154 XL. AMPELIDE^E. [Vitis 



except Cissus macropus, which is a dwarf tree occurring in 

 Mossamedes, and except Cissus Cwrrori Hook, f., a species from 

 Elephants' Bay, which was gathered by Curror, and on his 

 authority is described as a tree. But some species, as, for 

 instance, Bhoicissus erythrodes, cover low trees; and Cissus 

 aralioides and others cover high trees completely with their 

 climbing branches, especially in the district of Huilla. The 

 pliable stems of a few species are employed by the natives for 

 tying up articles for transport. As ornamental plants, those 

 with ferruginous foliage and those with quinquefoliolate various- 

 coloured leaves might be advantageously introduced. Leea tinc- 

 toria, of the island of St. Thomas, is used by the natives to make 

 a violet dye. 



See a paper by Dr. Welwitsch, read before the Linnean Society 

 of London, December 17, 1863, and published in the eighth volume 

 of the Journal of that Society, pages 75-77, in 1864. 



1. VITIS Tourn., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 387 pro 



1. V. vinifera L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 202 (1753) ; Baker in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 400 ; Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. in DO. Mon. 

 Phan. V. (ii.) p. 355 (1887). 



Pungo Andongo. — Frequently cultivated in vineyards near the 

 fortress at Caghuy in rocky and sandy situations ; without fl. or fr. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 1470. 



It is more rarely cultivated at Sange, in Golungo Alto, where it 

 flowers and fruits in January, but rather frequently near the city of 

 Benguella ; in the district of Mossamedes the cultivation is successful ; 

 the white grapes are well flavoured, but are often thick-skinned and less 

 aromatic than those grown in Portugal ; black grapes were not seen. 

 (See Welwitsch, Apontamentos, p. 553 under n. Ill, and Sert. Angol. 

 p. 9.) 



2. AMPELOCISSUS Planch, in Journ. la Vigne Amer. (1884) 

 p. 374. Vitis Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 387 pro parte. 



1. A. urenaefolia Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 385. 

 Vitis Schimperiana Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 395 pro 

 parte ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis p. 121 ; non Hochst. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub or a shrub, 2£ to 6 ft. high,, 

 either erect or with erect-nodding or inclined or decumbent stems or 

 sarmentose or more rarely scandent ; root woody, very thick ; stems 

 numerous, csespitose, purplish, rigid at least below ; tendrils rare ; 

 flowers clustered, dark red ; fruit ellipsoidal, as large as a moderate- 

 sized olive, juicy, edible, sweetish but a little acid, at first red, then 

 bluish-purple, when mature dark-purple or atrosanguineous. On the 

 ascent.to Pedra Cazella, in fr. 18 Dec. 1856 ; in grassy rocky thickets 

 near Luxillo, rather rare, flower-bud Jan. 1857 ; in elevated bushy 

 places, amongst the gigantic rocks at Pedra Cazella ; fl. Feb. and 

 fr. May 1857. Native name " Quixibua." No. 1456. A sarmentose 

 standard shrub, with apparently purplish flowers, sporadic ; in sandy 

 wooded situations near Luxillo ; flower-bud 18 Oct. 1856. No. 14566. 



