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obscurely 4-dentate or nearly entire or very narrowly fimbriate- 

 denticulate ; petals 4 or rarely 5 (in the same cluster), broad, rather 

 fleshy, cohering at the inflexed hooded apex, falling together ; disk 

 yellow, with 4 raised tubercles. Bare and sporadic, in rocky bushy 

 places in the more elevated parts among the gigantic rocks on the 

 western side of the fortified region of Pungo Andongo; fl. and young f r. 

 Feb. 1857. No. 1463. 



21. C. pendula Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 594. 



Vitis pendula Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 407. 



Pungo Andongo. — A low widely climbing perennial herb, from 1£ 

 to nearly 3 ft.; stem thick, juicy, fleshy, covered as well as the petioles 

 and peduncles with blood-red glandular pilose hairs, viscid ; leaves 

 herbaceous-fleshy, not coriaceous, rather rigid, bright-green above, 

 white- or whitish-tomentose beneath ; flowers whitish or yellowish, 

 reddening outside ; fruit ovoid, blood-red, pendulous. In rocky 

 thickets and stony bushy pastures and less abundantly on rocks, at 

 Caghuy and in other parts of the fortified region of Pungo Andongo ; 

 fl. and fr. from Oct. 1856 to April 1857. No. 1472. 



22. C. pruriens Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 595. 



Vitis pruriens Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 408. 



Hitilla. — An erect perennial herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, viscid-glandular 

 throughout ; hairs as well as the leaflets bright-green, terminating with 

 red glands ; stems several, sparingly branched ; petals whitish at the 

 base, blood-red from the middle to the apex ; fruit when ripe £ in. in 

 diam., bright red, with a pleasant acid-sweet taste, somewhat pendulous, 

 covered with stinging hairs which after mastication afflict for hours 

 the palate with a painful burning sensation. In wooded stony 

 meadows near Lopollo, in the direction of Monino, sparingly ; fl. and 

 fr. middle of Dec. 1859. No. 1454. 



23. C. Vogelii Hook. f. in. Hook. Niger Fl. p. 267 (1849); 

 Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 596. 



Vitis VogeUi Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 409. 



Golungo Alto. — Climbing to a considerable height ; leaves mem- 

 branous, with a velvety gloss ; unripe fruit blood-red. In thickets at 

 the base of the western mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, in the 

 direction of Quibolo ; fl. and unripe fr. March and June 1856. 

 No. 1482. An undershrub, climbing far and widely ; fruit grape- 

 shaped, black, as large as a good-sized pea, eaten by the negroes. 

 Sange ; fr. and seeds April 1855. Determination doubtful. Coll. 

 Carp. 339. 



24. C. stipulacea Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 597. 

 Vitis stipulacea Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 408. 

 Cazengo. — Inflorescence very viscid throughout ; fruit ellipsoidal, 



of a vinous-red colour. In the more arid stony thickets amongst 

 shrubs of Strychnos, at the left bank of the river Luinha, near 

 Muxaula ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 1490. 



Ambaca. — A widely climbing herb ; leaves 5-foliolate, paler beneath ; 

 flowers red. Sporadic, in thickets at the borders of woods, between 

 Zamba and the stream Lutete ; without fl. or fr. Oct. 1856. No. 1475. 



Pungo Andongo. — In damp tall-grassy places between the fortress 

 and Caghuy ; fl. and young fr. March 1857. No. 1471. 



Planchon, I.e., quotes Welwitsch No. 1450 for this species, probably 

 by error for 1490 



