Volume 5

Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.

  • British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
Date:
1896-1901
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Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. DONAX Lour. FI. Coch. Chin. i. p. 14. Clinogyne Salisb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 651. 1. D. purpurea K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 440 (1893); Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. p. 131. Clinogyne purpurea Ridl. in Jpurn. Bot. 1887, p. 132. Maranta discolor Welw. Synops. p. 43 (1862). Golungo Alto.—A herb with perennial root, with several stems 2 to 3 ft. high, erect, slender, clothed by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves 4 to 1^ ft., ovate or oblong-ovate, the larger ^ to § 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. Jar. 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 fl. and fr. March 1856. Native names, “N-Subi,” “Tinsubi,” or “Subi Capele.” No. 6440. Cazengo.—Herb 5 to 8 ft. high, lower surface of the leaves white. By mountain streams. Jan. 1855. Coll. Carp. 992. 8. TRACHYPHRYNIUM Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 651. 1. T. violaceum Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 132. Pungo Andongo.—A shrubby lofty climber, ultimately pendent, stems cylindrical, nodose, hard woody at the base, and f in. thick. Flowers fugacious, violet to purple, or bluish. Fruit a depressed triangular capsule, covered with bristly tubercles, 1 to H 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, ^ 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. 64415, and Coll. Carp. 990. Cungulungulo, Coll. Carp. 988, 989. Without further locality Coll. Carp. 994. J 9. PHRYNITJM Willd.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 652. 1. P. textile Ridl. in Journ. Bot. 1887, p. 133. Phyllodes textile Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 133. Goluxgo Alto.—A rather fine herb 5 to 6 ft. high ; stems erect, hard, almost woody, petioles very long and rigid. Inflorescence red to scarlet. N ative name “ Subigrande ”; (mbi = a textile plant). Plentiful near the rivers in the primitive woods of Quisuculo growing mixed with another species also called “Subi” by the blacks. TPre- N<T6439C mogyne PurPurea Rid1-] In scarcely op?aed fl. Sept. 1855.