98 XXV. TiLiACE^. [Trimnfetta 



" Quibosa." In the primitive woods of Sob. de Mussengue, frequent, 

 fl. and fr. March 1856. No. 1427. A shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high ; stems 

 c^spitosely crowded, usually erect or ascending, woody ; bark very 

 tenacious, ashy-green, roughish, used for making ropes ; leaves tomen- 

 tose beneath ; flowers dark yellow ; anthers and filaments dull yellow ; 

 prickles of the capsule hooked, armed with long hyaline pilose hairs. 

 Native name " Quibosa." In dampish thickets, at the banks of the 

 river Cuango near Camilungo, etc., very common, fl. and fr. May to 

 July 1856. No. 1428. Cf. Coll. Carp. 291. August. Coll. Carp. 290. 

 In damp wooded places near Camilungo, Prata de Felix Simoes, fl. 

 May 1855. No. 4647. 



The following, without either flower or fruit, probably belongs 

 to the same species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A gigantic herb with very thick striate stem and 

 very ample leaves. Native name " Quibosa." Ropes, sacks, etc., are 

 made from the fibre of its stem ; 14 Dec. 1854. No. 4648. 



5. T. pilosa Roth, Nov. Sp. p. 223 (1821); Masters, I.e., p. 257. 

 Golungo Alto. — In dampish, high-grassy thickets near Undelle, fl. 



and young fr. Feb. 1855. No. 1424. An undershrub, 3 ft. high, 

 patently branched (not yet fully developed) ; in wooded places near 

 Quibixe, between Sange and Mussengue, fl. beginning of June 1856. 

 No. 1425. A sub -herbaceous undershrub, 3 ft. high, Mussengue path, 

 fl. June 1856. No. 14256. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the little woods composed of a species of 

 Fsidium, in the island of Calemba, in the river Cuanza, fl. 12 March 

 1857. No. 1422. 



Bumbo. — A herb or undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, branching widely. 

 Sporadic in dampish wooded and shrubby places in Chao da Xella, fr. 

 Oct. 1859. No. 1421. 



HuiLLA. — An erect robust shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high ; stems patently 

 branched towards the apex. In shrubby woods, near the main river 

 Monino in Matas do Monino, sparingly in fruit, without flowers, Jan. 

 1860. No. 1420. An erect herb, scarcely to be called a shrub, at 

 length virgately branched towards the apex. In tall-grassy places at 

 the banks of stream Eme, fl. and young fr. April 1860. No. 1423. 



6. T. rhomboidea Jacq. PI. Carib. p. 22 (1760); Mast., I.e., p. 257. 

 IcoLO E Bexgo. — A patently branched herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; stem 



usually purplish ; leaves of 2 or even 3 types of shape on the same 

 plant ; flowers yellowish. In marshy wooded places, at the river 

 Bengo, near the Convent of St. Antonio and Funda, fl. and fr. Dec. 



1853. No. 1429. A suffrutescent herb, about 3 ft. high ; stems erect ; 

 branches patent ; leaves of one type of shape ; fruit rather small, 

 prickles hooded and at maturity naked. In palm-groves, composed 

 of Elaeis guinecnsis and Cocos nucifcm, along the river Bengo, near 

 Quifandongo, and from St. Antonio to Prata, fl. and f r. (Dec. 1853 and) 

 Sept. 1857. No. 1418. 



Cazengo. — In thickets along the banks of the river Luinha, fl. and 

 young fr. June 1855. No. 1419. 



Golungo Alto. — Stems 2 to 3 ft. high, with different types of 

 foliage from the same root. In wooded places along the stream Capopa, 

 on the way to the spring of Capopa, near Sange, fl. and young fr. Dec. 



1854. No. 1431. A herb, woody at the base, 1 to li ft. high ; stem 

 straight, divaricately branched above ; flower golden-yellow. In open 

 thickets along the river Cuango but in rather dry places, fl. and fr. 



