Volume 1
Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.
- British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
- Date:
- 1896-1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Gossyjnuru] (4) G. acuminatum Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 51 (1814); G. mUfolium Welw. Apoxitamentos, p. 590, n. 94. Loanda.—A shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high, branched from the base ; branches and branchlets green, not purple ; leaves and branchlets glabrous, very closely black-punctate ; leaves 1-glandular beneath, with acuminate lobes • flowers very large, of a deep sulphur colour ; capsules very large,' 3-valved ; cultivated rather sandy moist fields, near Quicuxe, Museque de Sr. Ricardo Silva Rejo, fl. and fr. beginning of March 1858; sent by Sr. Ricardo. No. 5227. Coll. Carp. 261. A shrub, 6 ft. high, branched from the base ; branches spreading-ascending ; leaves almost always 3-cleft, 1-glandular, one leaflet of the outer calyx glan- dular ; cultivated, Represa de Imbondeiro dos Lobos, fl. and young fr. end of July 1858 ; frequently cultivated in most of the districts of Angola, and almost everywhere wild at the back of dwellings, but no- where indigenous. Native name “Muxinha.” No. 5228. A shrub, 8 ft high, among plants of Euphorbia Tirucalli L., near Bemposta, fl. end of July 1858. No. 5234. Cazengo.—Flowers large, yellow ; cotton but little adhering to the seeds ; cultivated from seeds formerly introduced from Pernambuco ; here and there subspontaneous, but only sporadic ; in thickets by dwellings, near Cabonde Cacula ; fl. Jan. No. 5233. Mossamedes.—Garden of Senhor Bernardo de Figuerendo, August 1859, fl. and fr., grown from seeds sent from Pernambuco, and called by the colonists “ Algodad de pinha.” No. 5231. 11. ADANSONTA B. Juss. ex L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 209. 1. A. digitata B. Juss. ex L. Sp. PI. p. 1190 (1753); Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 212. Loanda.—In Boa Vista (Loranthus Mechowii parasitic on it), fl. April 1854. No. 5418. Alto das Cruzes, fl. Jan. 1859. No. 54185. A little tree, 4 ft. high, road near Samba grande ; foliage without fl. or fr. Nov. 1858. No. 5417. The latest foliage on the large trees at Samba grande 30 July 1854. No. 5419 ; fl. Feb. 1854. No. 54195. Seeds August 1854. Coll. Carp. 107. Imbondeiro dos Lobos, fr. August 1858 ; fr. 2 ft. by 5J in. by 4J in. Coll. Carp. 269. Golxjngo Alto.—Branch with foliage only. No. 5420. String locally manufactured from the inner bark in 1856. Coll. Carp. 270. Pungo Andongo.—Near the stronghold of Pungo Andongo, at Caluudo, fl. beginning of Feb. 1857, sparingly ; from Pungo Andongo towards the east this tree is rather rarely met with, and near Candumba up to Condo very rarely, in consequence of the elevation of this tract of country. Nosi 5415, 5416. Bumbo.—In the drier wooded places near Bumbo, rather rare ; more abundant in the rocky parts of the middle of Serra da Xella, at a place called Chao da Xella; altogether absent from the district of Huilla. (Ticket without specimen.) No. 4995. The name “ Imbondeiro,” by which Portuguese colonists in Angola call the Adansonia, is derived from the name “ N-Bondo,” which the natives give to this enormous tree ; it is common in nearly all the littoral and hilly regions of Angola. The natives prepare the inner hark for the manufacture of string. After having made sufficient incisions across the piece intended for preparation, they strip the bark from the stem in sheets of 3 to 5 ft. in length by 2 or 3 ft. in breadth ; this process is easily performed by reason of its spongy softness. After](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
