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roots are distinguished by a peculiar lasting aroma and by a 
sweet and very agreeable taste, and when cooked are employed 
by the natives as a resolvent purgative in cases of cough and 
other chest affections ; the root tastes quite like the liquorice of 
Europe, and is called by the Portuguese colonists mountain or 
wild liquorice. The fibre derived from the branches of this 
climber is not excelled in density elasticity or lustre by that of 
linen ; and little else is used by the natives. The bark is some- 
times mixed with that of Croton Mubango Muell. Arg. for the 
preparation of dressings that possess gently purgative qualities 
(see Ficalho, /.c., p. 251). 
There is in Cott. Carp. 733 a unique follicle of a climbing 
lactescent shrub, which grew at Mussengue in Golungo Alto in 
June 1856 and was called “ Mundondo”; this follicle is 20% in. 
long, slender, subterete, } in. in diameter near the base, tapering 
towards the apex, and glabrous. 
“ 5, PERIPLOCA Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 746. 
1. P. nigrescens Afzel. Stirp. Guin. Med. i. p. 2 (1818). 
P, Preussti K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 117 (1893). 
GoLunGco ALTo.—In thickets in Sobato de Mussengue, rather rare ; 
fl. Feb. 1856. No. 4232. Fl. No notes. No. 4225. 
6. SECAMONE R. bBr.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 746. 
1. S. erythradenia K. Schum. in Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 141 (1893). 
Hvuiiia.—A low, sarmentose, twining, lactescent shrub ; leaves 
membranous, rather soft, yellowish green beneath ; fhowers white or 
green-yellowish, but little fleshy, nodding ; corolla-lobes quite patent 
at the time of the open flower, quickly again connivent ; stamens 
attached at the bottom of the corolla; filaments membranous, broad, 
a little cohering but not coalescent, forming a tube which includes 
the style; anthers apparently dehiscing transversely ; style rather 
thick; stigma flattened, surmounted with a conical bilobed appendage ; 
follicles lanceolate-conical, acuminate. In bushy wooded parts of 
Morro de Lopollo, on the side towards Humpata, plentiful; fl. Jan. 1860; 
fr. March, April and beginning of May 1860. No. 5941. 
2. §. micrandra K. Schum., /.c., p. 142. 
Gotunco Axtro.—A_ lactescent shrub, climbing widely and to a 
great height on trees; stem twining; flowers yellowish. In dense 
forests in Sobato Quilombo ; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 5942. 
3. §. platystigma K. Schum, l.c., p. 143. 
GoLunco ALtro.—A tall, climbing, lactescent shrub ; branches 
quite patent ; bark orange-yellow. In dense forests near Cambondo 
towards the river Luinha; fl. Jan. 1855. No. 5935. A scandent, 
twining, lactescent shrub, the sarmentose branches at length pendulous ; 
flowers yellowish. In the primitive forests of Sobato Cabanga 
Cacalunga, rather rare; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 5936. <A climbing 
shrub, with yellowish flowers. Mussengue roadway ; fr. June 1856. 
No. 5937. At N-delle ; fl. June 1855. No. 5943. A shrub, climbing 
high and widely, abounding in a bitter milky juice ; flowers yellow, 
but little fragrant. In dense forests near Cambondo; fl. Jan. 1856. 
