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.
89/392 page 57
![XX. HYPERICINEjE. Psorospermum] 2. PSOROSPERMUM Spach; Bentk. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 167. 1. P. febrifugum Spach in Ann. Sc. Hat., ser. ii., vol. v. p. 163 (1836); Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. i. p. 158. Cazexgo.—A small tree, branched almost from the base ; trunk 4 in. in diam. near the base, erect; branches erect-spreading ; flowers white tinged with rose; in rather dry bushy high-grassy places (capinaes), near Cacula and by hills near the river Luinha ; fl. Dec. 1854. No. 1057. Goluxgo Alto.—The native name “ Mutuue ” is applied to this plant as well as to the one next following species. A tree of 10 ft. (or perhaps a young tree) ; branches erect-patent, lax ; flowers whitish- rose ; in elevated stony hilly places of Serra de Alta Queta, towards the river Luinha, in company with “ Unday” (Gardenia Jovis-tonantis Hiern) ; fr. July 1856. No. 1058. A tree, 6 to 10 ft. high ; trunk 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; bark corky, said to be a febrifuge; flower whitish to whitish-rose ; in the drier especially in the secondary thickets throughout the Sob. de Bumba ; fl. Oct. 1855. No. 1059. A tree, springing up after the burnings (Queimadas) ; flowering shoots emerg- ing from the trunk ; on the drier slopes of Sobato Cabanga-Cacalungo, near the base of Mount Cungulungulo ; fl. Sept. 1855. No. 10595. A tree of 6 to 10 ft., occasionally of 12 to 15 ft., with a crown more or less pyramidal; on the drier wooded slopes of the mountains of Capopa, near Sange; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 1060. A tree of 8 to 10 ft. (perhaps a secondary shoot of a larger burnt tree) ; in secondary thickets of the more elevated hills of Sobato Bumba ; in young fr. Dec. 1855 ; Menha lula, in young fr. May 1855. No. 10605. A tree of 10 to 15 ft., or in secondary thickets usually destroyed by fire and then forming a shrub; leaves softly but thickly coriaceous, green above ; flowers whitish-reddish ; frequent in thickets by the borders of primitive woods of Sobato de Bumba and near Bango-Aquitamba ; fl. Dec. 1855. No. 10615. Native name “ Cabrei ” ; used as a remedy against the itch (Sarna). Pungo Andongo.—An arborescent shrub, with the branchlets com- pressed at the nodes and with white flowers. Bark used by the natives as a febrifuge and in cases of leprosy. In secondary thickets of the fortress, near Cazella ; in fl. and young fr. Dec. 1856. Native name “ M’-Bulambia. ” Welw. Apont. p. 560. No. 1064. Far. albida Oliv., l.c., p. 159. P. albhlum Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 83 (1893). ■Huilla.—A caespitose shrub of 1 ft., sometimes a small tree of 8 to . widely branched ; flowers white or whitish-rose ; not uncommon m stony thickets and at the borders of woods throughout the plateau tv near Nene’ LoPoll° and Humpata ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. v°u i ^ s^ru6 of 1 to 5 ft. (sometimes prostrate and only 6 in. high) loosely branched, erect ; upper surface of the small Vaccinium- nRe leaves with deeply impressed venation; flowers white or rose- n * i L!? portly bushy pastures between Nene and Mumpulla ; fl. Get. 1859. No. 1066. The characters given by Engler, l.c., to define his species, fail to wrP°.nd a11 Welwitsch’s specimens cited above; moreover variety a?5kZ«64’ quoted by EnSler for ^ does not belong to Oliver’s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
