714 Lxxxvi. BOEAGiNE.E. [Cordia 



5. C. longipes Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 27. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A strong tree, 20 to 30 ft. high ; branches patent, 

 as well as the branchlets and leaves sometimes scattered, sometimes 

 ternate ; leaves very large, deciduous, very rough above, discolorous ; 

 calyx tubular, densely lepidote-tomentose outside, bursting at the 

 apex into 2 to 4 very unequal teeth, obscurely 10- to 12-furrowed ; 

 corolla sulphur in colour ; the tube exceeding the calyx ; the limb 

 rotate, 5- to 7-cleft ; the lobes soon reflected, obovate or oblong ; 

 stamens 5 or 6, inserted at the corolla-throat, alternate with the 

 lobes of the limb ; ovary ovoid-conical, acuminate at the apex, 

 alternate at the apex into the style ; style bipartite almost to the 

 base, the branches bifid to the middle, the branchlets thickened 

 upwards and stigmatose ; fruit drupaceous, grape-shaped, an inch long, 

 yellowish, ovoid-conical, mucronate at the apex, seated on the hardened 

 ashy cupuliform calyx. In primaeval forests among the mountains of 

 Sobato de Bumba, etc. ; in late fl., 19 Nov. 1855. No. 5428. Flowers 

 from whitish to yellowish ; fruit grape-shaped, yellow. At Undelle ; 

 fl.-bud, Feb. 1856. No. 5432. A tree of 20 to 25 ft. or usually a 

 small tree of 6 to 10 ft.; flowers yellow ; drupes like a cherry in size 

 and shape, sulphur-coloured, very viscid with a dense mucus, turgid, 

 monopyrenous by abortion ; seeds 2 or 3. In secondary woods near 

 Sange ; ripe fr. July 1857. Perhaps this species. Coll. Cakp. 764. 



The following No., represented by a leafy shoot, should be 

 compared with this species : — 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A moderate-sized tree, with the habit almost of 

 a Ficus, a dilated head, and spreading branches. In the forest at 

 N-delle ; without either fl. or fr. June 1855. No. 5456- 



6. C. abyssinica R. Br. in Salt Abyss. App. iv. p. Ixiv (1814), 

 name with reference; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p, 80 (1851). 



Varronia abyssinica DC. Prodr. ix. p. 469 (1845). 



Var. j8. acutifolia A. Rich., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A lofty tree, very ornamental in flower ; trunk 

 2 to 2| ft. in diameter at its base, usually ascending ; flowers white ; 

 calyx 10-ribbed, normally and unequally bursting at the apex ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, very thin in texture, the limb somewhat 5-lobed, lobes 

 obcordate ; stamens 5, inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments from a broad base filiform above, bearded at the middle 

 with hyaline pilose hairs ; anthers incumbent, oblong-cordate, 2-ceUed, 

 the cells laterally dehiscent ; ovary free, surrounded with a tender 

 cupuliform membrane ; ovules few ; style elongated, bilobed above 

 the middle, the branches again divided, so that there are 4 ligulate 

 stigmas. At the banks of the river Quiapoze, rather rare ; fl. 17 May 

 1855. No. 5433. 



The two following Nos., represented by leafy shoots or foliage 

 only, should be compared with this species and also with the 

 Kilimanjaro plant C. Holstii Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, 

 p. 335, t. 41 (1895). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small tree with the habit almost of Pcqiyrim 

 Jajjonica Poir., one of the plants called by the natives " Quibosa 

 Camuchito," that is, " Quibosa of the woods," a name which is applied 

 to various trees, shrubs, and even herbs, that serve for the manufacture 

 of ropes. Ban9a do Sobato de Quilombo ; without fl. or fr, Jan. 1855. 



