148 XXXVIII, CELASTRACEyE. [^Hipiwcratea 



3. H. parvifolia Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 368. 



HuiLLA.— A shrub extensively climbing, or sometimes erect and 

 1 to 2 ft. high. In mixed woods composed of Proteace^, Myrtace«, 

 Loganiace^, etc., between Lopollo and Monino ; fl. and fr. Jan. and 

 Feb. 1860. No. 1325. 



4. H. indica WUld. Sp. PI. i. p. 193 (1797); OHv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 368. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An immense climbing shrub ; trunk 6 inches or 

 usually 3 to 4 inches in diam. at the base ; trailing shoots sometimes 

 30 to 40 ft. long, bright green at the apex, as are also the extremities 

 of the branches and branchlets ; leaves variable in form, eUiptical ovate 

 and nearly orbicular, obtuse and acuminate on the same plant, 

 coriaceous, evergreen, obscurely green and polished above, pale green 

 and less glossy beneath, midrib especially towards the base very 

 prominent, margins decurrent into the petiole ; flowers only occurring 

 on the branches which hang down from trees, pale yellow, fragrant. 

 The very tough and twisted stem of this liana is readily employed by 

 the negroes for the construction of pig-sties, as the toughness of the 

 stems offers a greater resistance to the pigs' teeth than other building- 

 woods. In dense woods especially at their borders in Sobato de Serra 

 de Alto Queta, Bango, Quilombo, etc. ; fl. July 1855. Also near Quitondo 

 Dec. 1854. Native name "N-Gunho." No. 1333. A shrub climbing 

 to a great height and variable in habit. Frequent along the border 

 of the primitive woods of Quisucula, near Bango Aquitamba ; fl. Jan. 

 and Feb. 1855. No. 1334. An evergreen shrub, sometimes scandent, 

 sometimes nearly erect ; leaves in the living state very glossy and 

 almost varnished ; flowers of a greenish-straw colour, but soon the 

 whole inflorescence and also the young branchlets are clothed with a 

 dark purple tinge. In bushy places at the skirts of the primitive 

 woods of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. August 1855, in flower-bud March 

 1855. No. 1337. A robust shrub, extensively climbing ; leaves 

 coriaceous, glossy ; capsules very glaucous, as if scattered with white 

 meal. In the less dense woods of Serra de Alto Queta ; fr. August 

 1855. No. 1338. A specimen from this district with foliage but 

 without either fl. or fr. may perhaps belong to this species. No. 4650. 

 Alto Queta. Fr. July 1857. Coll. Carp. 330. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A scandent evergreen shrub ; leaves coriaceous, 

 glossy ; flowers rather fleshy, yellowish. In bushy places along the 

 banks of the river Luxillo ; fl. beginning of Nov. 1856. No. 1324. 



5. H. apocynoides Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 368. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An extensively climbing shrub, simulating in 

 the living state some species of Apocynacese as to habit and external 

 aspect of the flowers ; branches and branchlets spreading at right 

 angles, ashy- or dusky-tomentose, occasionally spirally cirrhose and 

 then thickened at that part, very tenacious ; leaves thickly coriaceous, 

 obovate, rather glossy above, paler beneath, entire or towards the apex 

 denticulate ; flowers greenish ; calyx green-tomentose, rather fleshy, 

 much shorter than the petals ; petals 5, incurved around the base of 

 flat thick disk, rather fleshy, green-tomentose, lanceolate, towards the 

 apex channeUed-subulate, half-patent at the time of flowering ; stamens 

 3 ; filaments suddenly acuminate from a broad base girt by a dusky 

 glandular spot, extrorsely involute at the apex, bearing thus the 

 anthers out of sight ; style conical, hyaline-stigmatose at the apex. 

 In the primitive woods of Serra de Alto Queta, persisting for 2 or 3 



