JVuxia] Lxxxiv. loganiacE/E. 701 



PiTNCo Anuoxgo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; branches spreading, 

 tortuous ; leaves coriaceous ; flowers white. In wooded places at the 

 river Tangue, sporadic ; fl. end of May 1857. No. 5678- 



Grows also among the high mountains of Dembos : its wood has a 

 very fine grain, white, and compact, and is well adapted for turnery ; 

 the tree however is not very plentiful, and occurs in stations difficult of 

 access. (See Welwitsch, Synopse ExpHc. p. 8, n. 8.) 



3. BUDDLEJA Houst. ex L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pi. ii. 

 p. 793 {Bnddfia). 



]. B. madagascariensis Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 513 {Ikulleia) 

 (1783); Melliss, St. Helena, p. 298 (1875). 



Island of St. Hklkna. — A slender, climbing shrub, with the habit 

 almost of Verbenacete, but with the structure rather of Scrophulariaceaj ; 

 branches and branchlets branny-feltcd, whitish-floccose ; flowers herma- 

 phrodite, deep orange in colour ; calyx tubular-campanulatc, quadri- 

 dentate at the mouth ; corolla-tube straight, somewhat salver-shaped, 

 exceeding the calyx, shaggy within ; the limb 4- or very rarely 5-cleft, 

 with obovate-oblong lobes spreading horizontally ; stamens 4, inserted 

 in the sinuses alternate to the corolla-lobes : anthers scarcely protruded 

 beyond the corolla- tube, erect, bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 ovary ovoid, free ; placentation central, multi-ovulate ; style solitary 

 filiform, terminating in a thick oblong-spathulate rather viscid stigma, 

 falling a little short of the anther-tips ; filaments very short or almost 

 obsolete. Cultivated at Loanda in the garden of Senbor Gabriel ; 

 tl. Sept. 1858. No. 4762. 



4. ANTHOCLEISTA Afzel. ; Benth. t Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 795. 



1. A. macrantha Gilg in Engl Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 57-8 (1893). 



A. nohills Welw. Apontam. p. 549, nnder n. 90 (1859) ; perhap.s 

 not of G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 68 (1837). A. Voqelii Ficalho, 

 PI. Uteis, p. 223 (1884) ; perhap.s not of Piancli. in Hook. Ic. PI. 

 t. 793-4 (1848). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A tree, in habit resembhng in its youth an elegant 

 palm, repeatedly and dichotomously branched, attaining in the primitive 

 forests a height of 50 ft., and bearing at the extremities of its branchlets 

 tufts of gigantic leaves, from the centre of which proceeds the flowering 

 corymb of 3 ft. or even longer : flowers handsome : corolla pale sulphur 

 in colour, fleshy-coriaceous, brittle, thrown off in a few hours or usually 

 within a quarter of an hour after its complete expansion from the 

 investing calyx, quickly rotting after its fall ; the limb 13- to 15-cleft, 

 the lobes contorted in aestivation, spreading in a rotate manner when 

 fully expanded ; stamens equal in number to the corolla-lobes ; capsule 

 as large as a small walnut. In the primitive forests of the Sobatos of 

 Quilombo, Bumba, and Queta ; in the secondary woods the trees are 

 lower, 20 to 25 ft. high, with broader foliage ; fl. and young fr. March 

 1856 ; fl. March and April 185G ; a young tree, without fl. or fr. July 

 185(). Native name " Quipuculo-puculo." No. 6021 and Coi.i,. Caki'. 

 741. Sobato Quilombo, young foliage, Feb. 1855. No. 6021 />. 



PcNGO Am)i)N(;(). — In damp forests at the Imnksof the river Lombe ; 

 a tree-like shrub or young tree, without fl. or fr. March 1857. No. 6022. 



This tree, with its very peculiar habii, abounds in the woods of the 

 mountainous region, and forms one of the chief features of the virgin 

 forest. 



