90 XX. AROiDE.E. [Ctdcasia 



9. CULCASIA Beauv. ; Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 980. 



1. C. scandens Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. p. 4. t. 3 (1804) ; Engl, in DC. 

 Mon. Phan. ii. p. 102 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Ah: v. p. 471. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A very high-climbing shrub, stem as thick as a 

 duck's quill at the base, and of dull chestnut-colour, herbaceous-green at 

 2 to 3 ft. high, somewhat woody inside, hard, tough. Leaves ovate- 

 acuminate or ovate-obloDg, varying in form, coriaceous, shining, pale 

 green beneath. Scapes and spathes slender, rather rare. Spadix white 

 (a well-developed one never seen), spathe green. Berries coriaceous, 

 as big as a small pea, arranged in a short capituliform raceme, one- 

 seeded. Seeds ovate, subconvex on one face, more or less flat on the 

 other, marked with an obovate not very deep pit extending from the 

 base to the middle of the seed. Plentiful in the more lofty primitive 

 woods of the district, e.g. Mata de Quisuculo near Bango, but a 

 rather rare flowerer, April 1856. No. 233. Berries scarlet, 8 May, 

 1856. Coll. Carp. 1016. Very plentiful on shaded ground in dense 

 woods by the spring of Capopo, but through three years never seen in 

 flower. In leaf Sept. 1855. No. 235. A unique specimen. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A decumbent herb with stem becoming some- 

 what woody, leaves coriaceous, bright green, paler beneath. Spathe 

 herbaceous-green, straight, cylindrical, abbreviated, gaping at the top. 

 Spadix clavate-cylindrical, whitish-yellow, equal in length to the 

 spathe or a little shorter, slightly exserted at the top. Ovaries few, 

 occupying ^ or ^ of the spadix, brownish or dull green, more or less 

 angled, free, unilocular, stigma sessile, subpeltate or patelliform and 

 somewhat excentric. Shady places in the woods of Mata de Quilanga 

 near streams. In fl. 14 Feb. 1857. No. 234. Very shady woods on 

 the islands of Calemba in the river Cuanza, very plentiful, but not 

 ■seen in flower. March 1857. No. 234^. A unique specimen. 



2. C. angolensis Welw. ex Schott in Journ. Bot. 1865, p. 35; 

 Engl., I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Stem very high-climbing woody, leaves coriaceous, 

 shining above, glaucous and paler beneath, spathe snow-white, resem- 

 bling that of C'alla j)alustns, spadix yellow, berries scarlet, one-seeded. 

 Always climbs perpendicularly on tree-trunks, often 60 to 80 ft. high ; 

 the woody stem retains, even when old, its bright green colour. One 

 of the greatest ornaments of the primitive woods of Upper Angola, 

 occurring generally with Phitycerium angoleji-si', high climbing species 

 of Asparagus and smaller epiphytic ferns. Plentiful in damp shady 

 primseval woods, climbing to a great height on the trees throughout the 

 whole district, especially in the Sobato de Bumba and Alto Queta. In fl. 

 May 1855. No. 239. In fr. July 1856 in woods near Sange. No. 239". 

 Fruiting top of an individual, 30ft. high, climbing vertically on the trunk 

 of a Stercidia in primitive woods near Bango-Aquitamba. called Quisu- 

 culo, Sept. 1855, the ripe fruit scarlet, as big as a small pea. No. 239^. 



PuNGO Andongo. — High trunks in the woods of Quilunga, but less 

 plentiful than in Golungo. In fl. March 1857. No. 240. 



10. AROIDES Heister ex Fabric. Enum. PI. (Ed. 2.)p. 42. (1763). 



Richardia Kunth ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 982. 



1. A. hastatum O.K. {Arodes) Eev. Gen. PI. p. 740 (1891). 



Richardia hastata Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5176 (I860); Engl, in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. ii. p. 328. Zantedeschia hastata Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 iv. p. 64 (1883); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 477. 



