Strychnos] lxxxiv. LOGANiACEiE. 703 



insects. In the more open forests at the base of Alto Queta, sporadic ; 

 fr. June 1855 ; fl. Dec. 18,')5. No 4769. At Dalatanda, June 1855 ; 

 said to be in fr. No. 4775. A tree, V> to 15 ft. high ; trunk 9 in. in 

 diameter at the base, very rarely 12 in. ; fruit shaped like an orange ; 

 pulp edible, acidulous-sweet. In the Luinha valley ; fr. 27 July 1856. 

 Coll. Cahi'. 742. " Maboca doce," 1856. Fr. depressed-globose 

 2^- to 3J in. in diameter. Coll. Cakp. 743. 



This must be compared with the last species, of which perhaps it 

 may prove to be only a varying form ; the calyx-segments in our 

 specimens are rather longer than in the type of Gilg's species. Those 

 specimens which are without flowers are still more doubtfully referred. 



3. S. Welwitschii Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 573 (1893). 

 <S'. suhscandens Baker in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 96 (June). S. loan- 



densis Baker, S. microcarpa Baker, S. lucens Baker, I.e., p. 97. 



B.ARRA DO Bengo and Loanda. — A shrub with fruit not poisonous 

 like Nux- Vomica. Between Quicuxe and Oacuaco ; fr. March. 

 No. 4765. In young leaf and fl.-bud. No. 6016. A climbing shrub. 

 At Loanda ; fl. and unripe fr. Jan. 1858. No. 6017. A subscandeat, 

 evergreen shrub ; unripe fruit ovoid-spherical or oblong, obliquely 

 ventricose, green-glaucescent. In the more elevated hilly rocky 

 somewhat woody places near Quicuxe ; young fr. May 1854. No. 6018. 

 A robust shrub, usually in the form of a small tree ; branches divaricate, 

 sarmentose ; the sarmentose branchlets virgate, often climbing, densely 

 warty, cirrhose ; the tendrils bifid, with the bifurcations hooked, 

 thickened in the middle ; leaves coriaceous, glossy ; fruit spherical, 

 resembling a small orange in shape and colour, 1^ to 2 in. in diameter, 

 harmless, edible. By thickets in dry hilly places in the Loanda 

 country, as, for example, at Museque de Senhor Schut ; young fr. 

 April ; ripe fr. July 1864. Native name " Maboca." No. 6015. 

 Fruit li in. in diameter. No. 4766. A very elegant shrub ; branches 

 subsoandent ; leaves evergreen ; stipules becoming woody, recurved ; 

 fruit precisely resembling an orange. Near Loanda ; seeds Jan. 1854. 

 Coll. Carp. 745. A shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high, much branched, evergreen ; 

 tendrils simple, circinate-hooked. In bushy places near Quicuxe and 

 Mutollo ; young fr. May 1854. Coll. Carp. 746. 



The specimens from the carpological collection, consisting only of 

 seeds or young fruits, are doubtfully referred here. 



The following Ifo. perhaps belongs to this species, but the leaves 

 are prolonged at the apex into a long narrow acumen : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A climbing shrub, not lactescent ; wood hard ; 

 leaves coriaceous ; fruit reddish. Near Fundo de N-deUe, in an Acacia 

 forest ; fr. March 1856. No. 4774. 



The following No., of which the material is very scanty, has 

 flowers with a long minutely puberulous style and small ovate 

 leaves ; it should be compared with S. Wehvitschii :- - 



Baera do Dande. — An apparently evergreen shrub with the habit 

 of the order, the leaves falling off in the course of drying. In hilly 

 bushy calcareous places near Barra do Dande ; only one specimen with 

 a few fl. Nov. 1853. No. 1260. ^ 



4. S. angolensis Gilg, I.e., p. 571. 



PUNGO Andongo, — In fl. and fr. No. 6020. An arborescent; 

 shrub ; trunk more or less curved or even twisted, 4 to 5 in. in 



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