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fleshy ; flowers ochroleucous. In the more elevated rocky parts of 
Pungo Andongo ; fl. Dec. 1856 and Feb. 1857. No. 4162. On the 
tops of the rocks of Pedra de Cabondo, at an elevation of 3500 ft. ; 
fl. April 1857. No. 4163. 
Hvu1itia.—Flowers whitish-yellowish. In the rocky thickets of 
Lopollo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4166. 
This plant is nearly related to A. flavida N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, 
p. 255 (Oct. 1895), a species from Somali-land, but differs from it by 
the scarcely acute corolla-lobes pilose on the back and by the straight 
and erect rather than falcate and abruptly reflected teeth on the inner 
angles of the folded corona-scales. It differs from Gomphocarpus 
tomentosus Burch. by the inflated fruit. 
“™ 4. A. denticulata Schlechter in Journ. Bot. xxxiii. p. 334 (1895). 
Lisonco.—An undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, sparingly branched, 
erect ; leaves glaucous-green ; flowers whitish ; follicles green, obovoid- 
globose, in old age turning pale yellow. In swampy places about the 
lake on the right bank of the river Lifune, near the plantations of 
Senhor Freire; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 4159. A copiously 
lactescent, sparingly branched, narrow-leaved shrub of 3 to 4 ft., 
with white flowers. In damp places about the lake near Libongo ; 
fr. Sept. 1858. Conu. Carp. 127. 
GoLunco ALtTo.—A perennial herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; leaves sub- 
coriaceous, succulent, glaucous-green ; flowers white, asin A. fruticosa. 
In marshy parts of palm-groves composed of Raphia textilis Welw. 
(herb. no. 6671), on the right bank of the river Quiapoze ; roadway 
near Menha Lula; fl. Jan. 1855; fl. and fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4158. 
“5. A. fruticosa L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 216 (1753). 
Gomphocarpus fruticosus Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 2, ii. p. 80 (1811). 
MossaMEDEs,—An erect undershrub ; stems several, 4 to 5 ft. high ; 
flowering branches erect-speading ; leaves herbaceous, deep green : 
flowers whitish. In sandy thickets at the banks of the rivers Bero 
and Girail, very plentiful; fl. and fr. June to Aug. 1859. No. 4164. 
Apparently an undershrub although 4 to 6 ft. high, for the stems 
perish nearly to the rhizome each year; flowers whitish. In moist 
bushy places at the margins of the river Bero near Cavalheiros, ete. ; 
fl. and young fr, June 1860. No. 4165. 
6. A. semiamplectens. 
Gomphocarpus semiamplectens K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
* xvii. p. 128 (9 May 1893). i 
Punco ANDONGO,—An erect, sparingly branched, very lactescent 
herb, 2 to 24 ft. high, with the habit quite of a large Cerinthe ; root 
napiform ; branches erect-spreading ; leaves broadly ovate, cordate, 
secund, adpressed to the stem, glaucous-shining ; pedicels reddening ; 
flowers nodding ; the calyx and lobes of the corolla yellowish green ; 
staminal corona yellowish ; follicles inflated, ovoid, nearly glabrous. 
In a sandy wooded thicket near Cazella, plentiful but only in one 
place ; fl. and fr. beginning of Jan. 1857. No. 4188. 
7. A. lineolata Schlechter, /.c., p. 336. 
Gomphocarpus lineolatus Decaisne in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, ix. 
p- 326 (1838). G. bisaccwlatus Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, 
ii. p. 341 (Oct. 1887). 
CazeENGO.—An erect, lactescent herb, 2 to 23 ft. high; root 
