Catalogue of the African Plants (Volume 1, PT. 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...p. 496. Vitis diffusifiora Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 390. V. prodiocta Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop; Afr. i. p. 389 pro parte, non C. productus Afzel. Rem. Gum. p. 63 (1815). Sierra Leone.--A slender undershrub, climbing far and widely, smooth, with curious ramification, sometimes resembling a species of Smilax; leaves thinly coriaceous, rather glossy, much paler on the lower surface; stipules ovate, rather fleshy; flowers white-reddish; petals in most flowers free, but in some flowers on the same plant cohering at the apex. In the wooded thickets of Sugar-loaf Mountain above Freetown, at an elevation of about 1500 ft., adorning the region around the waterfall; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 1501. 11. C. quadrangularis L. Mant. (i.) p. 39 (1767); Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 509. Vitis quadraiigidaris WaM. last, n. 5992 (1831-32); Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 125 (1834); Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 399. Loanda.--Primary joint of the stem cylindrical; the succeeding x joints all prismatic, with 4 wings, or scarcely winged but ferruginousmargined, undulate at the angles and there purplish, deeply furrowed on each side, constricted at the bends, fleshy-fibrous, long-lived; the stem, the leaves, and especially the petioles rather rough and subpubescent with rather rigid whitish-hyaline hairs; adult leaves broadly cordate-ovate, shortly acuminate, distantly and sharply serrate, fleshy, soft; petiole acutely 4-angular, deeply channelled, in. long. In the winter or dry time (June to August) the stems denuded of leaves hang from branched trees after the manner of RhipsaMs or of Cereus; at the commencement of the spring-rains the plant reassumes the habit of Cissus. Peduncles obtusely quadrangular; pedicels terete; flowers paleyellowish; calyx somewhat repand--4-dent...