696 LXXXIII, ASCLEPIADEZ. [ Ceropegia 
the throat and lobes marked with dusky-purple reticulations inside 
except the apex of the lobes. By the lower thickets at the river 
Coango in the Queta mountains, near Sange, behind Senhor Rodrigo’s 
house ; very rare; fl. March 1856, No. 4272. On bushy slopes on 
the right bank of the river Coango, behind Rodrigo’s house ; without 
either fl. or fr. May 1856. No. 4272b. 
5. C. scandens N. E. Br., d.c., p. 262. 
GoLuNnco ALToO.—A twining herb; juice watery ; leaves rather 
fleshy and limp, deep green and without sheen above, paler beneath ; 
corolla pale sulphur in colour outside, punctate with blood-red specks ; 
the lobes of the limb elongate-ovate, cohering at the apex, beset inside 
at the tip with rather long white hairs, marked at the medium with 
a large atropurpureous spot ; staminal corona 5-lobed; the lobes 
ligulate, yellow, incurved at the apex; anthers simple at the apex. 
In the lower sparse thickets by hills on the right bank of the river 
Coango, near Sange, rather rare and solitary; fl. 2 Dec. 1855. 
No. 4273. <A  suffruticose, sparingly lactescent herb, with long 
sarmentose branches ; root fibrillose, not tuberous ; flowers variegated 
with ashy and violet colours, lantern-shaped. On bushy slopes on the 
right bank of the river Coango, very rare ; fl. Jan. 1856. No. 42730. 
6. C. pumila N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1898, p. 693 (Nov.). 
A herb, apparently climbing ; juice watery, not milky; root 
tuberous ; the tuber sordidly whitish, depressedly hemispherical, 
somewhat rugulose, circular in horizontal | figure, flattened or 
slightly convex at top and bottom, giving off from the latter 
descending fibres, 1 to 2 in. in diameter, fleshy, white inside ; 
stems several, 2 or 3 from one tuber, pale green, sparingly clothed 
here and there with short whitish hairs; leaves opposite, lanceo- 
late, setulose-ciliate on the margin with rather rigid spreading 
whitish cilia, glaucous-green or obscurely hoary-green above, 
pale glaucescent lepidote-rugulose, rather shining, and somewhat 
whitish beneath, rather fleshy, ranging up to 2 in. long by ;; in. 
broad ; petiole short, semi-amplexicaul, canaliculate ; peduncles 
axillary + in, long deflexed with subcorymbose short pedicels curved 
upwards at the middle, or extra-axillary short clustered 2 to 4 
together one-flowered bracteate; flowers lurid-dusky outside, 
velvety-atropurpureous inside; calyx deeply 5-cleft, with ovate- 
lanceolate rather fleshy-tumid lobes, many times shorter than the 
corolla; corolla tubular; the tube scattered outside with whitish 
hairs, obscurely purple-velvety inside, ventricose at the base, 
constricted and curved upwards in the middle; the mouth wide, 
5-cleft, with narrow linear acuminate ciliate erect-spreading 
lobes ; staminal corona truncate-campanulate, the outer 5-lobed, 
the lobes very obtuse, the whole atropurpureous ; genitalia in- 
cluded, nestling in the basal ventricose part of the corolla, 
quasi-cyathiform, yellowish. 
Hvitia.—In a rocky bushy spot near Lopollo, at an elevation of 
about 5200 ft. ; fl. April 1860. No. 4267. 
The same plant was cultivated at Lisbon in the garden of Wel- 
witsch’s friend, Dom Lucena, in Sept. 1863, when another flowering 
stem was produced, 4 to 6 in. high, weakly erect, with corymbose flowers. 
