Stathmostelma| LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE. 687 
Huitia.—Flowers brilliantly blood-red. At the Mumpulla lake ; 
fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4176. 
In the study set there is a follicle measuring rather more than 3 in. 
long by } in. broad. 
~~ 2. §. Welwitschii Britten & Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, 
iv. p. 28, in note (1894). 
Asclepias Welwitschii Britten & Rendle, l.c. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A very lactescent herb; root tuberous, napiform, 
hard, perennial ; stem erect, branched, 2} to 4 ft. high; leaves green- 
ish, somewhat glaucescent and fleshy ; flowers resembling those of a 
Chironia, very deep orange in colour. In the more elevated sandy 
thickets near Pedras de Guinga, very rare; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4168. 
In the study set there is a specimen with a single flower from the 
same locality, apparently of this species. No. 4168). 
12. CALOTROPIS R. Br.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 754. 
1. C. procera Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 2, ii. p. 78 (1811); Schmidt, 
Fl. Cap. Verd. p. 215 (1852); Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 222 (1894). 
Asclepias procera Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, i. p. 305 (1789). 
Care DE VERDE IsLANDS.—A fleshy, copiously lactescent, glaucous 
shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, sparingly branched from the base; flowers 
whitish purple. In cultivated as well as in uncultivated places along 
the skirts of fields, etc., near Cidade da Praia in St. Jago, where it is 
called “ Bombardeira” by the inhabitants; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. 
No. 4180. A perennial plant, 4 to 8 ft. high, remarkably ornamental 
in the level spaces; stem straight, branched ; leaves very large, 
glaucous ; flowers rosy-white. In the island of St. Jago ; fr. beginning 
of Jan. 1861. Cox. Carp. 21. 
13. PENTARRHINUM E. Mey. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 
li. p. 758. 
“~ 1. P. insipidum E. Mey. Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr. p. 200 
(1837) ; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. p. 7, t. 11 (1859). 
AMBRIZ.—Quizembo ; fl. Nov. 1853. No. 4199. 
IcoLto E BENGo.—A twining herb, with bright green thinly rather 
fleshy foliage and white flowers. Near the Lagéa de Foto, tolerably 
abundant ; fl. Sept. 1857. No. 4240. 
Loanpa.—A lactescent, twining herb ; stems widely and intricately 
climbing but scarcely more than 6 ft. high ; leaves cordate, glaucous- 
green, soft ; flowers white ; follicles rarely seen, ovoid-conical, blunt. 
By and in thickets near Penedo ; fl. end of April 1858 ; fr. July 1854 
and July 1858. No. 4237 and Cott. Carp. 736. 
GotuNnGco AuLtTo.—A climbing lactescent undershrub, with white 
flowers. At Elinda grande in Terras de Bumba; fl. May 1855. 
No. 4238. A tender, lactescent, climbing herb ; leaves herbaceous- 
green, but little glaucescent, soft, flaccid; calyx green ; corolla also 
herbaceous-green, at the time of the open flower rotately patent ; 
staminal corona brilliantly white, rather fleshy; the segments 5, 
lanceolate, acuminate, involute at the apex and at the lateral margins 
near the base. At the outskirts of forests along the banks of the 
river Quiapose, rather rare ; fl. March 1856. No. 4239. 
Bumgo.—Flowers white. In the rocky thickets of Nene towards 
Empalanca ; fl. end of March 1860. No. 4247. 
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