J/i/dno}V(] cvi. CYTixACE.t:. 911 



dusky cinnamon colouring mutter which also contains tannin, and for 

 this reason is frecjuently employed with complete success by the 

 Mossamedes fishermen for staining their nets and preserving them for 

 a long time from decay. Thunborg s{)()ke of the plant as a fungus ; 

 and in his time it was known in South Africa by the name of "Jacklial's 

 Kost.'' See Thunberg's Trairlx, Engl. ed.. ii. p. ]'M (17U'>). For a 

 further account of this underground parasite see Monteiro, Angola, 

 ii. p. 207 (ISTf)). 



( 'VII. AUlSTUJ.UUlllxVC 'E.E. 

 1. AEISTOLOCHIA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 



ri. iii. p. iL'.!. 



1. A, albida ])iu'l;artie in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, ii. p. 7D 

 (1854), and in DC. Prodr. xv. 1, p. 483 (May 1864); Solereder 

 in Engl. Bot. Jabrb. x. p. 437 (2 April 1889). 



A. a'thiopica Wehv. Ai)ontam. p. 548, sub n. 81 (1859). 



Goi.iNOtt Alto. — A climbing, perennial plant ; stem mostly 

 prostrate, with long sarmentose branches ; calyx unilabiate, lurid, 

 dusky purple : the lip obovate, oblong-panduriform, concave and 

 hirsute above the middle, with reflected margins, glaucous and keeled 

 below ; epigynous disk with six crenations, each of which bears two 

 extror.se bilocular longitudinally dehiscent anthers. In hilly places 

 and on rather dry slopes at the outskirts of thickets and at the bushy 

 banks of streams, occasionally plentiful ; by the Ambaca road, fl. 

 Aug. 1^5"), fr. Nov. 1855. No. 511. A decumbent specimen ; in hot 

 rocky places near Sange, fl. beginning of Aug. 1855. No. 511/>. In 

 fr. Dec. 1854. Coi.l. Caki'. 93G. 



MossAMKDKs. — A perennial, diffuse or widely climbing, much 

 branched, suffrutescent herb ; leaves coriaceous, somewhat limp ; 

 flowers blackish purple. In sandy maritime thickets between 

 ]\Iossamedes and Cavalheiros or Giraul, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1S59. No. 512. In thickets near Mossamedes ; in well developed 

 fl. J unci 859. No. 512//. 



Welwitsch considered that the trivial name as a descriptive term 

 was very unsuitable. 



CVIII. PIPERACE.E. 



The acjuatic plant, with edible tuberous rhizomes like clu'stnuts 

 in taste, mentioned by Welwitsch in Apontam. p. 54G, n. G3 and 

 there placed under Saurureaj, is probably Limno]:)hyton ohtusifolium 

 Miq. 



1. PIPER L. : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 129. 



1. P. umbellatum L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 30 (1753); C. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. ], j^. 332 (1809). 



P. suhpeltalam Willd. .Sp. PI. i. p. IGG (1797); C. DC /.c, 

 p. 333. IJeckeria suhpeltata Kunth in Linnjca xiii. p, 571 (1839) ; 

 Engl, in Engl. «k Prantl, Nat. Ptlanzenfam. iii. 1, p. G (1889). 

 Pothomorphe suhpeltata Miq. Comm. Phyt. p. 37 (1840). 



G()LUNc;o Ai/ro. — A very elegant pepper, 3 to 5 ft. high ; stem 

 nodose ; spikes whiti^.h. lu primitive very shady forests by tlie 



