Demia| LXXXII]. ASCLEPIADE. 691 
near Muria; fl. Sept. 1855 ; also at the outskirts of the forest between 
Muria and Trombeta, rather sparingly ; fl. 18 Sept. 1854. Found 
also near Sange. The best time for its flowering is April and May. 
No. 4244. A widely climbing, twining, lactescent undershrub or herb ; 
leaves cordate ; flowers white ; follicles divaricate, beset with herba- 
ceous prickles. In thickets by the king’s highway near Sange, by Ponte 
de Luiz Simoes, plentiful ; fr. July 1857. Cou. Carp. 162. 
MossaMEpDEs.—A perennial, extensively climbing, twining, copiously 
lactescent, glaucous-green herb ; peduncles elongated, umbelliferous ; 
pedicels pendulous ; flowers purplish ; follicles geminate, elongated, 
ovoid-lanceolate, falcate, compressed-cylindrical, gradually subulate 
towards the apex, greenish, muriculate, pilose-subhispidulous in parts. 
In sandy thickets at the banks of the river Bero, plentiful ; fl. and fr. 
end of July 1859. No. 4246. 
This is the Asclepiad mentioned and shortly described by Welwitsch, 
Apontam. p. 590. n. 90 (1859). ‘ 
18. GYMNEMA Br.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 769. 
—™ 1. G. geminatum Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 462 (1810). 
Periploca sylvestris Retz, Obs. Bot. ii. p. 15 (1781) G. sylvestre 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. p. 57 (1820). 
Pungo ANpDoNGOo.—A shrublet, spread on the ground or twining and 
climbing after the manner of species of Sarcostemma, with one of which 
it was in company. On lofty ledges of the gigantic rocks of the 
presidium, Pedra Songue; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 4198. 
Huiiia.—A climbing or sarmentose shrub, with tortuous branches 
and whitish-yellowish flowers. In thinly wooded parts of Morro de 
Lopollo, at Ferrio da Sola ; fl. Dec. 1859 and Feb. 1860, fr. April 1860. 
No. 4242. 
19. TYLOPHORA Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 770. 
~ 1. T. sylvatica Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, ix. 273 (1838). 
Vincetoxicum sylvaticum O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 425 (1891). 
GoLuneo ALTo.—A very lactescent herb, with atropurpureous flowers. 
At the outskirts of palm groves near Sanches, sparingly ; fl. Feb. 1855. 
No. 4230. In thickets in the Sange country ; fl. and fr. No. 4231. 
™ 2. T. conspicua N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 258. 
GoLunco Auro.—A slender, widely climbing, lactescent shrub ; stems 
virgate-sarmentose, very tenacious, affording a fibre well adapted for 
making ropes; flowers purple. In the primitive forests of Sobato 
Mussengue and at Sange ; fl. Oct.1856. Branchlets patent. No. 4212. 
A twining, lactescent, suffruticose herb, with sordid atropurpureous 
flowers. By thickets in Sobato Bumba, near Sange, rather rare ; fl. 
March 1855. No. 4214. A shrub, climbing high and widely; root 
officinal ; leaves edible, membranous, deciduous; juice watery-viscid ; 
follicles greenish, smooth, angular-cylindrical, 2 to 24 in. long, about 
s In. in diameter, a little tapering towards the apex, more plainly 
angular at the apex, very blunt; all the angles obtuse. In damp 
forests at the banks of the river Delamboa, in company with Kigelia 
pinnata DC. (Welw. herb. no. 489), very rarely flowering ; young fr. and 
a few fl. April 1856. The seeds were, unfortunately, not examined by 
Welwitsch; the fruits were hung up to dry and were eaten by monkeys ; 
a fruit in the herbarium measures 4 in. long. No. 4215. Seeds of the 
climbing shrub called ‘“‘Mundondo,” together with the placenta. In 
