Motandra] lxxxii. apocynace^. 673 



hooked at the tip, and comose seeds, should be compared with this 

 species ; there are not accompanying notes. 



13. ZYGODIA Benth. in Benth. <fe Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 716. 



1. Z. axillaris Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xii. p. 73, t. 1184 (1876). 

 GOLUNGO Alto. — A high-climbing shrub, with nodding branches 



and branohlets and deep yellow flowers. In Mata de Trombeta, fl. 

 Jan. 1855 ; also among the Queta mountains, young fr. May 1856. 

 No. 5960. In fr. No. 5963. Quibolo, without either fl. or fr. July 

 1856. Apparently this or an allied species ; leaves more oblong on 

 very short petioles. No. 5962. 



2. Z. urceolata Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 122. 

 GoLDNGO Alto. — In fl. No. 5961. 



14. ALAFIA P. Thouars; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 717. 



1. A. cuneata Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 122. 

 LoANDA. —No notes. In fl. No. 5954. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A sightly evergreen, robust, lactescent shrub, 

 widely climbing or, when young, usually standing erect and in that 

 condition flowering ; leaves thickly and dryly coriaceous, glossy, but 

 little paler beneath ; flowers innumerable, agreeably aromatic ; corolla 

 deep yellow, towards the throat as well as the velvety throat pleasantly 

 peach-red ; the lobes of the limb truncate in a rectangular manner, of 

 a whitish sulphur colour. In the dense forests of Alto Queta, rather 

 rare ; fl. June 1855. On the left-hand side of the Ambaca road ; fl.-bud 

 Dec. 1855. Also in the shady forests and in the secondary thickets of 

 Alto Queta and near Camilungo ; fl. and fr. end of Deo. 1855. No. 5953. 



2. A. eaudata Stapf, I.e., p. 123. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An evergreen, sparingly lactescent shrub, climbing 

 far and high, very multifarious in habit, resembling a jessamine ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, glossy, paler beneath ; flowers milk-white, 

 but little fragrant. In the dense mangue forests among the mountains 

 of Alto Queta : fl.-bud middle of Nov. 1855 ; fl. beginning of Dec. 

 1856. No. 5938. A lactescent shrub, climbing to a height of 15 to 

 25 ft. ; leaves glossy, evergreen ; flowers fragrant or but slightly so, 

 quickly turning brown ; calyx campanulate-quinquefid, green, the lobes 

 membranous on the margin ; corolla salver-shaped, milk-white (or 

 yellow ?) ; the limb 6-clef t, the segments ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 sinistrorsely contorted (as seen from above) ; the tube but little 

 inflated at the base, abruptly cylindrical, ventricose in the middle, 

 and thence up to the limb obtusely pentagonal, rather pilose at 

 the throat ; stamens 5, inserted at the ventricose part of the corolla- 

 tube, included ; filaments very short or almost obsolete ; anthers 

 lanceolate- (sagittate-) subulate, pilose at the base inside, connivent in 

 a pyramidal manner at their empty tips, very closely adhering to the 

 stigma, whitish ; ovary ovoid, sessile, reaching the level of the calyx- 

 lobes, green, obsoletely pentagonal, apparently bilocular and many- 

 seeded ; styles 2, closely coalescing into one central one ; stigma 

 fusiform ; disk 0. In the more elevated dense Paco (mangue) forests 

 (composed of Corynanthe. paniculata Welw. herb. n. 1508, ante p. 437), 

 and on their outskirts, among the mountains of the eastern Queta ; fl. 

 middle of Dec. 1855 and Feb. 1856. No. 5955. Queta mountains, in 

 p'rimitive forests. Without either fl. or fr. Sept. 1855. No. 6692. 



