454 LXIX. RUBIACER. [Musseenda 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—A graceful shrub, climbing to a great height ; by 
far the most beautiful of African shrubs: upper. part of the stem. 
clothed with spreading hairs ; leaves rather obtuse or even in some 
cases subcordate and occasionally attenuate at the base, very bright 
green on the upper face, pale glaucous-green and hispidulous-hirsute 
on the purple nerves beneath ; stipules ovate, acuminate ; calyx beset 
throughout with rather rigid substantial hairs rather dense on the 
nerves of the lobes and elsewhere comparatively distant, one lobe 
developed into a very large bright scarlet-blood-red lamina ; outer face 
of the corolla similarly beset with rather rigid substantial hairs ; 
corolla-limb coloured pallid-orange inside; the throat quite closed 
with whitish-sulphur-coloured, long, rigid, very dense, exserted hairs ; 
ripe fruit baccate, oblong, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes ; 
seeds very numerous, minute, lenticular, black, flattened, scrobiculate- 
scabrid, embedded in pulp. In moist wooded places in Sobato de 
Bumba; fl. 12 Dec. 1854 ; also in primitive forests and in neighbour- 
ing thickets in Sobato de Quilombo-Quiacatubia, and about Bango 
Aquitamba, abundant ; fl. and fr. Jan. to May 1855. From 2000 to 
3000 ft. alt. Negro name “ Dilula,” “ Dilula-Riula,” or “ Diluia,” or 
“ Alleluia.” No. 1116. Mata de Quisucula ; fr. July 1856 and 1855. 
Cox, Carp. 141. Calyx-lobes very large, brilliantly scarlet ; corolla 
of a deep sulphur colour. In the forest of Sobato Quilombo, Queta, 
Mussengue, and Bango; fr. June 1855. CoLu. Carp. 638 and 639. 
Punco ANDoNGo.—A climbing shrub of 5 to 6 ft. ; enlarged calyx- 
lobe purple. In rocky thickets at the borders of the primitive forest 
of Mata de Pungo within the presidium, rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1857. 
No. 1115. 
The flowering branches of this beautiful climber were used by the 
missionaries at Bango Aquitamba to ornament the church of the 
mission at Easter. The inflorescence much resembles that of Euphorbia 
pulcherrima in brilliancy and floral effect ; and it sometimes almost 
completely covers low trees with its glowing garlands. 
5. M. elegans, Schum, & Thonn., d.c., p. 137; Hiern, Zc. 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—A sarmentose climbing shrub, with membranous 
leaves, deep-cinnabar-red flowers, and deciduous calyx-limb. In the 
thickets of primitive forests among the mountains of Alto Queta, 
sporadic ; fl. and fr. March and April 1856. No. 1119. A scandent. 
shrub, with bright-green leaves paler beneath and with deep-scarlet 
flowers ; at Capopa, fl. Feb., fr. March 1856. Con. Carp. 637. 
13, SABICEA Aubl.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 72. 
1. 8. venosa Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 399; Hiern in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, p. 77. 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—A twining shrub ; stem slender, 6 to 9 ft. long, 
furrowed, angular, turning blackish-red; leaves herbaceous, rather 
rigid, opaque-green above, becoming whitish beneath, with the reddish 
nerves covered with white rigid hairs adpressed in lines ; calyx-tube 
produced above the ovary, including the tubular truncate obtusely 
pentagonal disk; calyx-lobes foliaceous, green, long-ciliate on the 
margin ; corolla whitish outside, the tube bright red, sparingly pilose 
inside, more densely pilose at the throat; segments of the limb 
bearded with long white hairs ; ovary 4- or rarely 5-celled, adnate to 
the lower part of the calyx; style included in the corolla-tube; 
stigma deeply divided into rather flat lobes. In thickets and reed- 
beds along the base of the mountains of Queta; fl. 8 Oct. 1855. 
