48 xiv. polygalacEjE. [Securidaoa 



Htjilla. — A shrub of 3 to 4 ft. with few branches, more rarely a 

 small tree of 6 to 10 ft. with dilated crown ; branches always divaricate, 

 occasionally spinous, flowers violet-purple ; in wooded stony bushy 

 places, at an elevation of 4500 ft., near Nene, but always sporadic, 

 fi. Oct. 1859, fr. Jan. 1860. No. 1033- 



2. S. WelwitscMi Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 135. 



Lophostylis JloribuTida Welw. Apont. p. 562. 



Golungo Alto. — A robust evergreen shrub, climbing up the tallest 

 trees and ornamenting their crowns with innumerable flowers and 

 filling the whole vicinity with very sweet fragrance ; stems usually 

 \ to | ft. in diameter at their base ; branchlets and even the thicker 

 branches glossy with a grass-green bark, smooth, the young ones 

 occasionally striate, the older ones reflexed- arched ; leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, glossy, flat, not revolute at the margin ; flowers variegated 

 with white and rose-colour ; calyx 5-sepalous, with three shorter 

 sepals and two large brilliant- white lateral ones ; petals 3, the front 

 one galeate-folded in the form of a keel, investing, the sexual organs, 

 white, rose-coloured at the apex ; the two back petals broadly linear, 

 fleshy, straight, rose-coloured at the base, at the apex brilliantly 

 sulphur-coloured and .truncate, shorter than the front one and over- 

 lying it in an imbricate manner, quite patent in full flower ; stamens 

 monadelphous, 8, ascending, combined into a vertically compressed 

 tube cleft in front ; filaments white, equal in height, free at the 

 apex ; anthers erectly fixed at the apex of the filaments, yellow, 

 apparently opening longitudinally with 2 or 3 pores ; ovary obcordate, 

 in the centre of the thick turgid annular disk, terminating in the 

 violet-coloured ascending style ; stigma shortly clavate-capitate, green, 

 papillose-viscid, usually bearded with the closely adhering and dried 

 up pollen. In the densest primitive forests alongside streams among 

 the mountains of Serra de Alta Queta ; fl. from 19 Mar. to June, f r. 

 from May to Sept. 1855-56, occasionally. No. 994. A stout shrub, 

 climbing 30 to 40 ft. high, with numberless very agreeably fragrant 

 flowers variegated with white and purple. Central Queta. Ripe fr. 

 June 1856. Coll. Carp. 231. 



On the living trunks of this species grew the Lichen No. 255. 



Var. /3 platyphylla Welw. ms. in Herb. A scandent shrub, 6 to 7 

 ft. high ; the upper part of the stem as well as the branches and 

 branchlets purple ; leaves broadly ovate, almost subcordate, thinly 

 coriaceous, constantly but narrowly revolute on the margin, brightly 

 glossy above, a little paler beneath. 



Golungo Alto. — In shady little woods, near N-dele (N-della), 

 rather rare ; fl. Feb. 1856. No. 995. 



The structure of the stem in this creeper is extremely curious, and 

 it appears to be a character in the genus ; for Dr. Kirk observed the 

 same arrangement of the vascular bundles in the wood of another 

 species from the Zambesi country. 



3. CARPOLOBIA G. Don; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 139. 

 1. C. alba G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 370 (1831); Oliv. PL Trop. 

 Afr. i. p. 135. 



Golungo Alto. — An evergreen shrub, not scandent, 3 to 8 ft. high, 

 repeatedly branched ; branches long, thin, spreading, leafy ; leaves 

 rather fleshy, subcoriaceous, bright green, with a long acumen at the 

 apex, regularly undulate at the margin ; flowers (in bud) apparently 



