Onciv(jtis\ Lxxxir. APorvxAf e.e. 675 



at a very wide angle, terminating at the apex in an incurved acumen. 

 In secondary woods at the banks of the river Coango ; fr. June 1856. 

 No. 6014. A sarmentose, apparently climbing shrub : leaves ovate- 

 oblong or elliptical ; flowers yellow : corolla-throat corniculate with 

 erect connivent scales. Behind Rodrigo's house ; seeds Oct. 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 724. 



Ami;aca. — An arborescent, scandent. lactescent shrub ; adult stems 

 blackish purple ; branches virgate ; fibre very slender : loaves thinly 

 coriace(jus, yellow-greenish l)eneatli : ilowers yellow. In thickets near 

 Izanga and Cabinda ; without either fl. or fr. Oct. IHoG. No. 5959. 



16. BAISSEA Alph. DC. ; Benth. t Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 719. 

 Fermerion Baill. in Bull. See. Linn. Paris, i. p. 758 (1888). 



1. B. angolensis Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 126, excl. var.; 

 Hua in Bull. 8oe. Linn. Paris, n.s., p. 10 (1898). 



Goi.rNGo Alto.— A very elegant, weak, widely climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets usually 4 to 7 fit. long, pendulous ; flowers very crowded, 

 sweetly aromatic, purplish or whitish-rosy, resembling those of a 

 jessamine, ornamental. By thickets on slopes along the river Cuango, 

 rather rare, fl. March 1856 ; also in dense thickets on the right bank 

 of the same river near the residence of Senhor Rodrigo ; fl. beginning 

 of May 1855. No. 5967. 



2. B. major. 



B. angolensis var. major Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 126. 



PuNirO Andoxco. — -A robust, lactescent shrub, occasionally arbor- 

 escent ; branches virgate, sarmentose, scandent, the younger ones 

 rufous-tomentose, leaves evergreen, coriaceous, rather shining, yellowish 

 green beneath, with arching veins ; flowers white, fragrant, jessamine- 

 like : young follicles linear, acuminate, geminate. In moist thickets 

 at the sides of the rocks of the praisidium ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 5966. 



3. B. Welwitschii Stapf ms. in Herb. Kew. 



Perinerion Welwitschii Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. p. 758 

 (1888) ; K. Sebum, in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 174 (1895). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A copiously lactescent shrub, climbing high and 

 widely ; milk somewhat blue ; branches green, tortuous, cylindrical, 

 very tenacious ; branches sub-opposite, slender ; calyx 5-partite ; the 

 segments imbricate, obtuse ; corolla salver-shaped, sordid-white ; the 

 tube turbinate, shorter than the lobes of the limb, slightly inflated 

 at the base, beset inside with an obsolete ring and 5 fascicles of hairs 

 directed downwards, outside shining, glabrous ; the limb 5-cleft ; 

 the lobes lanceolate, obtuse, whitish, rather concave, siuistror.sely a 

 little contorted in asstivation (as seen from above), spreading in full 

 flower ; throat wide, purple-striate from the mouth to the middle 

 of the tube ; stamens 5, inserted a little above the base of the corolla- 

 tube, included : filaments short, a little bearded ; anthers sagittate, 

 bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally, connivent in a pyramidal manner 

 around the stigma and closely adhering to it ; ovary sessile, sub-bilobed, 

 bilocular, the cells with many ovules : style central, turbinate : stigma 

 ovoid-conical, rather obtuse ; hypogynous disk or glands 0. At the 

 outskirts of primitive forests among the mountains of Alto Queta, 

 rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1856. No. 5932. 



