Boyiax] IV. scitamine.e. 23 



7. DONAX Lour. Fl. Coch. Chin. i. p. 14. 

 Clino(j>/)iii Siilisb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 651. 



1. D. purpurea K. Sebum, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 440 

 (1893); Durancl & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 131. 



Glinogyne purpurea Ricll. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 132. Maranta 

 discolor Welw. Synops. p. 43 (1862). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb with perennial root, with several stems 

 2 to 3 ft. high, erect, slender, clothed by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves h 

 to \h ft., ovate or oblong-ovate, the larger i to f ft. broad, glaucous- 

 green, and pinnately streaked with white above, with a white bloom 

 beneath, and a bi-oad green margin on one side. Flowers purple. 

 Berry globular, smooth, the size of a rather small pea, generally 

 2-seeded. Plentiful in primitive woods near rivers. In fl. and fr. 

 Jan. and March 1855. Leaves covered beneath with a snow-like 

 powder, except on the deep green edge of one side. Primitive 

 woods at 2500 to 2800 ft. Feb. 1855. Flowers azure to almost 

 blue-purple ; berry scarlet. Pi'imitive forest of Quisuculo. In fl. 

 and fr. March 185G. Xative names, "N-Subi," "Tinsubi," or "Subi 

 Capele." No. 6440. 



Cazengo. — Herb 5 to 8 ft. high, lower surface of the leaves white. 

 By mountain streams. Jan. 1855. Coll. Carp. 992. 



8. TRACHYPHRYNIUM Benth. in Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 651. 



1. T. violaceum Ptidl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133 ; Durand & 

 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 132. 



PuxGO AxDONGO. — A shrubby lofty climber, ultimately pendent, 

 stems cylindrical, nodose, hard woody at the base, and | in. thick. 

 Flowers fugacious, violet to purple, or bluish. Fruit a depressed 

 triangular capsule, covered with bristly tubercles, 1 to Ih in. across, 

 containing three one-seeded loculi, dehiscing by valves. Seeds sub- 

 spherical, brown, the size of a hazel-nut. Leaves papery-rigidulous, 

 glaucous-green when alive, elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate, with an 

 obtuse or subcordate base, and an acuminate or cuspidate apex, the 

 larger | ft. long, \ ft. broad. Somewhat rare in the primitive woods 

 of MutoUo at 2500 and 3000 ft., and on the presidium itself at 

 Barrancos de Catete and de Pedra Songue. In fl. Jan. in fr. April 

 1857. No. 6441. Primitive woods of Sobato Galanga, in fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1855 ; and Quilombo-Quiacatubia. No. 6441/', and Coll. Carp. 

 990. Cungulungulo, Coll. Carp. 988, 989. Without further locality. 

 Coll. Carp. 994. 



9. PHRYNIUM Willd. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 652. 

 1. P. textile Eidl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133. 



Phyllodes textile Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 133. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A rather fine herb 5 to 6 ft. high ; stems erect, 

 hard, almost woody, petioles very long and rigid. Inflorescence red to 

 scarlet. Native name " Subigrande " ; (.sh6/ = a textile plant). Plentiful 

 near the rivers in the primitive woods of Quisuculo growing mixed 

 with another species also called " Subi " by the blacks. [Pre- 

 sumably CUnogijne jnopureu Ridl.] In scarcely op?ied fl. Sept. 1855. 

 No. 6439. 



