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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![Maximilianea] XII. BIXINE.E. 1. MAXIMILIANEA Mart, ex Schrank in Flora ii., part i., p. 451 (1819). Cochlospermum Kunth (1822); Bentli. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 124. 1. M. angolensis 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 44 (Maximiliana). Cochlospermum angolense Welw. Apont. p. 566 ; Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i. p. 113. Golungo Alto.—A tree 10 to 20 ft. high, 9 in. in diam. at the base of its trunk ; branches divaricate ; flowers very handsome, deep-yellow ; fruit capsular, as large as a swan’s egg. On rather dry and rocky slopes, between Sange and Camilungo, at the margins of forests, abundant; fl. from Feb. to beginning of May, fr. June and August 1856. No. 544. A small richly leafy tree, with palmatifid foliage and handsome yellow flowers, flowering near Cambondo 19 Sept. 1854. Ripe capsules near Canguerasange Nov. 1854. Coll. Carp. 136. Ponte de Felix Simoes ; capsules 5 Nov. 1854. Coll. Carp. 215, 216. Ambaca.—Capsules July 1856. Coll. Carp. 217. Welwitsch, Apont. l.c., states that this species inhabits the dry hills of Golungo Alto and Ambaca, and also the sandy margins of the river Cuanza. The natives call it “ Borotuto,” and make from its inner bark coarse but very strong cords ; the trunk abounds in yellow sap. In a manuscript note Welwitsch suggests that all the three species of Cochlospermum Kunth, described in Fl. Trop. Africa, l.c., are only varying forms of one species. The following (of which there was only one specimen) must be compared with M. tinctoria 0. K., l.c. :— Pungo Andongo.—A small tree of 10 to 20 ft. or more, with rather spreading branches; trunk at the base ranging up to 1^ ft. in diam. ; sometimes a shrub of 2 to 4 ft., branched from the base ; leaves coriaceous, rather rigid ; flowers large, perhaps the largest of the whole genus. In rocky thickets, near Cabondo and Catete, in the fortress Of Pungo Andongo, fl. middle of Dec. 1856 ; also at the base of the rocks near Luxillo, and in dampish bushy places at the right bank of the river Cuanza near Candumba ; fl. March 1857. No. 545. 2. BIXA L.; Bentli. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 125. 1. B. Orellana L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 512 (1753); Welw. Apont. pp. 555, 588, n. 58; Welw. Synopse pp. 41, 47, n. 129; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 114. Golungo Alto.—A stout shrub of 5 to 8 ft., branched from the base, richly leafy; leaves by no means always quite entire, as Endlicher, Gen. PI. p. 918 (1840), states, but those in the middle of the flowering branches usually and almost constantly bidendate at the base, with tar-protruded acute teeth causing the leaf to be palmatifid or lobed ; owers rose-purple ; outer 2 or 3 sepals herbaceous, the rest petaloid ; petals twice as long as the sepals; anthers quite obtuse and not inflected norf i°° e .I?ann^r at the apex ; style inflected in a hooked manner ; S ovoid-conical, not compressed. Cultivated and half wild at . t,r ers forests and along the banks of rivulets, not uncommon sionallvT n? w0ng the mountains of Serra de Alta Queta ; occa- Dlacesi168* Canguerasange, fl. 3 Dec. 1854; in bushy the base rvfGL a’ ’ ^ ^ f°rests at the river Cuanza, along base of the mountains of Queta; fl. and young fr. Jan. 1856. No. 531.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
