Hilhria\ cm. PHYTOLACCACEiE. 901 



Lam. Encycl. Meth. vi. p. 215 (1804). R. secvnda Euiz & Pa v. 

 Fl. Per. i. p. 65. t. 102, fig. a (1798). R. lomceolata Willd. Enum. 

 Hort. Berol. Suppl. p. 8 (1813). R. acwminata H. B. & K. Nov. 

 Gen. ii. p. 184 (1817). R. affinis Nees & Mart, in Nov. Act. Nat. 

 Cur. xi. p. 30 (1823). R. wpetala Schum. & Thonn. in Danske 

 Vid. Selsk. iii. p. 104 (1828). Mohlana nemwaUs Mart., I.e., 

 p. 171. M. secunda Mart., I.e., p. 172. R. incequalis H.o6k. Ic. 

 PI. ii. t. 130 (1837). M. guineensis Moq. in DO. Prodr. xiii. 2, 

 p. 15 (1849) ; Welw. Apontam. p. 558, sub n. 134 (1859). 

 M. latifolia Moq., I.e., p. 16. Hillera secwnda 0. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 551 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — ^An undershrub, 1 to 3 ft. High, woody at the 

 base ; leaves dull green above, pallid beneath, repand-crenate ; the 

 young stem somewhat angular, becoming when older almost cylindrical 

 and woody ; petioles decurrent on the young stem in two hairy lines ; 

 calyx 4-cleft, petaloid and whitish rosy when young and during the 

 flowering, turning green and somewhat fleshy as the fruit ripens, 

 bilabiate, three of the segments representing the lower lip and the 

 fourth one the upper. In the primitive forest close to the banks of 

 the river Quango, in Sobato de Mussengne, about Sange, plentiful ; 

 fl. and young fr., Dec. 1854. No. 2440. In very shady places at the 

 cataracts of the river Quango and by streams in Mata de Quibanga, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr; Dec. 1855. No. 24406. 



2. PHYTOLACCA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 

 p. 84. 



1. P. dodecandra L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. p. 143. t. 69 (1789). 



P. abyssinica HofEm. in Comm. Gotting. xii. p. 25. t. 2 (1796). 

 Pircunia abyssinica Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 30 (1849) ; 

 A. Rich. n. Abyss, ii. p. 222 (1851). Pire. saponacea Welw. 

 Apontam. p. 558, sub n. 134 (1859); Oat. Sect. Portug. Expos. 

 TJnivers. Paris, p. 451. n. 12 (1867). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An undershrub, climbing high, with white- 

 yellowish flowers and scarlet fruits. In tall thickets near Trombeta, 

 fl. Sept. 1854, the var. latifolia A. Eich., I.e. ; in thin forests among 

 the Serra do Alto Queta mountains ; fl. and fr. March 1855. No. 2438. 

 A shrub, climbing far and wide ; branches long-sarmentose ; leaves 

 subglaucous, somewhat fleshy; flowers pale sulphur in colour, 

 arranged in long spikelike racemes ; berries scarlet ; fl. and fr. May 

 1855. Coll. Caep. 861. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, but little woody, climbing to the 

 height of 10 to 30 ft., not twining ; leaves herbaceous, glaucous-green ; 

 flowers white ; fruits scarlet. In rocky wooded places between Caghuy 

 and MutoUo, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1856. No. 2439. 



The negroes call this plant " Mutonga-Tonga," and they use the 

 leaves, when boiled or pounded, instead of soap for washing clothes, 

 but it is inferior to " Jindond6io," Solanum alhifolium Wright, ante, 

 p. 747. See Welwitsch, I.e. In the Paris catalogue, I.e., the plant is 

 placed among the medicinal specimens from Cazengo ; in the same 

 catalogue, p. 456, n. 63, " Mutonga-tonga," bark and leaves from the 

 district of Duque de Braganga, is said to be employed in dropsies and 

 in cases of retention of urine, and to be a drastic purgative ; Welwitsch 

 also noted that it is drastic in small quantities. 



