686 ~~ | UXXXJII, ASCLEPIADES. | Asclepias 
tuberous ; leaves rather rigid, glaucous ; flowers rosy-peach-coloured. 
In rocky thickets on the left bank of the river Luze, sparsely ; fl. 
Dec. 1854. No. 4182. 
Punco ANpoNGo.—A very lactescent, erect herb ; root tuberous ; 
leaves rigid, glaucous; flowers of a very pleasant violet-purplish 
colour. In open thickets at the banks of the river Luxillo, behind the 
bridge, abundant; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4183. An erect stiff lactescent 
herb, sparingly or somewhat branched; root tuberous ; flowers 
whitish. On the elevated rocks of the presidium, Pedra de Cazella, 
plentiful ; fl. Jan. 1857. No, 4184. A perennial herb ; root-tubers 
elongate-oblong ; stem erect, 2 ft. high; leaves coriaceous, rough, 
glaucous-green ; flowers of a very pleasant flesh-rosy colour, at length 
turning rosy-purple. In rather dry thickets on the left bank of the 
river Luxillo from Pungo Andongo towards the district of Cambamba, 
sparingly ; fl. April 1857. Also occasionally but rarely met with in 
the district of AmBacA. No. 4185. An erect herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, 
copiously lactescent in all parts; stem petioles and peduncles softly 
shaggy ; flowers milk-white. "In wooded pastures on the right bank 
of the river Cuanza, sporadic; fl. middle of Nov. 1856. No. 4186. 
A very lactescent, glaucous-green herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with whitish 
flowers. In thickets among sparse trees between Caghuy and the 
river Cuanza ; fl. end of Nov. 1856. No. 4187. 
Huitia.—A succulent herb, 2 to 23 ft. high, with rosy flowers. In 
bushy places between Eme and Quipungo, rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1860. 
No. 4192. 
~ 8. A. palustris Schlechter, /.c., p. 336. 
Gomphocarpus palustris K. Schum., l.c., p. 127. 
Punco ANponGo.—An erect herb; root with oblong tuberous 
enlargements on its divisions; flowers pale rosy. On the more 
elevated bushy parts of the gigantic rocks of the presidium, rather 
rare ; fl. Dec. 1856. No. 4167. 
~ 9. A. Schumanniana. 
Gomphocarpus amenus K. Schum., l.c., p. 124. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—A herb with a napiform root, glaucous-green 
foliage, and deep violet-rosy flowers. In the more elevated thickets 
of the presidium, on Pedra de Cazella, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 1856 and 
Jan. 1857. No. 4169. 
10. A. foliosa. 
Gomphocarpus foliosus K. Schum., l.c., p. 126. 
Huiiia.—Flowers of a rosy violet colour. In pastures among 
sparse bushes, near Lopollo, rare ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4174. 
The next two Nos., with alternate or scattered rather than 
opposite leaves, possibly belong to a species of Asclepias :— 
Punco AnponGo.—A lactescent herb ; root tuberous, large, napi- 
form ; leaves alternate. In pastures near Calundo, never seen in 
fl. Jan. and March 1857. No. 4236. A tuberous, lactescent herb. In 
rocky pastures near Candumba at the river Cuanza, rather rare ; 
without fl. March 1857. No. 6742. 
11. STATHMOSTELMA K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. 
p. 129, t. 6 (1898). 
__ 1. S. inearnatum K. Schum., /.c., p. 130. 
