Acalypha] cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. 977 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, sparingly 

 and patently branched towards the apex ; female flowers sometimes 

 above, sometimes below the male flowers. In moist thickets near 

 Trombeta ; fl. Sept. 1854. No. 439. A perennial herb or an under- 

 shrub or sometimes a shrub, 2 to 4 or rarely 5 ft. high, with quite the 

 habit of an Urtica ; stem erect, sparingly branched at the apex ; 

 branches spreading, virgate ; leaves bright green, patent and nearly 

 pendulous or deflected-pendulous while others are fasciculately erect. 

 Male flowers below, reddish, with 8 to 6 white anthers ; filaments of 

 the stamens hyaline, flattened, transversely and very closely septate, 

 somehow elastic ; the stamens on the opening of the perianth are 

 slowly elongated by the extension of the septa and spread upon the 

 limb of the perianth in the form of a star, but at the slightest touch 

 they spring against the centre of the flower, and therefore just reversely 

 to the case of Pilea in which on the centre of the flower being touched 

 the stamens spring against the circumference. Female flowers congre- 

 gated in blood-red comose spikes. At the outskirts of thickets in 

 moist shady places nearly throughout the district, plentiful, flowering 

 and fruiting from October to March ; near Sange, N-delle, Fundo 

 Cacarambola, and in Mata de Quibanga in Sobato Mussengue ; fl. Dec. 

 1855 and March 1856. No. 438. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A patently branched undershrub of 3 ft. high 

 or a shrub 4 to 6 ft. high ; flowers greenish, unisexual, the male flowers 

 on the upper part of the plant. In rocky places at the outskirts of 

 forests in the prsesidium, sporadic ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 437. 



5. A. WelwitscMana Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 334, and 

 in DC, I.e., p. 834. 



Ricinocarpus Welwitschianus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 618. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, branched sparingly and 

 only at the apex. At the outskirts of forests among tall herbs, near 

 Luxillo ; fl. Jan. and Feb. 1857. No. 433. 



6. A. angolensis Muell. arg. U.ec., pp. 335, 835. 

 Ricinocarpus angolensis O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 617. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect, sparingly branched undershrub, 4 ft. 

 high. In thickets at the outskirts of the forest near Catete in the 

 presidium ; female fl. Feb. 1857. No. 434. 



7. A. polymorpha Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 335, and 

 in DO., I.C., p. 835. 



Ricinocarpus polymorphus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 618. 



a, elliptica Muell. arg., ll.ce. 



HuiLLA. — In hilly sandy-schistose sparingly bushy places covered 

 with sand, near Lopollo, in company with species of Thymelseaceae 

 (cf. Gnidia Hoepfneriana G-ilg. ; Welw. herb. no. 6479) and Irideae ; fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1869. No. 429. 



yS, sericea Muell. arg., lice. 



HuiLLA. — In rather dry rocky thicket near Mumpulla, sparingly ; 

 fl. Oct. 1859. Only one specimen preserved. No. 421. 



■y, oblongifolia Muell. arg., ll.cc, pp. 335, 836. 



HuiLLA. — In pastures decked with species of Clematis (cf. C. chryso- 

 earpa Welw. herb. no. 1222) and Thymelasacese (cf. Gnidia Rendlei ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 6478), among low bushes, between Lopollo and Ferrao 

 da Sola, very sparingly ; fl. Nov. 1859. No. 428. 



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