158 XL. AMPELIDE^!. [OlSSUS 



3. C. suberosa Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 481. 

 Vitis suberosa Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 392. 



Pungo Andongo. — A robust scandent shrub, decking the loftiest 

 trees with a very dense crown ; when young simulating a Begonia with 

 equal-sided leaves ; the adult stem broadly corky -winged, very knotty 

 at the base, in the young state with acute angles and green-purplish. 

 In damp situations along streams, at the borders of the primitive forest 

 of Mata de Pungo, within the lines of fortification, rather rare ; Dec. 

 1856, fl. Feb. 1857. No. 1473. 



4. C. nymphseifolia Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 484. 

 Vitis nymphmifoUa Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 393. 



Huilla. — An ample firmly erect magnificent herb, 2 J to 4 ft. high, 

 sparingly branched, without tendrils ; stems and younger branches 

 as well as the inflorescence and the young leaves especially beneath 

 covered with a short ferruginous tomentum, the stems and adult 

 leaves above becoming nearly glabrous ; leaves simple, very ample, 

 cordate-orbicular, sub-peltate, petiolate, very obtuse, erose-dentate, 

 7-nerved ; flowers tetramerous, white-yellowish ; calyx cup-shaped, 

 shortly 4-lobed or 4-dentate ; petals cohering at the base, parting at 

 the apex, on the inside with a long hood and a deflexed appendage, 

 attached together when falling ; disk with 4 little horns or glands 

 which receive the filaments in the middle of the sinuses and are 

 emarginate-subtruncate at the apex ; ovary immersed in the disk at 

 the base, 2-celled, terminating in the thick conical style, stigma 

 truncate-capitate. In wooded herbaceous places with tall grass; 

 collected in a sally from Lopollo in the direction of Ohai ; fl. Feb. 1860 ; 

 near Catumba very sparingly with unripe fr. March 1860. No. 1448. 



The following No., without either flowers or fruits, somewhat 

 resembles this species, but the indumentum is pale-tawny, not 

 ferruginous ; the foliage suggests that of the tree Assonia 



Huilla. — An erect herb, 3 or 4 ft. high ; stems several from the 

 rootstock. In forests composed of Parinarium, Syzygium, Protea, etc., 

 along the river Monino ; Dec. 1859. No. 1450. 



5. C. Livingstoniana Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. p. 76 (1864). 

 G. rubiginosa Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 485. Vitis rubiginosa 



Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 394. 



Golungo Alto. — Not uncommon in dense secondary thickets among 

 tall herbage at the left bank of the river Cuango, between Sange and 

 Camilungo ; fl. and young fr. beginning of Jan. 1856. No. 1476. 



Pungo Andongo. — An elegant undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, covered 

 in all parts with beautiful copper-red rather shining tomentum of 

 variable thickness ; stem erect ; branches erect-patent ; flowers 

 yellowish. Growing in a csespitose manner in dry rocky elevated parts 

 of the stronghold of Pungo Andongo, at Pedra Cazella ; fl. April 1857. 

 No. 1466. 



6. C. Cffisia Afzel. Eem. Guin. p. 55 (1815) ; Planch. Monogr. 

 Ampelid. p. 485. 



Vitis ccesia Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 396 pro parte. 



Sierra Leone. — Whole plant rather fleshy, glaucous-pruinose, 

 rather rigid, brittle. In the more elevated woods above Freetown, on 

 Sugar-loaf Mountain ; with scarcely ripe fr. Sept. 1853. No. 1499. 



