674 Lxxxii. APOCYNACEiE. [Alafia 



3. A. sarmentosa Stapf, I.e., p. 123. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An evergreen, lactescent shrub, with the habit of 

 a jessamine, climbing widely, pendulous ; branches long, sarmentose, 

 encumbering bushes and the lower trees ; flowers whitish-rosy, very 

 agreeably vanilla-scented ; corolla salver-shaped, white ; the throat 

 somewhat bearded, blood-red ; the lobes of the limb ovate-lanceolate, 

 rather obtuse. In the less dense thickets among the Queta mountains, 

 above N-dele, rather rare ; fl. end of March 1856. No. 5965- 



15. ONCINOTIS Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 718. 



1. 0. hirta OKv. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiii. p, 25. t, 1232 (1878). 

 Motcmdra Welwitschiana Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 



p. 760 (1888). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust arborescent shrub, climbing far and high, 

 copiously lactescent, distinguished by the yellowish colour of all its parts 

 and covered with a felt composed of branched hairs ; the milky juice 

 very sour ; leaves pleasantly green in the living state, at length in the 

 dry state turning yeUow ; flowers from whitish to yellowish, almost 

 greenish ; corolla salver-shaped, spreading in a star at the time of the 

 open flower, of a pale sulphur colour ; the tube pentagonal at the base 

 where it is inserted outside a cyathiform disk 5-lobed at the mouth ; 

 lobes of the corolla-limb 5, lanceolate, rather fleshy ; the throat closed 

 with 6 comiculate appendages alternating with the lobes ; the tube 

 pilose within ; stamens 5, inserted a little above the base of the tube ; 

 filaments broad, very short ; anthers white, lanceolate, acuminate 

 at the apex, produced at the base into hyaline glands, adhering to 

 the style (or rather to the stigma), and so connivent ; ovary sessile 

 at the bottom of the disk, reaching higher than the cup of the 

 disk, ovoid-cyUndrical, 2- (or perhaps 3- or 4-) lobed at the apex, 

 pilose ; style central, 1, as high as the stamens, fusiform-thickened 

 upwards, inflated and stigmatose above, terminating at the apex 

 in a subulate not stigmatose appendage ; young follicles geminate, 

 shaggy-tomentose with a dusky felt. Along streams from Quilombo- 

 Quiacatubia towards the river Zenza, young fr. Feb. 1855 ; by the dense 

 thickets along the base of the mountains of Quilombo-Quiacatubia, also 

 in Queta, Ponte de Felix Simoes, fl. Dec' 1855 ; also by the tall 

 secondary thickets between Ponte de Luiz Simoes and Camilungo ; 

 fl. AprU and May 1855. No. 5956. 



2. 0. glabrata Stapf. ms. in Herb. 



Motcmdra glabrataBaiil. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. p. 760 (1888). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust, lactescent shrub, climbing rather high 

 and widely ; flowering branchlets nodding ; leaves coriaceous, shining; 

 flowers from green to yellow ; follicles conical, terminating at the 

 apex in a curved acumen. At the outskirts of the forest by the 

 Ambaca road ; fl. Feb., fr. June 1856. No. 6957. 



The follicles are fusiform, spreading, 3} to 4 in. long. The following 

 Nos. should be compared with this species, which appears to differ 

 but little from the original species of the genus, 0. nitida Benth., 

 though the foliage is scarcely so thin and the inflorescence rather denser. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A high-climbing lactescent shrub, with cylindrical- 

 conical follicles 3 to 4 in. long ; in the forests of the Queta mountains, 

 rather rare ; fr. 8 Oct. 1855. No. 5968. By the Capopa road ; without 

 either fl. or fr. May 1856. No. 69696- A robust, climbing shrub ; 

 flowers yellow ; follicles large, conical-cylindrical, opposite, spreading 



