Parkia] xliv. leguminosje. 305 



80. PARKIA Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 588. 



1. P. intermedia Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. p. 324; Benth. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soo. xxx. p. 361 (1875); Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 172 (1884). 



Island of St. Thomas.— A tree about 30 ft. high, with very elegant 

 crown. In mountainous situations, at the skirts of the forests of 

 Monte Caffe, not common ; fr. and with remains of fl. end of Dec. 

 1860. Native name "Luba" or "Luva." No. 1788. A tree about 

 25 ft. high or more, with broad spreading crown ; leaves like those of 

 a Mimosa ; flowers rose-coloured, very densely clustered about a fleshy 

 globose receptacle cylindrical at the base. In primitive forests ; fr. 

 end of Dec. 1860. Coll. Carp. 503. 



2. P. filicoidea Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 324 ; Benth., 

 I.e., p. 361 (1875); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 172 (1884). 



Parkia (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 576 (1859). 



Pungo Andqngo. — A large handsome tree ; trunk straight, 3 to 4 ft. 

 in diam., 30 to 40 ft. high or more ; crown dilated, at the time 

 of flowering leafless or sparingly leafy with fresh leaves ; branches 

 patent ; leaflets hard-coriaceous, in shape like those of an Adiantum ; 

 flowers red, densely packed with interposed bracteoles on clavif orm long- 

 pedunculate pendulous receptacles ; the odour of the opening flowers 

 vinous-empyreumatic and penetrating a long distance. Legumes 1 to 

 1£ ft. long ; seeds not seen, being eaten by monkeys. Sporadic, in the 

 primitive forest of Mata de Pungo ; in foliage Jan., fl. Feb. and April. 

 No. 1787. Old fr. end of May 1857. Coll. Cakp. 504. 



Cf. Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, vol. i. pp. 221, 267, 444, vol. ii. 

 p. 339 ; and P. Hennings in Engl. Deutsch-Ost-Afrika, B. p. 191' (1895). 



81. GIGALOBIUM P. Browne, Hist. Jam. p. 362 (1756). Entada 

 Adans. Fam.Pl.ii. p. 318(1763) ; Benth. & Hook. f.Gen. PL i. p. 589. 



1. 6. scandens. 



Entada Gigalobium DC. Prodr. ii. p. 424 (1825). Mimosa 

 scandens L. Sp. PL edit. 2, p. 1501 (1763). E. scandens Benth. in 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 332 (1842), and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 

 p. 363 (1875); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 325; Ficalho, PL Uteis, 

 p. 172 (1884). Entada (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 576 under n. 176. 

 Pusmtha scandens O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 204 (1891). 



Goltjngo Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing high and widely ; trunk 

 9 in. in diam. at the base ; branches slender ; leaflets glaucous-green ; 

 flowers from white-yellowish to yellow-ochre ; fibre textile, suitable 

 for ropes ; pods gigantic, about 2£ ft. long when nearly ripe, and 

 reaching 3 to 4 ft. long when fully grown, by far the largest of all 

 legumes, spirally twisted, coriaceous, jointed ; joints 1-seeded. In the 

 primitive forests of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, sporadic ; 

 fl. and young fr. Jan. 1856 ; and again in the Eastern Queta, fl. middle 

 of July 1856. Native name "Fuse" or " Fugi," hence " Qaifuge." 

 A native of Cabinda called it "Entada." No. 1779. At Trombeta; 

 seed July 1857. Coll. Caep. 505. 



The large flat seed of this plant is a common fetish or charm to hang 

 from the neck (see Monteiro, Angola, vol. i. p. 249, 1875). 



2. G. abyssinicum. 



Entada abyssinica Steud. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 520 ; 

 A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 234 (1847); Oliv., I.e., p. 327; Benth. in 



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