Tragin] cxv. EUPHORniACE.t:. 985 



fl. and fr. ^March 18')') ami Ijcginninj^ of June Is.'.r.. No. 381. A 

 variety witli the hracteoles and tiowers f^reen not roddisli. At 

 Mussenguu togetlier with the typical phint ; 11. Dec. iMo.";. No. 381 'a 



The negroes call this plant '• llisanza," and the Portuguese colonists 

 •call it " Casao(;a.o." The failure in rearing horned cattle in (Julungo 

 Alto is said to be due principally to the frecjuent presence of this 

 terrible stinging plant ; Welwitsch. however, doubted this statement ; 

 it probably causes cattle to avoid the pastures in the same way as does 

 Lcpistemnn nfricininm Oliv. See antr^ pp. Tl?>, 731. 



34. DALECHAMPIA Plum., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Oon. PI. iii. 

 p. 330. 



1. D. scandens L. Sp. Pi. odit. 1, p. 1054 (1753); Muell. arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. 2. p. 1244 (1866). 



Var. parvifolia ^luoll. arg., I.e., p. 1245. 



/). ;)a/Ti/o//a J.am. Encvcl. Meth. ii. p. 258(1786). D. sene- 

 <jnleiisis Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 174 (1849); J. A. Schnudt, 

 Fl. Cap Verd Ins. p. 305 (1852). JJalechampia sp., Welw. in 

 Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 250, n. 127. 



Ambuiz. — Widely climbing. At the banks of the river Quizembo ; 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 18.j3. Xo. 387- 



Lo.-vNUA. — Clo-sely resembling a Coni'olvulvs in habit and mode of 

 growth ; perennial. By thickets near Loanda, rather rare ; March 

 1854. No specimens preserved. C<^ll. Caup. 925. In moist bushy 

 places, widely and densely climbing among shrubs at Represa de 

 Magellaes ; fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 383- 



LiHoNGo. — A twining herb, with a Couvolvulaceous habit, hoary- 

 pubescent throughout ; branchlets mostly very intricate, in the young 

 state as well as the new leaves silky-hoary ; flowers greenish. In 

 moist thickets at the banks of the river Lifune, near Banza de Libongo ; 

 fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 385. 



Yar. cordofana Muell. arg., I.e. 



D. tripartita 11. Br. in Salt, Abyssinia, App. L\v. (1814), name 

 only. 1). cordofana Hochst. in PI. Nub. Kotsch. n. 84 {V. i., 1841), 

 and ex A. Eich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 244 (1851). 



Loanda. — A twining, widely climbing herb, apparently annual, 

 resembling an Ipomcta in habit ; leaves deep green, somewhat glabrous 

 but thinly pilose not tomentose ; involucres subglabrous, not tomentose, 

 from green to yellowish, 7- to 9-nerved. In herbaceous thickets, 

 between Penedo and Conceicao, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1858. 

 No. 384. 



C.VZKNGO.— A twining, widely climbing, strongly stinging herb, 

 beset with vehemently irritating hairs ; involucres and flowers from 

 green to yellowish. By thickets close to the banks of the river Luinha, 

 near Aguas doces, plentiful ; fl. and fr. June 18.')5. No. 388. 



MossA.MKDES. — At the bushy banks of the river Bero near 

 Mossamedes, rather rare ; fr. July 1859. No. 386. 



35. MAPROUNEA Aubl.; Benth. A- Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 333. 

 1. M. africana Muell. arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1191 (18G6). 

 BrMi'.o. — A tree 15 ft. high, loosely branched, with the habit almost 



of a Pyrus, sparingly milky ; fruiting trees, occurring in the neigh- 

 bourhood of other trees, with male spikes. In the forests of the more 



