84 XXIV. STERCULiACEiE. [StercuUa 



Ambaca. — Rather rare on rather moist wooded slopes, at an elevation 

 of about 3200 ft. above sea-level, near a place called Puricacarambola, 

 in nearly ripe fr. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 4695. Coll. Carp. 274, 946. 



2. OCTOLOBUS Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 982 

 (1867) ; Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxvii. p. 17 (1869). 



1. 0. spectabilis Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 18, t. 6. 



PuxGO Andoxgo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, patently branched, with 

 a lax crown ; sporadic, in the mountainous rocky woods of the fortress 

 of Pungo Andongo, at a place called Barranco da Pedra Songue ; fl. Jan., 

 fr. April 1857. No. 1202. Coll. Carp. 281. 



3. EDWARDIA Rafinesque, Speccbio delle Scienze, torn. 2 

 (No. xi.), p. 158 (1 Nov. 1814). Cola H. Schott & Endl. ; Benth. 

 & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 218. 



1. E. lurida Rafinesque, I.e. 



Cola acuminata Brown in PI. Jav. Rar. p. 237 (1844) ; Ma.ster.s 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 220. Lunanea Bichtj DC. Prodr. ii. 

 p. 92 (1825). 



GoLUXGO Alto. — In the forests of Cabanga Cacabango ; fl. Jan. 

 1855. No. 4669. At Bango Aquitamba, flower-bud Dec. 1854. No. 4670. 

 A copiously leafy tree, 25 to 60 ft. high and more, affording friendly 

 hospitality to mosses, lichens, orchids and Hhipsalh Cas><iitha Gaertn. ; 

 seeds eaten by the negroes ; in the dense forests of Sobato de Quilembo- 

 Quiacatubia ; f r. from Nov. to Jan., fl. and young fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4671. 

 At Quilombo, fl. July 1856. No. 4672. A little tree, 8 ft. high ; at 

 Capopa, notinfl. Dec. 1855. No. 4673. Nuts of Cola. Coll. Carp. 282. 



Island of St. Thomas. — In flower-bud Dec. 1860; called "Cola." 

 No. 4677. 



Sierra Leone. — Fl. Sept. 1853 ; perhaps var. /3.(Sie?'c;/Z/awiacroc«)y« 

 G. Don Gen. Syst. i. p. 515, 1831). No. 4676. 



The next two No.s. differ by their more oblong leaves rounded 

 at the base, and may belong to a different species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Capopa, Aug. 1856 ; branch with foliage. No. 4674. 

 A shrub or little tree, 10 to 12 ft. high ; branches rather erect ; branch- 

 lets green ; habit of Laurus or of Ma/ig/fera ; leaves coriaceous, ever- 

 green, with the petiole much swollen at the base of the blade and twice 

 jointed — namely, there and at its insertion ; about the spring at Capopa 

 in Sobato de Bumba ; not yet seen in flower, July 1855. No. 4675. 



According to a note amongst Welwitsch's mss. the expanded flowers 

 of this tree possess a vinous-aromatic odour, which, however, after 

 complete fecundation, becomes fetid and almost excremental. The 

 plant is both indigenous and cultivated in the mountainous districts, 

 and affords a lucrative article of export to Brazil. 



2. E. caricaefolia O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. i. p. 79 (1891). 



Cola Afzelii Masters, I.e., p. 223. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A slender little tree, with branches forming a 

 leafy crown, never seen by Welwitsch in flower ; leaves like in habit 

 those of some Euphorbiaceae. At the skirts of primitive forests, near 

 Sange, Dec. 1855. No. 4680. Apparently belonging to this species, 

 although the leaf differs from those of Brown's types by the absence 

 of ferruginous spreading hairs on the principal nerves near the base 



