Rhoicissus] xl. ampelide^s. 157 



3. RHOICISSUS Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. (ii.) p. 463 

 (1887). Vitis Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 387 pro parte. 



1. R. erythrodes Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 465. 



Vitis erythrodes Fresen. in Mus. Senckenberg. ii. p. 284 (1837) ; 

 Baker in Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr. i. p. 401. 



Pungo Andongo. — A low very much branched shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; 

 stems with scar-like pustular rugosities ; tendrils puberulous ; leaflets 

 3, unequal, more or less rhomboid, the lateral ones smaller and oblique 

 at the base, deep green and rather glossy above, shortly f erruginous- 

 tomentose beneath, thinly coriaceous ; flowers whitish-yellow ; calyx 

 shortly cup-shaped, scarcely or somewhat toothed at the mouth ; petals 

 5 or rarely 4, thick, very rigid, ovate, shortly and gradually acuminate, 

 not cohering at the apex in a lid ; filaments flattened at the base ; disk 

 flattened out, including the ovary, strictly radiate on the face ; fruit 

 2-celled, glabrate, somewhat rugose, deeply 2- or 4-furrowed, 2- or 4- 

 gibbous ; cells 2-seeded. Common along thickets throughout the more 

 elevated rocky parts of the fortified region of Pungo Andongo, near 

 Caghuy ; fl. Feb. 1857, fr. April 1857. No. 1464. A widely scandent 

 shrub or undershrub, 4 to 5 ft. high, with elongated flowering tendrils 

 and closely clustered yellowish flowers. With No. 1464 ; fl. Feb. 1857. 

 No. 14646. 



Var. /3. ferruginea (Baker) Planch., I.e., p. 466. 



Pungo Andongo. — A pretty shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, widely scandent. 

 In hilly bushy places, near the banks of the river Cuanza in Sobato de 

 Bumba, not far from the great waterfall, Cachoeira de Condo ; fl. and 

 fr. March 1857, in company with two species of Protea. A broad- 

 leaved form. No. 1465. 



Huilla. — A robust, extensively climbing, intricately branched shrub, 

 quite clothing low trees ; trailing shoots hoary ; younger leaves rufous- 

 pubescent ; flowers dusky-yellow ; fruits when ripe brick-red, of the 

 size and shape of those of Juniperus Oxycedrus L. Not uncommon in 

 the lower woods and rocky thickets between Lopollo and Gambos, 

 especially at Catumba ; without fl. Feb. 1860 ; fl., and sparingly in fr. 

 April 1860 ; fl. May 1860. No. 1455. 



4. CISSUS L. Diss. Dass. p. 6 (1747), Sp. PI., edit. I, p. 117 

 (1753). Vitis Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 387 pro parte. 



1. C. palmatifida Planchon Monogr. Ampelid. p. 473. 

 Vitis palmatifida Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 397. 

 Pungo Andongo. — In the open rather deeply sandy parts of woods 



composed of Panda (Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir) near Luxillo; without 

 either fl. or fr. Oct. 1856. No. 1458. 



This is probably what was said by Baker, I.e., to be the above- 

 mentioned species or to be a closely allied species ; the leaves, however, 

 are not densely matted on .the lower surface, and the petioles are very 

 Bhort. 



2. C. morifolia Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 478. 



Vitis pallida Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 393 pro parte ; 

 non Wight & Am. 



Pungo Andongo. — A prostrate glaucescent herb, rather rigid, 

 running a long distance above the ground or subscandent. In bushy 

 dampish situations with tall herbage, along the banks of the river 

 Cuanza, near Candumba ; unripe fr. Jan. 1857. No. 1468. 



