4 I. RANUNCULACE^, [CUmatis 



rounded, or the larger ones wedge-shaped at the base, 3-lobed or 

 tridentate, with or without smaller distant teeth terminating the 

 veinlets ; teeth and lobes obtuse, mucronulate. Panicles terminal, 

 erect ; floral branches patent, trichotomous, cymose, bearing several 

 pedicels, rather exceeding the leaves. Flowers white, rather more 

 than an inch in diameter ; buds rounded ; sepals oval obtuse, 

 spreading, tomentose on both sides, | in. by 5 in. ; stamens 5 in. 

 long ; filaments flattened, slender, glabrous in the upper part and 

 shaggy in the lower ; anthers linear, ^ in. long, glabrous. 



PcNGO Andongo. — Near the river Cuanza, by thickets along the 

 borders of little woods, in Sobato de Bumba, rather rare ; in early 

 flower at the end of March 1857. Xo. 1217. 



This is the plant mentioned by Oliver (p. 7) as perhaps alhed to 

 C. grata. 



5. C. pseudograndiflora O. Kuntze in Verb. Bot. Brandenb. 

 xxvi. p. 128 (1885). 



C. grandiflora Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 7, non DC. 



Cazexgo. — Xear Cacula, in dense forests composed of Coffea, etc., in 

 Mata de Cabondo, but not abundant ; not yet in full flower in June 

 1855. Xo. 1218. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — By wooded thickets, in the elevated stations of 

 Sobato Quilombo-Quiacatubia, but rather rarely met with ; fl. middle 

 of July 1856. No. 1219. In the primitive forests of Mata de Quisu- 

 cula, very rare ; fr. 8 Sept. 1855. Xo. 1219'^. 



2. RANUNCULUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 5. 



1. R. pinnatus Poir. in Lam. Encvcl. Meth, vi. p. 126 (1804) ; 

 OUv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 9 ; Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 88. 



R. pvJjescens Thunb, Fl. Cap. p. 443 (1823). R. memhranaceus 

 Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 207 (1837). R. atriatus Hochst. 

 in Herb. Schimp. Aby.ss. i. n. 140; A. Pvich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 

 p. 8 (1847). 



Bumbo. — At the base of Serra da Xella, near Bumbo, in primitive 

 very shady forests, alongside rivulets, not uncommon ; not yet in 

 flower Oct. 1859. X'o. 1209. 



HuiLLA. — Along the banks of the streams of the Lopollo country, in 

 rich grassy stations annually flooded in the rainy season, at an elevation 

 of 5000 ft., in companv with Satyrmm Welv:itschii Rchb. f. (Welw. 

 Herb. Xo. 726) ; fl. and'fr. from Jan. to April 1860. Xo. 1208. 



Xear Lopollo, fr. April 1860, by streams. Coll. Carp. 83. 



IL DILLEXIACEiE. 



In the district of Golungo Alto one or two species of Tetracera 

 occur, but not very frequently, in the dense, hot, steaming, 

 primitive forests near Sange, in the form of mighty creepers. 

 In the district of Pungo Andongo an erect species of Tetracera 

 occurs, an undershrub, a foot or rather more in height, with 

 flowers three times as large as those of the Golungo Alto species. 

 No other DiUeniacese were collected in Angola, and none are 

 reported from Abyssinia. 



