Chasmcmthera] iv. menispermace.e. 15 



Jateorhiza strigosa Miers, Contrib. iii. p. 29 (Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 p. 42), from Congo and Fernando Po, appears to differ. 



The following may belong to this species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A strong dioecious shrub, climbing to a great height, 

 and then hanging down ; tomentum of the stem rufous-ferruginous ; 

 leaves more or less lobed after the fashion of species of Croton. 

 Roadway near Mussengue ; fr. Jan. 1856. Coll. Carp. 197. 



2. TILIACORA Oolebr. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 36. 



1. T. chrysobotrya Wehv. ex Ficalho, PI. Uteis Afric. Port. p. 87 

 (1884). 



Coccichis sp., Welw. Synopse, p. 29, n. 69 ; Triclisia chrysohotrya 

 Welw. ex Ficalho, I.e. 



A robust glabrous arborescent shrub, climbiiag to a great 

 height, evergreen ; trunk at the base usually |- to | ft. diam. ; 

 branches even thicker, voluble ; bark dark-purple, glossy ; branch- 

 lets very tenacious; leaves elliptical, acuminate or cuspidate, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, coriaceous, rather glossy, of nearly the 

 same colour on both surfaces, clearly 3-nerved at the base, 1| to 

 4| by 1^ to 2^ in.; petiole glabrous, ^ to 1 in. long, usually bent 

 or llexuous and slightly thickened near the apex; inflorescence 

 cymose-racemose or paniculate, at length pendulous, elongated, 

 issuing from the leafless trunk ; branches slightly puberulous ; 

 flowers gi-eenish. Male flowers : outer sejoals 6 to 8, unequal, 

 imbricated, pubescent ; inner sepals 3, glabrous, thick, valvate 

 in sestivation, shortly acute and hooded-inflected at the apex ; 

 petals 3, very small, spathulate, squamiform, alternating with 

 the innermost sepals ; stamens 6, three or more times the length 

 of the petals ; filaments flattened, more or less united at the base 

 or free ; anthers large, obtuse, cells longitudinally turgid ; ovary 

 altogether absent or occasionally i-epresented by a bundle of hairs. 

 Female flowers : car-pels glabrous, 24 to 30 or more ; styles 

 subulate; fruit-carpels several (12), obovoid-oblong, gibbous, not 

 much compressed laterally, glabrate ; 1| in. long, shortly stipitate, 

 drupaceous, orange-coloured, with smell and taste of the fruit of 

 Primus Padus L. ; the scar of the style lateral, near the base, 

 next the hilum ; seed induplicate after the manner of the genus ; 

 albumen apparently ruminated. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In primitive woods of Serra de Alta Queta, fre- 

 quent but rarely flowering, fl. March 1856, fr. Feb. 1855. Native 

 name "Xib" or " Abutua." No. 2308. Coll. Carp. 196 (partly). 



Wood abnormal, almost as in Piperacete. Coll. Carp. 944. 



The Biiiua, or Abutua as it is generally called, is a robust climber, 

 and is met with in the virgin forests of the mountainous districts, and 

 especially in those of Golungo Alto, Cazengo, and Dembos. The trunk 

 of this shrub not rarely attains 1 to IJ ft. in circumference, and is of 

 a very remarkable structure ; the natives employ the pounded roots as 

 well as the leaves, branchlets, bark of the trunk, and the fruits as a 

 decoction against diarrhoea, gonorrhoea, and various other distempers, 

 especially long-established syphilis, much commending the infallible 

 efficacy of this remedy, which they moreover apply in cases of snake- 



