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The fruit of this is the most appreciated of all the species of the 

 genus by the natives. The geographical range is nearly the same as 

 that of P. owariensis, and it occurs in nearly all the primaeval forests in 

 the interior of Angola, where at an elevation from 1500 to 2500 ft. 

 it is often met with ; it is a beautiful climber, with its snow-white, 

 jessamine-scented flowers and sweet acidulous fruit. 



3. P. crassifolia. 



Landolphia Pet&rsiana (Kl.), var. crassifolia K. Schum., I.e., 

 p. 408, as to Welvidtsch's No. cited, t. xii. fig. A. 



A robust shrub, widely climbing ; branches and peduncles- 

 becoming woody when old, very tenacious, dusky, puberulous or 

 glabrescent ; leaves dryly coriaceous, hard, rigid, oval or oblong, 

 nearly rounded or obtuse at the base, obtusely cuspidate at the 

 apex, subglabrous except the puberulous midrib beneath, deep 

 green and glossy above, paler and beautifully reticulate beneath, 

 3 to 4i in. long by IJ- to 2i in. broad ; lateral nerves patent, 

 numerous, delicate ; petiole i to f in. long, puberulous ; flowers 

 1|- to 1-| in. long just before expansion, whitish, very abundant, 

 salver-shaped, whitish, umbellate-capitate in terminal and axillary 

 retroflected or nodding pedunculate often quasi-cirrhiform panicles ; 

 calyx sub-campanulate, tomentellous outside, ^ in. long, with a 

 quinquefid limb ; the lobes sometimes unequal and distant, in 

 other flowers broader approximated and almost equal ; corolla- 

 tube straight or a little incurved, somewhat puberulous outside, 

 about 1 in. long or rather more, yellow at the base where it is 

 covered by the calyx, a little dilated and then narrowed and again 

 dilated about the situation of the anthers, the whole becoming 

 purple, shaggy inside above the stamens ; corolla-lobes obovate- 

 oblong, about i in. long, on one side bearded with long ciliate 

 hairs, snow-white, dextrorsely contorted in aestivation (as seen 

 from above) ; stamens placed below the middle of the corolla- 

 tube ; style firm, cylindrical, glabrous ; stigma capitate-clavate, 

 bilobed at the apex, about on a level with the anthers, the lobes 

 conical ; fruit baccate, as large as a good-sized pigeon's egg, 

 perfectly spherical, glaucous-green outside, yellowish inside when 

 ripe, softening, pulpy inside ; seeds embedded in the pulp. Native 

 name " Rituti (or Dituti) er4 ofele." 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the lower mountain forests of Queta, near 

 Cahunha, and in Sobato de Bumba ; fl. and fr. end of Oct. 1855. 

 No. 5927. Of. Coll. Carp. 194. 



4. P. parvifolia. 



Landolphia parmfolia K. Schum., I.e., p. 409, t. xii., fig. 0. 



HuiLLA. — A much-branched, climbing shrub ; flowers white ; fruit 

 edible, almost spherical, quite smooth outside (not rough as in the 

 other species), like a small orange in shape, but greenish-purple 

 outside. In the rocky wooded thickets of Morro de Lopollo, at an 

 elevation of 6300 ft, ; fl. April 1860 ; fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. The 

 negroes of the district call the fruit " Mahungo " ; it is also called by 

 the colonists " Maboca pequena." No. 5938. Shrubby, scandent ; 

 flowers pale yellow ; fruit spherical, 1 to 2 in. in diameter, pleasantly 



