Jasmiuum] Lxxx. oleace.*:. 055 



PuNGo Andongo. — A shrub, climbing high and very widely ; leaves 

 subcoriaceous, but little shining ; flowers very agreeably fragrant, 

 white, present during nearly the whole year ; corolla-hmb 7- to *J-cleft. 

 In wooded rocky thickets at the outskirts of forests near the praj- 

 sidium ; fl. middle of Dec. ISoC. No. 927- 



The distinction between the two species here brought together, 

 which is alleged to exist in the comparative length of the caly.x-tube 

 with its lobes, does not always hold good. Both are very closely 

 related to ,/. paiu-jjlovun, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 443 (1849), 

 perhaps too closely for specific separation. 



4. J. longipes Baker, I.e. {longpipes). 



(toi.ungo Alto. — A slender shrub, climbing widely, with long 

 sarmentose branches ; flowers slightly fragrant, red-purple outside, 

 milkwhite inside ; in bushy places at the outskirts of the primitive 

 forests of Alto Queta, about Sange, plentiful : fl. end of Dec. 1855. 

 A shrublet with subscandent sarmentose branches and flowers (judgmg 

 from the buds) apparently whitish ; in Sobato de Bumba at tbe river 

 Gate, only one specimen, in unopened fl. Dec. 1854. No. 925. 



5. J. angolense Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 95. 



LoANDA. — A shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, altogether erect (or in one case 

 only a sarmentose branch was seen), with numerous stems much 

 branched from a woody rootstock ; very beautiful by reason of the 

 plentiful two-coloured flowers ; leaves simple, thinly fleshy, scarcely 

 coriaceous, bright and deep green ; flowers comparatively large, very 

 crowded ; corolla milkwhite inside, purplish or usually deep purple 

 outside. On sandy rather dry hilly spaces by scattered bushes of 

 Jfariia aiigoIniKis DC. above Loanda, nt)t seen elsewhere, plentiful ; 

 fl. and fr. Feb. and April 1854. No. 924. An erect shrub, 3 to 4 ft. 

 high ; branches twisted ; flowers scarcely at all fragrant, violet-red 

 outside, snow-white inside ; style elongated, with an oblong somewhat 

 bilobed stigma. In bu.shy places ; fl. Nov. 1853 and March 1854. A 

 form with leaves more acuminate than in the type and growing in 

 company with it. No. 924^. 



6. J. mauritianum Boj. Hort. Maurit. p. 204 (1837); DC. 

 Prodr. viii. p. 310 (1844). 



J. tettense Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. (i.), p. 284 (1861) ; 

 Henriques, Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 139 (1892). 



Loanda. — A high-climbing shrub ; leaves compound ; veins of the 

 leaflets constantly bearded in their lower axils ; flowers very fragrant, 

 with the aroma nearly of ./. tiamhac Ait. In thickets and in plantations 

 of Addusoniu (ligitata B. Juss., tolerably frequent but not penetrating 

 into the interior of the country ; fl. and fr. from Feb. to May 1854. 

 No. 923. 



MossAMEnES. — Flowers white, strongly and very sweetly fragrant. 

 In dry places among shrubs near the river Giraul, very sparingly ; fl. 

 July 1859. No. 930. 



HuiLi.A. — Flowers white, fragrant. In bushy rocky places between 

 Mumpulla and Nene, sporadic ; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 931. 



7. J, mossamedense Hiern, sp. n. 



A handsome, glabrous, rather shining shrub, 8 to 12 ft. high, 

 virgately branched from the base ; stems numerous, erect, sub- 

 terete ; branchlets elongated, weak, slender, nodding, obtusely 



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