354 Lii. coMBRETACE^. [CampijlocMton 



rather thick, fleshy, convex-plane or sub^semicylindrical, narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, with a few longitudinal furrows on the convex 

 back, smooth on the flat inner face : radicle very short, straight, 

 obtusely conical; plumule inconspicuous. Erect or scandent 

 robust shrubs, with opposite or rarely altei-nate leaves, large 

 spicate-racemose bracteate flowers, and rather large winged fruits. 

 Cacoucia Benth. & Hook f. Gen. PI. i. p. 688, pro imrte ; Laws, 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 433, pro parte, ; non Aubl., nee Walp. 



1. C. platyptenis Hiern. 



Cacoucia jilatyptera Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 24 (1869) j Hemsley 

 in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2549 (June 1897). C. villosa Laws, in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 433, quoad specimen Welwitschianum. C. 

 2)aiiiculata Laws., I.e., p. 434, quoad specimen Mannianum. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An arborescent shrub, sometimes standing erect 

 (as for instance at Ponte de Felix Simoes), in other cases climbing to 

 a great height to the tops of forest trees ; stems cylindrical, glabrous ; 

 leaves opposite or occasionally sub-alternate, glossy, obscurely green, 

 evergreen ; peduncles rachis bracts and flowers silky-tomentellous, in 

 the living state whitish -tomentellous ; flowers rather fleshy ; bracts at 

 length deciduous ; calyx-tube rosy-scarlet, f to 1 in.long ; glands at the 

 insertion of the filaments yellow, silky-bearded at the apex ; anthers 

 yellow ; style 1 to IJ in. long ; ovules 4, pendulous to a considerable 

 distance from the apex of the cell of the ovary ; fruit brilliantly 

 coloured deep rosy-scarlet throughout, Ij to 1^ in. long and broad ; 

 wings papery, rather rigid. In the tall thickets at the borders of 

 primitive forests among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, near 

 Sange ; also at Capopa, etc ; fl. April and May 1855 and 1856 ; fr. 

 August and Sept. 1856 and 1857. No. 1752 and Coll. Carp. 556. 

 Sobato Mussengue ; fl. end of May 1856. A form with alternate 

 leaves. No. 17526. 



The most beautiful member of the family in Angola. 



6. CAMPYLOGYNE Welw. ex Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2550 

 (June 1897). 



1. C. exannulata Hemsl., I.e. 



Cacoucia exannulata 0. Hoffm. in Linnsea xliii. p. 132 (1881). 



C. bracteata Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 434, quoad 

 specimen Welwitschianum. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A climbing shrub, spiny at the base or with the 

 petioles at length hooked-spinescent ; calyx tubular, curved, superior, 

 6-furrowed, obtusely 5-ribbed ; tube naked inside, without a ring of 

 hairs or glands, herbaceous and green on the lower fifth, the rest more 

 tender and sub-coroUine, whitish or of a soiled-rose colour or reddish 

 after flowering ; petals 5, ovate or oval, rather obtuse, sessile or very 

 shortly unguiculate, more or less silky- pubescent on both faces, whitish or 

 at length pale-reddish ; stamens 10, the 5 longer ones scarcely exceeding 

 the petals ; anthers almost orbicular, didymous, red, dorsifixed in the 

 middle, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing ; ovary obtusely pentagonal, 

 1-celled, bi-ovulate ; ovules pendulous from the apex of the ovary ; 

 style scarcely exserted, adhering below (for the lower fifth) to the 

 calyx-tube and then doubly bent in a sigmoid manner, much thickened 

 at the double bend, filiform above, from the middle towards the apex 



