164 XL. AMPELIDE^. [C 



25. C. Buchananii Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 601. 



C. oppositifolia Welw. ms. ex Planch., I.e., p. 602. Vitis Thon- 

 ningii Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 407, p'o jjcirte. V. tenui- 

 caulis Baker, I.e., p. 404, n. 47, pro parte. 



LoANDA. — A prostrate or climbing herb, rather fleshy throughout. 

 Stem brittle at the nodes ; leaves 5-3-foliolate, mostly alternate but 

 occasionally in the middle of the stem opposite, deep green on both 

 surfaces, somewhat pubescent, almost lepidote-pubescent, occasionally 

 glandular ; leaflets repand-dentate, all petiolulate ; flowers yellow- 

 reddish ; cymes dichotomous ; fruit densely ashy-tomentose, as large 

 as a good-sized pea. On stony grassy slopes between Quicuxe and 

 MutoUo ; fl. and nearly ripe fr. April 1854. No. 1492ft. 



Barra do Bexgo. — A prostrate very sarmentose herb, rarely sub- 

 scandent on neighbouring shrubs ; leaflets dark-green and glossy above, 

 pale-green and with raised nerves beneath ; flowers yellowish-red, 

 scattered with little red glands ; calyx unequally and almost obsoletely 

 toothed ; petals saccate-hooded at the apex, rather elongated, connivent 

 into a pitcher which is manifestly constricted in the middle ; stamens 

 4 ; disk rather thick, deeply 4-crenulate. Occasional in dry shrubby 

 places, also in damp places from Quicuxe in the direction of Cacuaco ; 

 fl. July 1858. No. 1492. 



GoLDNGO Alto. — Sporadic at the borders of primitive woods near 

 Undelle ; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 1479. At the borders of primitive woods 

 between Sange and Bango Aquitamba, sporadic ; fl. and young fr. 

 Jan. 1856. No. 14796. 



PUNGO AxDOXGO. — An herbaceous undershrub. Stem elongated, 

 4 to 6 ft. long, climbing, slender, pubescent, with tendrils ; leaves some 

 alternate, others in the middle of the stem opposite, 5-foliolate ; leaflets 

 nearly glabrous, deep-green on both surfaces, obovate-oblong, coarsely 

 repand-dentate : petiole H to 2 in. long ; cymes axillary, on long 

 peduncles, equalling the leaves, repeatedly 3-2-chotomously divided ; 

 the flowers as well as the stem, petioles and margins of the leaves beset 

 with distant thickly-stalked glands. Rather rare, in rocky thickets 

 between Caghuy and Calunda, by the road leading from Pungo 

 Andongo towards Candumba, fl. Feb. 1857. No. 1469. 



Bumbo. — ^A bright-green, widely climbing herb, with slender stem 

 and yellow-purplish flowers. In primitive forests along a stream in 

 Serra da Xella ; one specimen fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1452. 



26. C. crassiuscula Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 608. 



Vitis crassiuscula Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 406. 



LoANDA. — A herb, branched at the base ; branches dark-purple, 

 glandular-viscid, prostrate ; branchlets occasionally ascending and 

 scandent ; leaves 5-3-foliolate ; leaflets rather thick and succulent, 

 deep-green above, white-tomentellous beneath ; flowers yellow-pur- 

 plish ; unripe fruit ovoid, tomentose. Sparingly in shortly bushy 

 poor ground between Penedo and Concei§ao ; fl. and young fr. end 

 of June 1858. No. 1459. 



5. LEEA Royen L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 388. 



1. L. guineensis G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 712 (1831); C. B. 

 Clarke in Jonrn. Bot. 1881, p. 166. 



L. sambucma Sebum. & Thonn. Guin. PI. p. 134 (1827); 

 Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 415 ; non Willd. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A handsome undershrub, 4 to 9 ft. high ; leaves 



