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branches springing from near its base, dark-ashy rather strict 
and straight and puberulous towards the extremities; leaves 
mostly ternate, oval, shortly acuminate to an obtuse or apiculate 
apex, somewhat cordate at the base, minutely white-dotted and 
glabrous on both faces except the puberulous clearly marked 
venation, the principal veins of which are impressed on the upper 
face, sub-glaucescent above, thinly coriaceous, very rigid, 3 to 6 in. 
long by 14 to 3 wide; petiole tawny-tomentellous or obsoletely 
so, ¢ to } in. long, thickened towards the base; inflorescence 
axillary, densely racemose, brown-tomentellous ,or densely 
pubescent, about half as long as the leaves; pedicels ranging 
up to 7 in. long; flowers white, pentamerous; calyx densely 
pubescent, almost tomentose, constricted above the ovary, the 
free portion somewhat funnel-shaped, 3 in. long, glabrous inside 
except dense brush-like hairs at the base, teeth deltoid, short ; 
petals oblanceolate, shaggy, veiny, longer than the calyx-teeth, 
zy in. long ; stamens 10, unequal, exserted, glabrous, inserted on 
the calyx-tube at different heights near its middle ; style glabrous, 
exserted rather beyond the filaments. 
Punco Anponco.—In thickets along the margins of Panda forests, 
near Luxillo, sparingly, only two specimens seen in fl. (and afterwards 
in vain sought for in fr.), end of Oct. 1856. No. 4308. 
Nearly related to Muandongolo (C. constrictum Laws.). 
7. C, racemosum P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. p. 90 t. 118 (1818) ; 
Guill. & Perr. Fl. Senegamb. p. 285, t. 67 (1833); Laws. in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 424. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A divaricately branched shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, 
rambling, scarcely scandent ; leaves thick but soft, clothed beneath 
with a whitish tomentum ; flowers purple. By secondary thickets 
between Trombeta and Cambondo, rather rare; fl. 19 Sept. 1854. 
No. 4299. A slender sarmentose shrub, much branched from the base, 
occasionally standing erect; branches very long, sometimes deflexed, 
sometimes scandent, or twisted and twining, aculeate ; prickles strong, 
. recurved, acuminate ; adult leaves brightly shining, green, the young 
leaves whitish-yellow or yellowish-tomentose ; flowers atro-purpureous 
or blood-red purple, subsessile ; bracteoles small, narrow, acute ; calyx 
clothed with short shaggy -downy hairs, the tube obtusely 4-angled, the 
limb funnel-shaped of elongate-campanulate, shaggy inside about the 
insertion of the stamens, naked and with a purple gloss at the base 
about the insertion of the style, mouth ciliate, 4-toothed, teeth from 
a broad base abruptly long-acuminate, erect; petals 4, obovate- or 
ovate-lanceolate, erect, mostly rather acute but occasionally hooded at 
the apex or folded or rather obtuse or quasi-spathulate, rather fleshy 
and rigid, glabrous inside, densely shaggy outside, more or less bearded- 
ciliate on the margin, atro-purpureous or yellow-reddish, much longer 
than the calyx-teeth ; stamens 8, very long, inserted in two rows, 
exserted, straight, radiately arranged ; style glabrous, straight, central, 
nearly as long as the filaments ; fruit smooth, 4-angled, green-reddish. 
In the drier thin hilly thickets near Bango Aquitamba and Bumba ; 
fl. and young fr. Sept., fl. and ripe fr. on the same branches Oct. 1855. 
No. 4353. 
Punco ANDonGo.—A sarmentose shrub, 4 ft. high ; fruit rose- 
