682 LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE. [ Secamone 
No. 5944. A lactescent shrub, climbing high and widely, with 
yellowish flowers. In the primitive forests of Quilombo Quiacatubia ; 
fl. Feb. 1855. No. 5945. A climbing, sparingly lactesceut shrub ; 
leaves evergreen, softly coriaceous, glossy, pallid beneath, pinnately 
striate ; flowers rather fleshy, yellowish, but little fragrant; calyx 
green, with imbricate very obtuse segments ; corolla white-yellowish 
outside, yellow inside ; stamens inserted at the bottom of the corolla ; 
anthers bearded at the apex ; stigma clavate-capitate, whitish, ex- 
ceeding the anthers ; hypogynous scales erect, lanceolate-linear, a 
little shorter than the row of anthers. By thickets in Sobato de 
Mussengue ; fl. middle of Feb. 1856. No. 5946. 
Ampaca.—A tall climbing lactescent shrub, with coriaceous glossy 
leaves. In bushy wooded places by streams between Izanga and 
N-gombe ; without either fl. or fr. Oct. 1856. Apparently this species. 
No. 5948. 
Punco ANDONGO.—No notes. Fl. No. 5947. 
The next following No. should be compared with this species :— 
Punco AnponGo.—A slender, widely climbing shrub, lactescent, 
with whitish flower-buds. In bushy places at the outskirts of the 
primitive forest in the presidium, apparently sporadic ; only once 
seen though subsequently searched for ; fl.-bud Feb. 1857. No. 1237. 
7. XYSMALOBIUM R. Br.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 752. 
1, X. angolense Elliot in Journ. Bot. xxviii. p. 365 (1890). 
Hvuiiia.—A herb ; rootstock tuberous ; stems numerous, | to 2 ft. 
high, erect, very loosely filled with a spongy pith, pubescent ; leaves 
numerous, pubescent ; calyx very pale yellow ; corolla-lobes sordid- 
violet coloured outside, whitish and bearded inside ; corona of the 
stamens and the stigma violet-coloured. In swampy places along 
streams near Huilla, plentiful, fl. 20 Nov. 1859 ; in damp meadows 
near Humpata, fr. April 1860. No. 4170. In the damp pastures of 
Catumba towards Ohai : fl. Feb. 1860. No. 4171. 
~~ 2, X. decipiens N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 250. 
X. Holubii Elliot, l.c., pro parte. 
Huiiia.—F lowers whitish-lilac. In hilly bushy and grassy places 
near Lopollo, rather rare ; fl. Dec. 1859. No, 4175. 
3. X. fritillarioides Rendle in Journ. Bot, xxxii. p. 162 (1894). 
Hvuiiia.—A herb ; rootstock woody, perennial ; stem slender, 1} ft. 
high ; leaves opposite, linear, herbaceous green; flowers green- 
yellowish, comparatively large, almost resembling those of a F’ritillaria. 
In thickets between Mumpulla and Humpata, apparently very rare ; 
fi. Oct. 1859. No. 4179. 
~~ 4, X. rhomboideum N. E. Br., l.c., p. 251. 
HuiLtia.—F lowers sordid, coloured white-violet. In sandy pastures 
amongst low bushes, near Ferrio da Sola ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4193. 
5, X. andongense Hiern, sp. n. 
An erect, robust herb; stem about 13 ft. high or more, 
apparently simple, pubescent somewhat sinuous and compressed 
above, puberulous and terete below, leafy throughout, often 
transversely lined at the nodes; leaves opposite, oval or oblong, 
