355 
glowing garlands, Pungo Andongo (Hiern, Cat. Welw a FL 
li. pp. 453, 454); found in the Cameroons at an altitude 7 “S000. 
4500 ft. (Bot. Mag. l.c.). 
Mussaenda Isertiana, DC.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 67. 
Vernac. name.—Igi ira (Lagos, Dawodu). 
Abeokuta (Irving); Lagos Island (Barter); Whydah, Slave 
Coast (Isert). 
A climbing or bushy shrub, 6—15 ft. Inflorescence ee M eon 
white bracts, flowers yellow; a handsome decorative plan 
Mussaenda tenuiflora, Benth.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 69. 
Old Calabar one Holland: Nos. 73, 83 & 126, Herb. 
Kew); Golungo Alto 
À decorative pluit; A very elegant shrub, scandent, with long 
sarmentose branches, calyx green, the enlarged lobe ‘foliaceous, 
white, soon turning a whitish-sulphur colour, Golungo Alto 
(Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. ii. p. 453). 
Among other Mussaendas that possess some interest as decorative 
plants may be mentioned M. Afzelii, Don. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 66, 
collected at Aboh by Vogel, ane M. luteola, Delile, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
iii. p. 71, figured in Bot. Mag. t. 5573, from plants grown at Kew 
n 1866, the seeds being collected by Capt. Grant in the rocky 
ravines of Gani and Madi, 1863. 
Dicryanpra, Welw. 
Dictyandra arborescens, Welw.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 86. 
Vernac. name.—Mungolo oamxi (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch). 
Old Calabar, and in Angola, the Cameroons, etc. 
Timber used for hut-building, in Golungo ae (Hiern, Cat. 
Welw. Afr. Pl. ii. p. 457). A piece of the wood [Cameroons, 
Zenker] in the Kew Museum has specific grav ity 0-131 — 46 Ib. 
per cubic ft 
A tree 15-35 ft. high in the primitive forests, or a stout shrub 
8-12 ft., trunk sometimes 2-21 ft. in diameter, Golungo Alto (1.c.). 
Ranna, Houst. 
Randia genipaefiora, DC.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 95. 
Lagos. Also in Sierra Leone and Fernando Po. 
Referred to as ‘* Wild Coffee," Fernando Po (Barter, Herb. 
Kew), and of Sierra Leone (Barter, Mus. Kew); found as a shrub: 
-or tree up to 20 ft., fruit globose, 4 in. in diameter (Fl. Trop. 
Ar. Le.) 
Randia macrantha, DC.; Fl. Trop Afr. III. p. 97. 
Ill.—Salisbury, Parad. Lond. t. 93 (R. nee Bot. Mag. 
t. 3409 (R. Seima): Bot. TE (1846) 3 (Gardenia 
Devoniana); Paxt Mag. xiii 269 d (Gardenia Devoniana) ; 
Fl. des Serres, t. Toi (Gardenia one. 
