Tragia] cxv. euphorbiace.e. 985 



fl. and fr. March 1855 and beginning of June 1856. Xo. 381. A 

 variety with the bracteoles and flowers green not reddish. At 

 Mussengue together with the typical plant ; fl. Dec. 1855. No. 381^. 



The negroes call this plant " Risanza," and the Portuguese colonists 

 •call it '* Casaocao." The failure in rearing horned cattle in Golungo 

 Alto is said to be due principally to the frequent presence of this 

 terrible stinging plant ; Welwitsch, however, doubted this statement ; 

 it probably causes cattle to avoid the pastures in the same way as does 

 Lepistemon africanum Oliv. See ante^ pp. 723, 731. 



34. DALECHAMPIA Plum., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pi. iii. 

 p. 330. 



1. D. scandens L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 1054 (1753); Muell. arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1244 (1866). 



Var. parvifolia Muell. arg., I.e., p. 1245. 



D. parvifolia Lam. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 258 (1786). D. sene- 

 ^alensis Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 174 (1849) ; J. A. Schmidt, 

 n. Cap Verd Ins. p. 305 (1852). Dalechampia sp., Wehv. in 

 Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 250, n. 127. 



Ambriz. — AVidely climbing. At the banks of the river Quizembo ; 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 387. 



LoANDA. — Closely resembling a Convolvulus in habit and mode of 

 growth ; perennial. By thickets near Loanda, rather rare ; March 

 1854. No specimens preserved. Coll. Carp. 925. In moist bushy 

 places, widely and densely climbing among shrubs at Represa de 

 Magellaes ; fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 383- 



LiBONGO. — A twining herb, with a Convolvulaceous habit, hoary- 

 pubescent throughout ; branchlets mostly very intricate, in the young 

 state as well as the nevr leaves si Iky -hoary ; flowers greenish. In 

 moist thickets at the banks of the river Lif une, near Banza de Libongo ; 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 385. 



Var. cordofana Muell. arg., I.e. 



D. tripartita Pt. Br. in Salt, Abyssinia, App. Ixv. (1814), name 

 only. B. coi'dofana Hochst. in PI. Nub. Kotsch. n. 84 ( (7. i., 1841), 

 ^nd ex A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 244 (1851). 



Loanda. — A twining, widely climbing herb, apparently annual, 

 resembling an Ipomota in habit ; leaves deep green, somewhat glabrous 

 but thinly pilose not tomentose ; involucres subglabrous, not tomentose, 

 from green to yellowish, 7- to 9-nerved. In herbaceous thickets, 

 between Penedo and Conceicao, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1858. 

 No. 384. 



Cazexgc— A twining, widely climbing, strongly stinging herb, 

 beset with vehemently irritating hairs ; involucres and flowers from 

 green to yellowish. By thickets close to the banks of the river Luinha, 

 near Aguas doces, plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 388. 



MossAMEDES. — At the bushy banks of the river Bero near 

 Mossamedes, rather rare ; fr. July 1859. No. 386- 



35. MAPROUNEA Aubl.; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 333. 

 1. M. africana Muell. arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1191 (1866). 

 Bumbo. — A tree 15 ft. high, loosely branched, Avith the habit almost 



of a Pyrus^ sparingly milky ; fruiting trees, occurring in the neigh- 

 bourhood of other trees, with male spikes. In the forests of the more 



