jVuxia] LXXXIV. LOGANIAGE^. 701 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; branches spreading, 

 tortuous ; leaves coriaceous ; flowers white. In wooded places at the 

 river Tangne, sporadic ; fl. end of May 1857. No. 5678. 



Grows also among the high mountains of Dembos ; its wood has a 

 very fine grain, white, and compact, and is well adapted for turnery ; 

 the tree however is not very plentiful, and occurs in stations difficult of 

 access. (See Welwitach, Synopse Explic. p. 8, n. 8.) 



3. BTJDDLEJA Houst. ex L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 793 {Buddeia). 



1. B. madagascariensis Lam. Encycl. Mdth. i. p. 513 {Budleia) 

 (1783) ; Melliss, St. Helena, p. 298 (1875). 



Island of St. Helena. — A slender, climbing shrub, with the habit 

 almost of Verbenaceas, but with the structure rather of Scrophulariacese ; 

 branches and branchlets branny-felted, whitish-flocoose ; flowers herma- 

 phrodite, deep orange in colour ; calyx tubular-campanulate, quadri- 

 dentate at the mouth ; corolla-tube straight, somewhat salver- shaped, 

 exceeding the calyx, shaggy within ; the limb 4- or very rarely 5-cleft, 

 with obovate-oblong lobes spreading horizontally ; stamens 4, inserted 

 in the sinuses alternate to the corolla-lobes ; anthers scarcely protruded 

 beyond the corolla-tube, erect, bilocular, dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 ovary ovoid, free ; placentation central, multi-ovulate ; style solitary 

 filiform, terminating in a thick oblong-spathulate rather viscid stigma, 

 falling a little short of the anther-tips ; filaments very short or almost 

 obsolete. Cultivated at Loanda in the garden of Senhor Gabriel ; 

 fl. Sept. 1858. No. 4762. 



4. ANTHOCLEISTA Afzel. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 795. 



1. A. macrantha Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 57-8 (1893). 



A. nobilis Welw. Apontam. p. 549, under n. 90 (1859) ; perhaps 

 not of G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 68 (1837). A. Vogelii Ficalho, 

 PL Uteis, p. 223 (1884); perhaps not of Planch, in Hook. Ic. PI. 

 t. 793-4 (1848). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree, in habit resembling in its youth an elegant 

 palm, repeatedly and dichotomously branched, attaining in the primitive 

 forests a height of 50 ft., and bearing at the extremities of its branchlets 

 tufts of gigantic leaves, from the centre of which proceeds the flowering 

 corymb of 3 ft. or even longer ; flowers handsome ; corolla pale sulphur 

 in colour, fleshy-coriaceous, brittle, thrown ofE in a few hours or usually 

 within a quarter of an hour after its complete expansion from the 

 investing calyx, quickly rotting after its fall ; the limb 13- to 15-cleft, 

 the lobes contorted in aestivation, spreading in a rotate manner when 

 fully expanded ; stamens equal in number to the corolla-lobes ; capsule 

 as large as a small walnut. In the primitive forests of the Sobatos of 

 Quilombo, Bumba, and Queta ; in the secondary woods the trees are 

 lower, 20 to 25 ft. high, with broader foliage ; fl. and young fr. March 

 1856 ; fl. March and April 1856 ; a young ti'ee, without fl. or fr. July 

 1856. Native name " Quipuoulo-puculo." No. 6021 and Coll. Caep. 

 741. Sobato Quilombo, young foliage, Feb. 1855. No. 6021J. 



PuNGO Akdongo. — In damp forests at the banks of the river Lombe ; 

 a tree-like shrub or young tree, without fl. orfr. March 1857. No. 6022- 



This tree, with its very peculiar habit, abounds in the woods of the 

 mountainous region, and forms one of the chief features of the virgin 

 forest. 



