Agelcea] XLiii. connarack.e. 189 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A high-climbing shrub ; stem Ih to 3 in. in diam. 

 at the base ; flowers -whitish, inclining to violet ; fruit jjear-shaped, 

 reddish. In dense forests, on the northern side of the mountains of 

 Queta ; fl. April, fr. May 1855. No. 4641. 



Puxcio Andoxgo. — Leaves (in the study set) ranging up to 7 in. 

 long by 5 in. broad, leaflets to 3| by 2^, and petiole to 2^ ; fruiting 

 raceme axillary, 3^ in. long, bearing 8 fruits ; in one instance two 

 carpels perfected and belonging to the same flower. No. 4640. 



3. CONNARUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 432. 



1. C. florulentus Thonning ex DC. Prodr. ii. p. 86 (1825). 



C . Jiorihundus Schum. & Thonn. Guin. Plant, p. 299 (1827); 

 Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 457 ; non Planch, in Linnsea 

 xxiii. p. 435 (1850) ; nee Wall, Oinphcdobium Thonningii DC, 

 I.e. 0. Sineathman7d DC, I.e. C. Smeathmanni Baker, I.e., p. 458. 

 G. Griffonianus Baill. in Adans. vii. p. 235 (1867). 



PuNf;o AxDOXGo. — A very beautiful robust shrub, widely scandent ; 

 flowers when fully expanded yellow ; in dense primitive forests, near 

 Quiembongo and in Mata de Cabondo within the lines of fortification 

 of Pungo Andongo, rather rare ; fr. Dec. 185(3 at Songue ; in flower- 

 bud Jan. 1857 ; fl. and young fr. end of Feb. 1857 ; fr. May 1857. A 

 low bush, with sarmentose branches, rare ; fl. not yet expanded March 

 1857. No. 614. An evergreen climbing shrub ; leaves hard-coriuceous, 

 discoloured beneath ; petals 5, waxy-yellow ; stamens 10, the 5 longer 

 ones exserted and fertile, the 5 shorter ones included and sterile ; 

 style included, incurved, with a green capitate stigma ; by the thickets 

 of the rocks of the fortress of Pungo Andongo ; sparingly in fl. 14 Nov. 

 1856. No. 4638. 



Welwitsch's specimens are intermediate in character between the two 

 species quoted above fi'om the Flora of Tropical Africa, and warrant 

 their union into one species. 



2. C. (?) punctulatus Hiern, sp. n. 



A climbing shrub; leaf (only one seen) pinnate, 1| ft. long, 

 bearing 4 leaflets, but perhaps not having developed all its leaflets ; 

 petiole 9 1 in. long ; leaflets ovate, obtusely narrowed at both ends, 

 thinly coriaceous, glossy, glabrous, delicately veined and reticulate, 

 pellucid-punctate, entire, about 4 in. long by 2 in. wide ; petiolule 

 i in. long, glabrous; inflorescence paniculate, puberulous, many- 

 flowered ; ultimate pedicels very short ; flower-buds ovoid, purple - 

 scarlet (afterwards destroyed % insects, and so not seen in open 

 flower), ^ in. long ; calyx puberulous, deeply 5-partite ; segments 

 imbricate, oblong-ovate ; petals 5, glabrous; stamens 10, glabrous, 

 with filaments alternately longer and shorter and dilated towards 

 the base and there united, in one row and with short anthers ; 

 carpels 5, ovaries hairy tapering into the hairy styles and tipped 

 with glabrous stigmas. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Queta, in flower-bud May 1856. No. 6685. 



4. MANOTES Soland. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 433. 

 1, M. Griffoniana Baill. in Adansonia vii. p. 244 (1867); Baker 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 460. 



GOLTJNGO Alto.— A tree, 12 to 13 ft. high ; branches spreading ; 



