate, far exserted, recurved, 

 inflected or spirally twisted outwards, hispidulous or pubescent all 

 round ; achenes obconic-cylindrical, subcom pressed, marked with a 

 few ribs, glabrous or nearly so, truncate at the apex, with a callus at 

 the base a little narrower than the achene and much shorter ; pappus 

 uniseriate, many times longer than the achene ; the setaj crowded, 

 nearly as long as the corolla, equal among themselves, slender, rather 

 rigid, very densely, very delicately serrulate-setulose, whitish; 

 receptacle elevated, areolate. In the primitive forests among the 

 mountains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. July and Aug. 1855, fr. Sept. 

 1855, sporadic. Native name " Quipuculo cafele " (small Quipuculo), 

 or " Quipucolo." No. 3259b. A very beautiful tree of moderate size, 

 in youth resembling a palm, from a long distance much like in 

 habit Anthocleista iiohllis G. Don (which is also called " Quipucalo ") ; 

 trunk 6 to 10 in. in diameter ; branches and leaves, etc., clothed with 

 a more or less rufous tomentum ; flowers whitish, arranged in gigantic 

 terminal ovoid-pyramidal panicles. In the elevated forests of Sobato 

 Quilombo and Bumba ; fl. May and Dec. No. 3269. A tree, 15 to 

 20 ft. high ; trunk straight, sparingly branched, when young resembling 

 a palm with its broad unlobed leaves 2 to 2h ft. long by 4 to 6 in. 

 broad ; flowers whitish, pyramidal-paniculate. In the elevated primitive 

 forests not uncommonly attaining 25 or 30 ft. in height ; fr. July 1857. 

 Coll. Carp. 685. 



According to a note of Welwitsch, the trunk of this tree attains 

 a foot in diameter, but only so thick in the primitive forests on the 

 farther side of the river Zenza. Another native name is " N-tende.'' 

 It occurs also in the district of Dembos ; see Welw. Synopse Explic. 

 p. 10. n. 17 (1862). 



47. V. Thomsoniana 0. & H. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. See. xxix. 

 p. 91 (1873) and in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 295 ; O. Hofim. in 

 Eel. See. Brot. xiii. p. 16 (1896). 



Ambaca. — A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, with whitish flowers verging on 



