Ceropegia| LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADES. 695 
subulate, incurved at the apex. In hilly sandy bushy places near 
Loanda in winter, fl. from June to Aug. 1854 and 1858; in dry hilly 
places abounding in aloes, near Maianga do Povo, about 100 ft. from 
the ocean, very rare ; without fl. Jan. 1858, fr. 1 March 1858; in 
similar situations near Alto das Cruzes, very rare, fl. and young fr. 
end of Feb. 1858. No. 4277. 
Var. puberula. Stem and leaves more or less puberulous. 
Huriia.—Flowers sordidly violet-greenish. In sandy thickets near 
Lopollo, tolerably plentiful ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4269. A climbing, 
succulent herb, with a tuberous root and the habit of the genus. In 
rocky elevated thickets in Morro de Lopollo, rare ; fl. March 1860. 
A unique specimen. No. 4268. 
— 2. C. angusta N.E. Br., lc. 
Pungo AnDOoNGO.—A suffruticose herb ; root formed of tuberous- 
thickened fasciculate fibres; stem intricately twining, purplish ; 
flowers variegated. By streams at Pedrade Cazella in the presidium ; 
fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4275. A very slender undershrub, widely but not 
high climbing, twining, lactescent ; root-tubers fasciculate ; stem 4 to 
8 ft. long or more. In elevated bushy rocky places by the streams of 
Pedra de Cazella; fl. April 1857. No. 4276. 
~~ 3. C. leucotznia K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 151. 
GoLtunco Axto,—A slender, rather limp, twining herb, pilose or 
pubescent almost throughout; juice watery, not milky ; root tuberous, 
depressedly hemispherical; leaves softly membranous, green and 
without any sheen above, much paler beneath ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; 
the segments narrowly linear, densely pilose, whitish-greenish ; corolla 
tubular-funnel-shaped ; the lobes of the limb free at the base and in 
the middle, ventricosely ascending, cohering at the apex, together 
forming a loopholed cavity; the ground-colour of the corolla pale 
sulphur outside, deeper sulphur inside, the tube inside at the base 
about the essential organs coloured with two purple rings and a little 
below the throat with another purplish ring and at the same time per- 
vaded with very fine black longitudinal lines ; the lobes of the limb 
fine, black-striate inside at the middle, quite black at the margin and 
apex or with a broad black margin; staminal corona apparently 
10-cleft, with 5-erect, club-shaped, black-shining lobes ; stigma nearly 
flat, pentagonal ; follicles geminate, cylindrical-subulate, mammellate- 
dilated at the apex, obtuse, smooth. At the outskirts of elevated 
forests among the Queta mountains, near Carengue, very rare ; fl. and 
young fr. beginning of May 1856. The young follicles in the study 
set are fusiform and the longer one is 34} in. long. No. 4270. Root 
tuberous, the tuber hemispherical. Queta mountains; without fl. 
Apparently this species. No. 4223. 
Pungo AnpbonGo.—In a marshy thicket near Quibanga, very rare ; 
fl. Jan, 1857. Only one specimen. No. 4271. 
— 4. C. volubilis N. E. Br., /.c. 
GoLunGo ALTO.—A lactescent, twining, more or less glaucous herb, 
shaggy throughout, the pedicels with spreading hairs ; root fibrous ; 
corolla yellowish at very bottom, in the top part and on the tube 
outside marked with dusky spots, the ground-colour being whitish 
yellow, the apex of the lobes ashy outside, velvety-purple and beset 
with long purple rather rigid hairs inside, cohering at the very tip; 
corolla-tube pervaded with longitudinal atropurpureous lines inside ; 
