20 iv. menispermace^e. [Stephania- 



peltate apex ; anthers 6, edging the peltate apex, transversely oblong, 

 simulating a 6-lobed stigma, transversely dehiscing, almost quite con- 

 tiguous or confluent. Sporadic in damp primitive woods at the banks 

 of the river Mamboa and of the stream of Oapopa ; in male flower 

 at the beginning of Dec. 1855. No. 2323. At the borders of primitive 

 woods about the base and in the elevated valleys of Cungulungulo ; not 

 yet in flower Feb. 1855. No. 2323J. 



Cazengo — A shrub with far and widely climbing, elongated, very- 

 tenacious, slender, flexuous stem, decking the neighbouring branches 

 of trees with a dense crown ; leaves large, peltate, of a pretty green 

 colour ; flowers yellow-greenish, bursting from the stem before the 

 appearance of the leaves, very caducous ; petioles with a rather fragile 

 attachment at their insertion. Sporadic in the very dense primitive 

 woods of Serra de Muxaiila, by streams ; a young plant in leaf without 

 flowers, and plants in flower but without leaves, Jan. 1855. No. 2325. 



Pongo Andongo. — A tall and widely climbing shrub, attaining 30 ft. 

 in length ; stems rope-like, and on that account frequently employed 

 for cords, at least for a, certain height, at the time of the flowering 

 when the leaves are absent. Bather rare in the primitive woods of 

 the fortress in the Mata do Pungo ; in flower without leaves Jan. 1857.. 

 No. 2324. 



From the want of female flowers and fruit, the determination of the 

 genus is uncertain. 



3. S. (?) cyanantiha Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A slender, rather flexuous, bright green, glabrous shrub, para- 

 sitical on Adansonia digitata L., monrecious (?), branched from the 

 base ; branches rope-like, pendulous, 3 to 6 ft. long, with distant 

 branchlets. At the base of the branches and also of the peduncles 

 are thick cartilaginous orange-coloured semi-orbicular scales. 

 Leaves deltoid-orbicular, or rarely reniform, usually pointed to- 

 wards the apex, rounded below, peltate, glossy, glaucous beneath, 

 chartaceous (in the dry state), entire repand or obsoletely angular, 

 2 to 3 by 1| to 2| in. ; petiole slender, 1£ to 2 in., inserted in 

 the lamina about 5 to ^ part about the base of the latter. Male 

 flowers numerous, small, deep-blue, arranged in small crowded 

 hemispherical pseudo-umbellate lateral cymes of ^ in. diam. on 

 the leafless branches ; common peduncle abbreviated ; sepals 6, 

 imbricate, broadly rounded ; petals 3 or 5, shorter than the sepals, 

 truncate, sometimes placed so near together as to form nearly a 

 shallow cup, sometimes occurring only on one side of the flower ; 

 anthers 6 to 9, transversely dehiscing, sub-confluent, inserted in 

 a peltate manner on a very short column. Ovary 0. Fruiting 

 cymes similar, 1 to I5 in. diam. Female flowers unknown. 

 Drupes (nearly ripe) reniform-orbicular or sub-reniform, ^ to ^ in. 

 diam., somewhat compressed, greenish, 1-celled, 1-seeded ; seed 

 reniform or somewhat horseshoe-shaped ; albumen scarcely any 

 or thinly mucilaginous ; cotyledons of the same shape as the seed, 

 flat, obliquely obovate, very tender ; radicle short. 



Pungo Andongo. — Parasitical on old branches of Adansonia, near 

 Calunda, within the fortress, but very rarely met with ; leafy branches 

 in fruit in Jan. 1857, and leafless branches in male flower on the same 

 Adansonia in May 1857. No. 2321. 



