Acali/pha] cxv. EUPHORBiACEiE. 979 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In neglected plots of cultivation throughout the 

 district, plentiful, especially near Sange and Camilungo ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1855. No. 419. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In a kitchen garden in the prsesidium ; fl. and 

 fr. end of Jan. 1857. No. 418. 



12. A. segetalis Muell. arg, in Journ. Bot., I.e., p. 336, and in 

 DC, I.e., p. 877. 



Bidnocarpus segetalis O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 618. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — ^In somewhat shady places among low herbs at 

 the banks of the river Cuango near Sange ; fl. June 1856. No. 440. 

 In neglected fields after crops of Arachis hypogcea L., near Sange, 

 only one specimen ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1855. No. 389. Among crops 

 of Arachis hypogcea L., plentiful, especially near Camilungo ; fl. and fr. 

 Jan., March, and May 1855. No. 416. 



Ambaca. — An annual herb ; the principal stem erect, the lower 

 ones ascending. Among plantations of Phaseolus and Arachis hypogcBi 

 L., nearly throughout the district ; near Ambaca, fl. and fr. Sept. 1856. 

 No. 4166. 



26. ALCHORNEA Swartz; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 314. 



1. A. floribunda Muell. arg. in Flora, 1864, p. 435, and in DO. 

 Prodr. XV. 2, p. 905 (1866). 



P, glabrata Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 336 (1864), and 

 in DC, I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub, 7 to 9 ft. high, perhaps arborescent ; 

 stem and branches elongated, slender, purple ; male and female flowers 

 very bright red-scarlet ; style elongated, erect : capsules 3- or rarely 

 4-cocoous. In the dense forest close to the cataract of Mata de 

 Cabondo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1867. No. 352. 



2. A. eordata Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 507 (1849) ; non 

 Muell. arg. (1866). 



Sehouahcea cordifoUa Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. 

 Selsk. iv. p. 223 (1829). A. cordifoUa Muell. arg. in Linnsea, 

 xxxiv. p. 170 (1865), and in DC, I.e., p. 908 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 257 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An arborescent shrub 8 to 12 ft. high or a small 

 tree of 10 to 15 f t. , sometimes standing erect, in other cases subscandent 

 with long virgate sarmentose branches ; leaves coriaceous, shining, 

 glandular at the base of the nerves ; flowers dioecious, paniculate, 

 yellowish ; panicles mostly springing from the trunk or older branches, 

 drooping-pendulous ; fruit elongated-didymous ; seeds wrapped in a 

 scarlet arillode. In damp places by wooded thickets and close to 

 streams throughout the district, plentiful ; at the rivulet Quiapoze 

 near Sange ; nearly ripe fr. end of Nov. 1855, and female fl. Sept. 1856 

 about Sange and Bango, fl. and fr. Aug. and Oct. 1855 and Aug. 1856 

 Terras de Bumba, fl. beginning of Aug. 1856. Native name " Dunce 

 or " Bunce." A black dye is prepared by the negroes by baking this 

 plant mixed with the mud of a stream. No. 379. The Lichen n. 261 

 grew on the leaves of this plant at the stream Quiapoze near Sange 

 in March 1855. 



Prince's Island. — A shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high, with numerous stems 

 at the base. In sandy seaside thickets near Bahia de S. Antonio ; 

 unripe fr. Sept. 1863. No. 378. 



