Chondodendron] iv. menispermace^e. 17 



apiculate connective in the male flower, as well as by the fewer (6) 

 carpels in the female flower. 



The following extract may refer to this species : — 

 Mucuco. — By this name the negroes of Hungo and of Alta Queta (a 

 district of Golungo Alto and the country of the Mahungos) designate 

 a robust creeper of this Order, which in habit much resembles the 

 Abutua [Tiliacora chrysobotrya Welw.], but differs from Abutua in the 

 shape of its leaves, which are cordiform, and by the ferruginous velvet 

 with which its leaves and fruits are covered. The use which the 

 negroes make of this plant, the root as well as the leaves and fruit, is 

 exactly the same as of Abutua, although the latter is reputed by them 

 to be more efficacious, which quality must be attributed to the greater 

 proportion of resin which it contains in almost all its parts (Welw. 

 Synopse p. 46). 



4. TRICLISIA Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 39. 

 1. T. (?) Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A scandent shrub usually decumbent over other shrubs ; 

 branches terete, pilose-hispid, twining towards the extremities; 

 leaves ovate, obtuse or mucronate, broadly cordate at the base, 

 thinly coriaceous, tending to rigidity, glabrescent above, with 

 scattered pubescence beneath, entire, 5-7-nerved at the base, 

 3 to 3| by 2 to 2§ in.; petiole patent, pilose-pubescent, 1| to 

 1| in., curved near the apex. Male plant unknown. Female 

 flowers greenish, | in. long, broad, on short or unequal pedicels, in 

 axillary cymes scarcely as long as the petiole; sepals 12, obtuse, 

 imbricate, hairy at the back; the 3 outermost very small and 

 nearly equal, the next gradually larger; petals (innermost sepals?) 

 6, imbricate, small, obovate, glabrous on both surfaces but ciliate 

 round the margin ; stamens ; carpels 4, substipitate, half- ovate, 

 very densely pilose and surrounded by dense pilose hairs; style 

 lateral at the apex, glabrous, erect; fruit unknown. 



Pungo Andongo.— In very shady places of Mata do Pungo, very 

 rare, only one individual found in flower. No. 2309. 



In consequence of the male flowers and fruit being unknown, the 

 genus is doubtful ; T. subcordata Oliv. Fl. Trop. Air. i. p. 49, bears 

 a general resemblance to this, but it differs by more numerous carpels 

 as well as by other characters. 



5. SYIfCLISIA Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 36. 

 1. S. scabrida Oliv. ex Miers Contrib. iii. p. 371, t. 148 (1867); 



Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 49. 



Golungo Alto. — A climbing shrub or undershrub, with Meni- 

 spermaceous habit, but also resembling Dichapetalum, and in the dry state 

 suggesting Diospyros Barteri Hiern. Leaves opaque-green, dry, rigidly 

 chartaceous. Exterior sepals of the male flowers 6, lanceolate, densely 

 beset outside with elongated hairs ; interior sepals 3, twice the length 

 of the outer, thick-fleshy, almost coriaceous, united in a valvate manner 

 into a cup 3-lobed at the apex, minutely but densely crisped-pilose 

 near the united margins, otherwise glabrous. Stamens 9 ; filaments 

 united at the base ; anthers 2-celled ; cells didymous, longitudinally 

 dehiscing. A bundle of straight hairs in the centre of the filaments 



