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Loanpa.—In dry hilly sparingly bushy places near Boa Vista, not 
far from the ocean; scarcely in good fl. middle of March 1858. No. 4274. 
4, CHLOROCODON Hook. f.; Benth. & Hook. f.Gen.Pl. ii. p. 745. 
1. C. Whiteii Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5898 (1871); K. Schum. 
in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 215, fig. 64 (Whiter) (1895) ; 
Periploca latifolia K. Schum. in. Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afrik., C, p. 321, 
& A, p. 94 (1895). Chlorocodon sp., Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 223 (1884). 
Gotunco ALTO.—Root the most aromatic of all the plants examined 
by Welwitsch in the interior of Angola, turning sweet when dry, 
called by the Portuguese colonists “ Alecacuz” (liquorice), and used 
when mixed with Xile or Abutua (Tiliacora chrysobotrya Welw.) as 
an emollient decoction ; aroma like that of Canella ; stem climbing 
far and wide, bent and twisted in various directions. In elevated 
places among the Queta mountains near Sange ; in leaf, not yet in fl. 
June 1855. No. 4211. A tall, climbing plant; root used like 
liquorice, with a peculiar aromatic sweet taste. In the dense forests 
on the northern sides of the Queta mountains ; without fl. or fr. end 
of May 1855. Native name ‘‘ Mulondo” or ‘“‘ Mundondo.” No. 6013. 
A climbing lactescent shrub, with a sweet root. Near Lendo, Cacusa- 
Sensala, Queta ; without either fl. or fr. end of Aug. 1855. No. 4217. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A shrub or rather a woody undershrub, climbing 
high and widely, lactescent ; fibre very fine and tenacious, silvery- 
glossy ; flowers violet-purple. By rocks along streams throughout the 
presidium ; fi. Jan. 1857. Native name ‘ Mundondo” or “ Jindondo.” 
No, 4218. A tall, climbing shrub, affording very tenacious fibre, with 
agreeably edible foliage and violet-coloured flowers. In the forests 
of Pungo Andongo, not uncommon but rather rarely flowering; fl. 
Jan. 1857. No. 4219. A lactescent shrublet, elongate-scandent. In 
Barrancos de Songue, without either fl. or fr. April 1857. Probably 
this species. No. 4220. 
Bumso.—A lactescent, twining shrub, climbing widely and high ; 
root thick, succulent, with a very agreeable aromatic scent, and sweet 
taste as in Glycyrrhiza. Corolla greenish-livid outside, deep violet- 
purple inside ; corona of the stamens duplex, green, the outer one 
with 5 lanceolate-linear erect scales, the inner one with 10 ovate- 
rounded patent appendages. In rocky places along the Bruco stream 
at an elevation of about 1500 ft., in dense forests climbing on Eugenia 
benguellensis Welw. herb. no. 4395, not uncommon ; as yet sparingly 
in fl. towards end of Oct. 1859. The same plant occurs also in the 
districts of Golungo Alto, Cazengo, and Pungo Andongo. No. 4221. 
The determinations of the above-quoted Nos., so far as they are 
not accompanied with flowers, must be received with some doubt ; 
for this species in most other respects bears a remarkably close 
resemblance to 7'ylophora conspicua, and is known in Golungo 
Alto by the same native name of “‘ Mundondo.” According to 
Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 32, n. 79 & p. 42, n. 116, Mundondo 
grows in the dense forests of nearly all the mountainous districts 
from Alto Dande to Serra da Chella, and its leaves when cooked 
and treated with olive oil or butter afford a savoury substitute 
for spinach, and are so used both by the natives and by the 
Portuguese colonists; the more slender branches suitably 
macerated furnish excellent fibre for ropes, ete. ; moreover, its 
