32 IX. CAPPARIDACE^. [Ca2}pa7'is 



very patent ; branchlets sarmentose ; flowers whitish ; stamens red- 

 yellow ; in primitive woods, in stony scarcely or but little shaded places, 

 between Bumbo and Bruco, at the foot of the mountains of Serra da 

 Xella ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 985. 



2. C. corymbosa Lam., Encycl. Meth. i. p. 605 (1783) ; Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. p. 96; var. subglabra Oliv., I.e., p. 97. 



LoANDA. — A divaricately branched, subscandent shrub, as tall as a 

 man ; flowers whitish ; fruit rubicund ; furnishes the best-flavoured 

 capers. In bushy sandy places of the district, as far as Quicuje ; fl. 

 and fr. from Jan. to March 1854. No. 990. 



3. C. viminea Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 97. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A much-branched scandent shrub; petals obovate- 

 lanceolate, shaggy-tomentose outside (only one petal seen by Dr. 

 Welwitsch ; the buds being infested with the larvae of an insect, 

 further examination was impossible). In dense thickets at the skirts 

 of woods, only seen in one place, at the base of the mountains of Serra 

 de Alta Queta ; in flower-bud August and Sept. 1856. No. 986. 



Oliver, I.e., states that the species occurs also in the Eastern Hima- 

 laya and Tenasserim ; but the Indian plant is an erect shrub, with 

 weaker less recurved prickles and larger foliage, and is apparently a 

 different species. 



4. C. erythrocarpos Isert in Beob. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. iii. 

 p. 334, t. 9 (1789) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 98 {erythrocarpa). 



Ambriz. — Fruit when ripe bright scarlet. On bushy hills between 

 Ambriz and Quibango, abundcant ; in fruit Nov. 1853. No. 971. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A much-branched subscandent shrub as tall as a 

 man ; petals herbaceous-green ; stamens yellowish ; style and stigma 

 purple. The bark of this shrub is employed with much effect as a 

 caustic by the natives. Ripe fruit scarlet, near Cacarambola, Feb. 

 1854 (a single specimen). In high bushy places, on the skirts of primi- 

 tive woods, near Sange, and also between Chixe and Calolo ; fl. 7 Sept. 

 and Oct. 1856. No. 970. A shrub 4 to 5 ft. high, subscandent, beset 

 with prickles ; flowers similar to those of C. sphiosa L. ; fruit baccate, 

 ovoid-clavate, of a deep scarlet-red colour, of the size of a small pigeon's 

 egg, longitudinally 6-7-ribbed ; at Sange Dec. 1854. Coll. Carp. 210. 

 A spinous subscandent shrub ; leaves simple, elliptical-ovate ; fruit 

 large, ovoid-pyramidal, angular-ribbed, bright scarlet. Near Cacaram- 

 bola, June 1855. Coll. Carp. 211. A subscandent shrub, with 

 pyramidal-ribbed bright scarlet fruit. At Sange end of Dec. 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 212. 



LiBONGO. — A divaricately branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, bristling 

 with spines ; flowers greenish- white, sometimes very few, at other 

 times abundant. Fruit of a fine scarlet colour, pyramidal-conical, as 

 large as a large nut, many-seeded ; very frequent in bushy places from 

 Banza de Libongo to the ascent of tlae neighbouring mountains ; fl. 

 end of Sept. 1858. No. 972. In wooded thickets around Banza de 

 Libongo ; in flower-bud beginning of Oct. 1858. No. 973. 



It is apparently the shrub alluded to by Welwitsch, Apont. p. 555, 

 under n. 120, of which he states that the bark of the root is called 

 by the negroes " Suna," and is used by them as a caustic and sudorofic. 

 Coll. Carp. 947 may perhaps belong to the same ; its fruit is glabrous, 

 ovoid, marked by 6 ridges, measures 2 in. long by 1 in. thick, and has 

 a peduncle of 1 in. 



