284: XLiv, LEGUMiNOS^. [Deguelia 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A Vcast tree, 50 to 100 ft. high ; trunk 2 to 3^ ft. 

 in diam. at the base, in old trees naked for a great height ; timber very 

 hard ; branches patent ; crown broad, dense, depresso-ovoid ; branchlets 

 densely ferruginous-tomentose ; adult leaves a yard long or more, 

 impari-pinnate ; petiole articulate at the base, ventricose, bistipulate : 

 stipules broad, coriaceous, concave, hooded ; leaflets alternate, 11 to 15, 

 softly coriaceous, oval, obtuse or cuspidate at the apex, more or less cor- 

 date at the base, 2 to 7 by 1| to 3 in., pellucid-venulose, glossy above, with 

 raised nerves and with dense raised intervening veinlets beneath, densely 

 hispid-pilose beneath (on old trees ferruginous-tomentose) ; petiolules 

 thickened, uni-stipellate ; pods apparently dehiscent, 5 to 7 by 1^ to 

 Ij in., 1 -seeded ; seed rather compressed, 1 by i in. Sporadic, at the 

 margins of primitive forests between Sange and Bango-Aquitamba ; 

 in flower-bud with foliage 8 Sept. 1856 ; flowers not seen in Oct. and 

 Nov. ; in fr. after the fall of the leaves in July 1857. No. 1892. The 

 apex of a tree 7 ft. high, according to Dr. Welwitsch apparently a 

 young plant of No. 1892 ; leaflets 9, oval or ovate, cuspidate at apex, 

 cordate at base, paler beneath, 2J to of by 1| to 2 in., the lateral ones 

 sub-opposite ; in the dense primitive woods between Sange and 

 Bango-Aquitamba, during an excursion started from Capopa, with 

 foliage without fl. or fr., in July 1857. No. 1893- Fresh shoots of a 

 tree a foot in diam. at the base, which had been cut down ; leaflets 

 13 to 15, alternate or sub-opposite, oval or oblong, obtuse or sub- 

 cuspidate at the apex, somewhat cordate at the base, 4 to 7 by 2 to 3^ in., 

 paler beneath ; in the forest in front of Quibixe, in leaf, without fl. or 

 fr. in August 1855. No. 6678. 



55. DALHOUSIEA Graham ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 552. 



1. D. africana S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 2. 



B. hracteata Baker in Oliv. El. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 247. 



6oLUN(io Alto.— A small tree or sometimes (in secondary thickets) 

 a robust tree-shaped shrub, 8 to 10 ft. high ; branches chmbing far and 

 widely, sarmentose or sub-sarmentose, nodulose ; leaves simple (uni- 

 foliolate), rigidly papery or coriaceous, dark-green, pendulous ; calyx 

 sub-campanulate, almost corolline, after flowering saucer-shaped, with 

 the margins bent inwards, shortly 5-toothed, included in 2 orbicular 

 ciliate green bracteoles ; corolla snow-white, much longer than the 

 calyx ; standard very broadly obcordate ; wing-petals obovate-oblong, 

 patent ; keel falcate ; stamens free ; anthers yellow ; ovary lanceolate ; 

 slightly crenate, quite glabrous, rather compressed, gradually tapering 

 into the cylindrical style which rather exceeds the stamens ; stigma 

 narrowly capitate ; pod few-seeded, bivalved, dehiscent ; valves hard, 

 black, glaucous. At the margins of primitive forests along the banks 

 of the river Delamboa and in secondary thickets near Undelle, Bango, 

 and in Serra de Alto Queta ; not uncommon but in fr. rather rare ; 

 fl. May, Oct. and Dec. 1865 and in May and June 1856 ; fr. in March 

 and April 1856 ; at elevation of 2400 ft. No. 2236. Coll. Cakp. 448. 

 A shrub with simple coriaceous long-petiolate leaves and white flowers. 

 In dense forests near Sange ; fl. Feb. and March, ripe fr. August 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 449. 



This species occurred in the localities mentioned above in company 

 with Caeoucia platyptera Welw. Herb. No. 1752 ; see Welw. Sert. 

 Angol. p. 26 (1869). It occurs also in the Congo district, having been 

 found by Monteiro at Quiballa flowering in the month of April. The 

 fungus n. 387 grew on the branchlets of Dulhouniea in the district 

 of Cazengo. It is very nearly related to the North Indian species 



