714 Lxxxvi. BORAGiNEiE. [Cordia 



5. C. longipes Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 27, 



GoLTiNGO Alto. — A strong tree, 20 to 30 ft. high ; branches patent, 

 as well as the branchlets and leaves sometimes scattered, sometimes 

 ternate ; leaves very large, deciduous, very rough abov^, discolorous ; 

 calyx tubular, densely lepidote-tomentose outside, bursting at the 

 apex into 2 to 4 very unequal teeth, obscurely 10- to 12-f urrowed ; 

 ■corolla sulphur in colour ; the tube exceeding the calyx ; the limb 

 rotate, 6- to 7-cleft ; the lobes soon reflected, obovate or oblong ; 

 stamens 5 or 6, inserted at the corolla-throat, alternate with the 

 lobes of the limb ; ovary ovoid-conical, acuminate at the apex, 

 alternate at the apex into the style ; style bipartite almost to the 

 base, the branches bifid to the middle, the branchlets thickened 

 upwards and stigmatose ; fruit drupaceous, grape-shaped, an inch long, 

 yellowish, ovoid-conical, mucronate at the apex, seated on the hardened 

 ashy cupulif orm calyx. In primaeval forests among the mountains of 

 Sobato de Bumba, etc. ; in late fl., 19 Nov. 1855. No. 6428. Flowers 

 from whitish to yellowish ; fruit grape-shaped, yellow. At TJndelle ; 

 fl.-bud, Feb. 1856. No. 6432. A tree of 20 to 25 ft. or usually a 

 small tree of 6 to 10 ft. ; flowers yellow ; drupes like a cherry in size 

 and shape, sulphur-coloured, very viscid with a dense mucus, turgid, 

 monopyrenous by abortion ; seeds 2 or 3. In secondary woods near 

 Sange ; ripe fr. July 1857. Perhaps this species. Coll. Oakp. 754. 



The following No., represented by a leafy shoot, should be 

 ■compared with this species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A moderate-sized tree, with the habit almost of 

 a Ficus, a dilated head, and spreading branches. In the forest at 

 N-delle ; without either fl. or fr. June 1855. No. 5466. 



6. C. abyssiniea E. Br. in Salt Abyss. App. iv. p. Ixiv (1814), 

 name with reference; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 80 (1851). 



Varronia abyssiniea DC. Prodr. ix. p. 469 (1845). 



Var. yS. acutifolia A. Rich., I.e. 



Golungo Alto. — A lofty tree, very ornamental in flower ; trunk 

 2 to 2^ ft. in diameter at its base, usually ascending ; flowers white ; 

 calyx 10-ribbed, normally and unequally bursting at the apex ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, very thin in texture, the limb somewhat 5-lobed, lobes 

 ■obcordate ; stamens 5, inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments from a broad base filiform above, bearded at the middle 

 with hyaline pilose hairs ; anthers incumbent, oblong-cordate, 2-celled, 

 the cells laterally dehiscent ; ovary free, surrounded with a tender 

 <!upuliform membrane ; ovules few ; style elongated, bilobed above 

 the middle, the branches again divided, so that there are 4 ligulate 

 stigmas. At the banks of the river Quiapoze, rather rare : fl. 17 May 

 1855. No. 6433. 



The two following Nos., represented by leafy shoots or foliage 

 ■only, should be compared with this species and also with the 

 Kilimanjaro plant C. Holstii Giirke in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, 

 p. 335, t. 41 (1895). 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree with the habit almost of Papyrius 

 japonica Poir., one of the plants called by the natives " Quibosa 

 Camuohito," that is, " Quibosa of the woods," a name which is applied 

 to various trees, shrubs, and even herbs, that serve for the manufacture 

 of ropes. Banga do Sobato de Quilombo ; without fl. or fr. Jan. 1855. 



