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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![Abutilon] XXIII. MALVACEAE. Mossamedes.— An undershrub, woody at base, 4 to 5 ft.hl§]b ™lth deep orange-coloured flowers ; Cavalheiros, fl. Aug. 1859. No. 4944. The following No. is doubtfully placed under this species : Mossamedes.—A somewhat shrubby herb, 3 to 3^ ft. high, branched from the base, with soft rather flaccid glaucous-tomentellous foliage and white flowers ; in thickets near the river Bero, sparingly ; fl. July 1859. No. 4945. 7. A. fruticosum Guill. & Perr., Fl. Senegamb. Tent. p. 73 (1830—1831); Masters, l.c., p. 187. Loanda.—A little erect shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, much branched, with white tomentose leaves and deep-yellow flowers ; in moist stations covered with low brushwood near Bemposta, sparingly 5 fl. and fr. July 1858. No. 4967- Also fl. and fr., No. 4981. 5. TIRENA L.; Benth. & Iiook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 205. 1. U. lobata, L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 692 (1753); Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 189. Var. reticulata Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi. p. 376 (1893). Sierra Leone.—No. 4913. Prince’s Island.—Fr. Sept. 1853. No. 4914. Ambriz.—An undershrub 2 to 4 ft. high, woody at base, sparingly and patently branched ; flowers rose-purplish ; the inner bark is everywhere used for the manufacture of ropes ; in hilly and bushy stations near Mubango in the Ambriz territory ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853 ; native name “ Quibosa c’ofele.” No. 4917. Golungo Alto.—In exposed places, among beds of Imperata arundi- nacea Cyr. (“ Senu ”), near Sange, in fruit, Dec. 1854. No. 4915. An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. or higher ; the stems afford sufficiently tough fibres for the manufacture of ropes; abundant in the lower thickets, especially on the drier hills, near Sange and at Ponte de Luiz Simoes ; fl. and fi'. July 1855 ; native name “ Caquibosa,” “ Cajbosa,” or perhaps better, “ Ca-Nbosa.” No. 4918. In cultivated places an undershrub, and in aboriginal thickets a shrub of 3 to 4 ft., branched in a divaricate manner : the inner bark is very tough, and used for the manufacture of ropes ; foliage varying in shape and indumentum according to the station and age of the plant; flowers violet-purple, very quickly wither- ing ; abundant, by wooded thickets and about native villages, almost everywhere; fl. and fr. almost throughout the year ; Sange, 7 May 1856 ; native name “ Caquibosa.” No. 4912. Fr. end of Sept. 1856. Coll. Carp. 2. A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, the branches furnish good fibre for the manufacture of string ; Sobado de Bumbo, Sept. 1856. Coll. Carp. 95. An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high ; fibre of the branches very tough ; seeds forwarded to Welwitsch in 1859. Coll. Carp. 247. Pungo Andongo.—An undershrub, 4 ft. high, with numerous branches; in secondary thickets, near Quitage, not abundant; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 4916. 6 MALACHE B.C. Vogel in Trew, PI. Sel. Ehret, Dec. viii. p. 50 t 90 (1772). Panonia Cav. (1786); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 205. 1. M. macrophylla O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. i. p. 70 (1891). 1 avoma mncrophyllaK,. Mey.; Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 190. Pungo Andongo.—Fl. and fr. No. 4987.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
