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7. DONAX Lour. Fl. Coch. Chin. i. p. 14. 
Clinogyne Salish. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 651. 
1. D. purpurea K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 440 
(1893); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr, v. p. 131. 
Clinogyne purpurea Rid). in Journ. Bot. 1887, p.132. Maranta 
discolor Welw. Synops. p. 43 (1862). 
GoLuneo ALTo,—A herb with perennial root, with several stems 
2 to 3 ft. high, erect, slender, clothed by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves $ 
to 1} ft., ovate or oblong-ovate, the larger 4 to 3 ft. broad, glaucous- 
green, and pinnately streaked with white above, with a white bloom 
beneath, and a broad green margin on one side. Flowers purple. 
Berry globular, smooth, the size of a rather small pea, generally 
2-seeded. Plentiful in primitive woods near rivers. In fl. and fr. 
Jan. and March 1855. Leaves covered beneath with a snow-like 
powder, except on the deep green edge of one side. Primitive 
woods at 2500 to 2800 ft. Feb. 1855. Flowers azure to almost 
blue-purple ; berry scarlet. Primitive forest of Quisuculo. In fi. 
and fr. March 1856. Native names, “ N-Subi,” “Tinsubi,” or “Subi 
Capele.” No. 6440. 
CazENGO.—Herhb 5 to 8 ft. high, lower surface of the leaves white. 
By mountain streams. Jan. 1855. Cou. Carp. 992. 
8. TRACHYPHRYNIUM Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 
PL. iii. p. 651. 
1, T. violaceum Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133; Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 132. 
Pungo AnpDonco.—A shrubby lofty climber, ultimately pendent, 
stems cylindrical, nodose, hard woody at the base, and } in. thick. 
Flowers fugacious, violet to purple, or bluish. Fruit a depressed 
triangular capsule, covered with bristly tubercles, 1 to 14 in. across, 
containing three one-seeded loculi, dehiscing by valves. Seeds sub- 
spherical, brown, the size of a hazel-nut, Leaves papery-rigidulous, 
glaucous-green when alive, elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate, with an 
obtuse or subcordate base, and an acuminate or cuspidate apex, the 
larger ? ft. long, 3 ft. broad. Somewhat rare in the primitive woods 
of Mutollo at 2500 and 3000 ft., and on the presidium itself at 
Barrancos de Catete and de Pedra Songue. In fl. Jan. in fr. April 
1857. No. 6441. Primitive woods of Sobato Galanga, in fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1855; and Quilombo-Quiacatubia. No. 64413, and CoLu. Carp. 
990. Cungulungulo, Cott. Carp. 988, 989. Without further locality. 
Cou. Carp. 994. 
9, PHRYNIUM Willd. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 652. 
1. P. textile Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133. 
Phyllodes textile Durand & Schinz, Consp, FI. Afr. v. p. 133. 
Gotunco ALTo.—A rather fine herb 5 to 6 ft. high; stems erect, 
hard, almost woody, petioles very long and rigid. Inflorescence red to 
scarlet. Native name “ Subigrande”; (subi=a textile plant). Plentiful 
near the rivers in the primitive woods of Quisuculo growing mixed 
with another species also called “Subi” by the blacks. [Pre- 
sumably Clinogyne purpurea Ridl.] In scarcely op?aed fl. Sept. 1855. 
No. 6439. 
