Raphionacme| LXXXII, ASCLEPIADE. 679 
lactescent climber ; at Zamba, June 1857. The follicle measures about 
3 in. in length. Possibly this species. Cont, Carp. 740. Dry stems 
with follicles only seen ; journey from Pungo Andongo to Ambaca at 
an elevation of 3500 ft., June 1857. Possibly this species. Co... 
Carp. 155. 
The next following No., in which the follicles measure 1} to 
12 in. long by + to } in. thick and are puberulous and the leaves 
measure 2 to 3 in. long by 1} to 1} in. broad, should be compared 
with this species and also with R. angolensis Benth. & Hook. f. 
ex K. Schum. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 221 (1895) :-— 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A copiously lactescent herb; rootstock sub- 
tubercular, persistent ; stems climbing, 2 to 4 or even 5 but mostly 
only 2 ft. long, red; leaves deep green above, velvety beneath ; 
flowers purple. In rocky places at Pedras de Guinga, very sparingly ; 
fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 4235. 
3. R. globosa K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 118 
(9 May 1893), & in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 221 (1895). 
Huitia.—An erect lactescent herb, a foot high ; rootstock tuberous, 
perennial ; stems several, simple ; leaves opposite, lanceolate-linear, 
glaucescent-green, patent or even reflected ; flowers white, congested 
in a capitate manner at the apex of the stems. In secondary thickets 
near Lopollo, very rare; fl. beginning of Dec. 1859. A unique 
specimen. No. 4178. 
4. R. Loande Schlechter & Rendle ms, in. herb. Mus. Brit. 
A low, sparingly lactescent herb; rootstock somewhat woody, 
persisting ; stems twining, slender, closely beset with short pallid 
hairs, somewhat branched; branches patent, leafy; leaves 
opposite, narrowly ovate elliptical or obovate, obtusely narrowed 
or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, rather thickly 
herbaceous, deep green and scattered with short pallid curved 
hairs above, paler and more densely clothed with similar hairs 
beneath, undulate on the entire margin, sessile subsessile ov 
shortly quasi-petiolate, } to 14 in. long by } to $in. broad ; 
inflorescence short, few-flowered, bracteate, about as long as the 
leaves, alternate, pendulous from the upper axils of the branches ; 
bracts ovate or lanceolate, ;4, in. long or less ; common peduncle 
and pedicels short or very short ; flowers herbaceous-green ; calyx 
widely campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, beset outside with short 
pallid spreading curved hairs, glabrous and shining inside, } in. 
long; the lobes acuminate from an ovate-oblong base; unex- 
panded corolla + in. long or rather more, scattered with short 
spreading pallid hairs outside, glabrous inside, somewhat salver- 
shaped, shortly 5-cleft; the tube marked inside with 5 longi- 
tudinal ridges; the lobes contorted in estivation, extrorsely 
indupheate at the margin, obtuse ; corona-scales purple, tripartite, 
the central segment subulate, twice the length of the deltoid 
lateral segments ; stamens from whitish to rosy ; style bearded 
below the stigma, glabrous towards the base. Inside the base 
of the calyx there are glabrous, short, truncate, approximately 
placed glands or scales. 
