672 Lxxxii. APOCYNACE^. \J<trofhantlm.8 



at the base as thick as the middle finger, cylindrical-subulate, unisulcate 

 beneath, geminate at a very wide angle when not quite ripe. In low 

 forests between Cazella and Luxillo, sparingly"; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 

 5936. An evergreen, twining, resinous-milky shrub : bark verrucose ; 

 leaves coriaceous, deep green and rather shining above, whitish be- 

 neath ; corolla handsome, dilated-campanulate, white ; segments of 

 the limb rosy, without tails at the apex, reflected at the time of the 

 open flower ; ligules of the throat 10, linear-lanceolate, deep purple : 

 stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, included ; anthers sagittate, 

 aristate at the apex, pyramidately surrounding the P/^oZ/^.s-shaped 

 stigma in the excavation at its insertion on the style, follicles divaricate, 

 3 to 4^ in. long, rather obtusely subulate, obtusely angular at the base, 

 subcompressed-bisulcate at the apex. In wooded thickets between the 

 prassidium and the river Cuanza, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. 16 Nov. 

 1856. No. 5991. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, as tall as a man ; branches at length elongated, 

 climbing ; bark minutely white-tuberculate ; flowers campanulate, 

 whitish, rosy inside on corolla-tube and ligules ; corolla-lobes not 

 appendaged at the apex, but bi-ligulate about the throat inside : 

 follicles elongate-conical, tuberculate. In Morro de Lopollo fl. Dec. 

 1859. No. 5990. An evergreen, very beautiful, arborescent shrub or 

 small tree of 5 to 7 ft. ; branches sarmentose ; corolla whitish-rosy, 

 variegated with purple on the throat and ligules, the segments of the 

 limb scarcely caudate. In the forests of Cordicheira, Lopollo ; fr. Jan. 

 and May 1860. Coll. Carp. 22. Without locality or notes. Coll. 

 Cakp. 1117. 



12. MOTANDRA Alph. DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 715. 



1. M. guineensis Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 423 (1844). 



Echites f/uineensis Thonn. ex Sebum, in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 

 iii. p. 169 (1828). E. 2y(inicidata Thonn. ex Alph. DC, I.e., non 

 Poir. nee Roxb. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing far and high, more or 

 less lactescent ; branchlets rufous-tomentose ; leaves closely resembling 

 those of a beech, deep green, chartaceous-herbaceous, glossy, almost 

 glabrous, somewhat pilose along the midrib and at the axils of the 

 lateral nerves ; flowers moderately abundant ; corolla whitish, quickly 

 withering, salver-shaped ; the lobes of the limb spreading at the time 

 of the open flower, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse ; corolla-tube naked 

 within, inflated at the base : stamens 5, inserted at the base of the 

 tube ; filaments rather thick, curved inwards ; anthers sagittate, 

 closely adpressed to the stigma, comose at the apex ; hypogynous 

 glands 5, sordid-yellow, erect, flattened, truncate at tlie apex, lamelli- 

 form ; style seated on the hollowed apex of the ovary ovoid-fusiform 

 bifid at the apex and stigmatose nearly throughout (or the style short, 

 with a fusiform stigma bifid at the apex) ; ovary 2-celled, the cells 

 with many ovules. In thickets by the Ambaca road near Ponte de 

 Luiz Simoes (a very milky state of the plant) ; fl. end of Oct. 1855. 

 Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. and fr. 22 Oct. 1854 ; on the highest ridges 

 of the forests of Alto Queta (a sparing milky state) ; fl. beginning 

 of Nov. 1855. No. 5964. A very lactescent and extensively scandent 

 shrub ; leaves opposite, smooth ; flowers paniculate, white ; near 

 Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. and fallen fr. Oct. 1854. Seeds only, per- 

 liaps belonging to this species. Coll. Carp. 723. 



Coll. Carp. 1118, consisting of follicles about 6 in. long shortly 



