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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![Boscia] the base of Serra da Xella, at a place called Bruco, fl. and young fruit Oct. 1859. No. 980. The following may, as suggested by Welwitsch, belong here:— Mossamedes.—A very rigid sparingly branched shrub, 4 ft. high. In dry mountainous places at the right bank of the river Maiombo near Cazimba, without flower or fruit June 1860. No. 981. 2. B, salicifolia Oliv. Fl. Trop. i. p. 93. Mossamedes.—A distorted decumbent shrub, much branched from the base ; flowers greenish-white. Sporadic, in dry sandy stony places, between Mata dos Carpinteiros and P4o, fl. June 1860. No. 982. 3. B. microphylla Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 93. Bumbo.—A small tree, 8 to 12 ft. high, with the habit of Elazagnus or Hippoplia'e ; trunk straight ; crown much branched ; branchlets often spinous ; flowers yellowish. In rough mountainous places, by the banks of the river Maiombo, between Pomangala and Quitive ; in one place only found plentifully, in company with Balanites and species of Acacia, sparingly in flower Oct. 1859. No. 983. 4. B. urens Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 93. Loanda.—In the littoral region a cultivated shrub of 2 to 4 ft., and in the hilly (or interior-littoral) region, as for example near Quicanga, a small tree of 10 or rarely 12 ft. Wood fine-grained, yellowish-white, and shining like satin ; branches patulous-erect, the ultimate ones virgately elongated; leaves evergreen dryly coriaceous; flowers greenish, apetalous ; buds spherical or obovate-globose ; calyx tetramerous, val- vate in aestivation ; stamens numerous, 14 to 20, usually 16, inserted around the pistil within a thick spongy disk ; filaments ascending, all of the same height, clavate-thickened upwards or now and then uniformly cylindrical ; anthers oblong, sagittate-cordate, introrse, 2-celled; ovary stipitate, ovate-pyramidal, many-ovuled, surmounted by a globose-capitate stigma; fruit spherical, as large as a cherry in the littoral region or in the hilly region as a small-sized walnut, hard and tomentose when young, but when fully ripe softly crustaceous and outside very densely clothed with hyaline smartly stinging setulce, quite pale yellowish, bursting irregularly; seeds 2 to 5, pretty large, more or less uniform, nestled in a completely dried pulp. Very common in the drier thickets from Loanda towards Tanderachique ; rarer and as a small tree in the more elevated regions around Quicanda ; flowering from March to May and June and not uncommonly again in September; in young fruit in July 1854 ; Museque do Sr. Schut 17 May 1854. No. 989. Coll. Carp. 209. 5. CAPPAB.IS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 108. 1. C. tomentosa Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 606 (1783) j Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 96 ; var. /?. Oliv., l.c. Zenza do Golungo.—A subscandent shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; leaves coriaceous; expanded flowers not seen ; in Acacia-groves near Calumguembo, rather rare ; in flower-bud in Sept. 1854. No. 974. A scandent shrub, bristling with stipular spines directed downwards ; sparingly, in bushy places by the skirts of woods, near Camutamba, in the ascent towards Quicanda ; in flower-bud at the beginning of Sept. 1857. No. 9745. Bumbo. A robust almost arborescent shrub ; branches elongated,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
