Cordia] Lxxxvi. bokaoink.k. 715- 



No. 4791. Leaves of the young branch of the tree from which flowers 

 had been previously gathered. Roadway near Mussengue, at the foot 

 of the saltpetre cavern, Jan. 185G. No. 5462. 



7. C. aurantiaca B.nker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 26. 



GoLUNCo Ai/ro. — An evergreen, much branched tree, 20 to 25 ft. 

 high ; inner bark very tenacious, textile ; leaves rather fleshy,, 

 subcoriaceous ; inflorescence ebracteolate ; calyx dusky-tomentose, 

 ribbed with 10 folds of which 5 are strongly prominent, tubular, but 

 little cleft at the apex, deeply crenate ; corolla saffron-yellow, salver- 

 shaped, embracing the germen at the bottom of the calyx about the 

 base ; the tube ribbed : the limb 5- or almost oftener O-cleft ; the 

 lobes oblong, pervaded with ;5 thick folds, more or less undulate at 

 the margin, produced at the apex into a subulate pilose appendage,, 

 convolute-plicate in asstivation, patent in flower, soon reflected ; 

 stamens 5 or (>, inserted a little below the corolla-throat, exserted ; 

 anthers cordate-oblong, dorsifi.xed, introrse, 2-celled, longitudinally 

 dehiscing ; ovary globose, free, subsessile, smooth ; style-branches 

 bifurcate ; stigmas 4, green, peltate-capitate, exserted ; drupe baccate, 

 monopyrenous, mostly 2-celled ; putamen rather bony ; seeds solitary. 

 In the less dense forests and at the banks of rivulets, near 

 Bango, Menha-Lula, etc., not plentiful ; fl. Dec. l8o4 and July 1855 

 No. 5430. A tree of 15 to 20 ft. with its trunk 6 to 9 in. in diameter 

 at the base (about the negro villages it is usually only a shrub of 8 to 

 10 ft., as it is in such places continually mutilated) ; branches erect- 

 spreading or patent, a little tortuous ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, ever- 

 green, dull green above, much paler beneath, the blade usually concave 

 and curved inwards beneath with the margin variously inflected ; 

 flowers in colour sulphur varying to orange ; calyx tubular, 10-ribbed, 

 folded between the ribs ; the limb short, 4- or 5-cleft ; corolla-limb' 

 5- to 7-cleft ; the lobes at the base longitudinally at the middle and 

 apex transversely plicate-wavy, with a long abrupt limp mucro at the 

 apex ; stamens 5 to 7, alternating with the corolla-lobes ; style filiform, 

 with two dichotomous branches ; stigmas 4, peltate, greenish ; drupe 

 sulphur in colour, as large as a hazel nut. At the outskirts of forests 

 nearly everywhere, but solitary and not in groups ; near Sange, Bango,. 

 the Luinha, etc. ; fl. June 185G. No. 5429. No notes ; fl. No. 54i56. 

 A tree of 20 to 25 ft., with yellow flowers and textile inner bark. At 

 Bango ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. Coll. Carp. 751. A tree of 15 to 20 ft., 

 with very tenacious inner bark, intensely yellow-tawny flowers, and 

 the ripe capsules turning yellow. At Bango ; fr. Sept. 1855. Coll. 

 Carp. 752. Native name " Quibosa ia muchito." 



This is apparently one of the species of Cordia referred to by 

 Welwitsch, Synopse Explic, p. 15, n. 35 (18G2), under the native 

 name of " Quibosa ia mugito," as trees of low elevation growing in the 

 dense forests of this district ; he states that the inner bark is frequently 

 utilised for making ropes : and on account of its great durability it 

 is highly valued by the natives. See also Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 225. 



No. 5457 from Puxcio Andongo, without notes, is a poor specimen 

 in flower ; it should be compared with C. aurantiaca. 



The following No. belongs apparently to an undescribed species 

 of Cordia : — 



A small tree with a lax bead, 9 ft. high or a little more ; 

 branchlets somewhat angular and tawny, leafy, tomentose towards 

 the tips ; leaves broadly and irregularly oval or somewhat rhom- 



