672 Lxxxii. APOCYNACE^. [Stroplumthv^ 



at the base as thick as the middle finger, cylindrical-subulate, unisulcate 

 beneath, geminate at a very wide angle when not quite ripe. In low 

 forests between Cazella and Luxillo, sparingly ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 

 5926. An evergreen, twining, resinous-milky shrub ; bark verrucose ; 

 leaves coriaceous, deep green and rather shining above, whitish be- 

 neath ; corolla handsome, dilated-campanulate, white ; segments of 

 the limb rosy, without tails at the apex, reflected at the time of the 

 open flower ; ligules of the throat 10, linear-lanceolate, deep purple ; 

 stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, included ; anthers sagittate, 

 aristate at the apex, pyramidately surrounding the PteHMS-shaped 

 stigma in the excavation at its insertion on the style, follicles divaricate, 

 .B to 4| in. long, rather obtusely subulate, obtusely angular at the base, 

 subcompressed-bisulcate at the apex. In wooded thickets between the 

 praesidium and the river Cuanza, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. 16 Nov. 

 1856. No. 5991. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, as tall as a man ; branches at length elongated, 

 climbing ; bark minutely white-tuberculate ; flowers campanulate, 

 whitish, rosy inside on corolla-tube and ligules ; corolla-lobes not 

 appendaged at the apex, but bi-ligulate about the throat inside ; 

 follicles elongate-conical, tuberculate. In Morro de LopoUo fl. Dec. 

 1859. No. 5990. An evergreen, very beautiful, arborescent shrub or 

 small tree of 5 to 7 ft. ; branches sarmentose ; corolla whitish-rosy, 

 variegated with purple on the throat and ligules, the segments of the 

 limb scarcely caudate. In the forests of Cordicheira, LopoUo ; fr. Jan. 

 and May 1860. Coll. Carp. 22. Without locality or notes. Coll. 

 Carp. 1117. 



12. MOTANDEA Alpb. DO. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 715. 



1. M. guineensis Alph. DO. in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 423 (1844). 



Echites guineensis Thonn. ex Schum. in Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 

 iii. p. 169 (1828). E. 2Mniculata Thonn. ex Alph. DC, I.e., non 

 Poir. nee Roxb. 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing far and high, more or 

 less lactescent ; branchlets rufous- tomentose ; leaves closely resembling 

 those of a beech, deep green, chartaceous-herbaceous, glossy, almost 

 glabrous, somewhat pilose along the midrib and at the axils of the 

 lateral nerves ; flowers moderately abundant ; corolla whitish, quickly 

 withering, salver-shaped ; the lobes of the limb spreading at the time 

 of the open flower, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse ; corolla-tube naked 

 within, inflated at the base ; stamens 5, inserted at the base of the 

 tube ; filaments rather thick, curved inwards ; anthers sagittate, 

 closely adpressed to the stigma, comose at the apex ; hypogynous 

 glands 5, sordid-yellow, erect, flattened, truncate at the apex, lamelli- 

 form ; style seated on the hollowed apex of the ovary ovoid-fusiform 

 bifid at the apex and stigmatose nearly throughout (or the style short, 

 with a fusiform stigma bifid at the apex) ; ovary 2-celled, the cells 

 with many ovules. In thickets by the Ambaca road near Ponte de 

 Luiz Simoes (a very milky state of the plant) ; fl. end of Oct. 1855. 

 Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. and fr. 22 Oct. 1854 ; on the highest ridges 

 of the forests of Alto Queta (a sparing milky state) ; fl. beginning 

 of Nov. 1855. No. 5964. A very lactescent and extensively scandent 

 shrub ; leaves opposite, smooth ; flowers paniculate, white ; near 

 Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. and fallen fr. Oct. 1854. Seeds only, per- 

 haps belonging to this species. Coll. Carp. 723. 



Coll. Carp. 1118, consisting of follicles about 6 in. long shortly 



