680 Lxxxiii. ASCLEPiADE.E. [Raphionacme 



Loan DA. — In dry hilly spariDgly bushy places near Boa Vista, not 

 far from the ocean; scarcely in good fl. middle of March 1858. No. 4274- 



4. CHLOROCODON Hook, f.; Benth. k Hook. f.Gen.Pl. ii. p. 745. 



1. C. Whiteii Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5898 (1871) ; K. Schiim. 

 in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 215, fig. 64 {Whitei) (1895); 

 Feriploca latifolia K. Schum. in. Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afrik., C, p. 321, 

 & A, p. 94(1895). 6'A;orocorfowsp.,Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 223(1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Root the most aromatic of all the plants examined 

 by Welwitsch in the interior of Angola, turning sweet when dry, 

 called by the Portuguese colonists " Alcaruz " (liquoi'ice), and used 

 when mixed with Xile or Abutua (Tiliacora rhri/xobotri/a Welw.) as 

 an emollient decoction ; aroma like that of Canella ; stem climbing 

 far and wide, bent and twisted in various directions. In elevated 

 places among the Queta mountains near Sange ; in leaf, not yet in fl. 

 June 1855. No. 4211. A tall, cHmbing plant ; root used like 

 liquorice, with a peculiar aromatic sweet taste. In the dense forests 

 on the northern sides of the Queta mountains ; without fl. or fr. end 

 of May 1855. Native name " Mulondo " or " Mundondo." No. 6013. 

 A climbing lactescent shrub, with a sweet root. Near Lendo, Cacusa- 

 Sensala, Queta ; without either fl. or fr. end of Aug. 1855. No. 4217. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub or rather a woody undershrub, climbing 

 high and widely, lactescent ; fibre very fine and tenacious, silvery- 

 glossy ; flowers violet-purple. By rocks along streams throughout the 

 proesidium ; fl. Jan. 1857. Native name " Mundondo " or " Jindondo." 

 No. 4218. A tall, climbing shrub, affording very tenacious fibre, with 

 agreeably edible foliage and violet-coloured flowers. In the forests 

 of Pungo Andongo, not uncommon but rather rarely flowering ; fl. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 4219. A lactescent shrublet, elongate- scandent. In 

 Barrancos de Songue, without either fl. or fr. April 1857. Probably 

 this species. No. 4220. 



Bumbo. — A lactescent, twining shrub, climbing widely and high ; 

 root thick, succulent, with a very agreeable aromatic scent, and sweet 

 taste as in Glycyrrhk((. Corolla greenish-livid outside, deep violet- 

 purple inside ; corona of the stamens duplex, green, the outer one 

 with 5 lanceolate-linear erect scales, the inner one with 10 ovate- 

 rounded patent appendages. In rocky places along the Bruco stream 

 at an elevation of a,bout 1500 ft., in dense forests climbing on Evgenia 

 Ixnquellends Welw. herb. no. 4395, not uncommon ; as yet sparmgly 

 in fi. towards end of Oct. 1859. The same plant occurs also in the 

 districts of Golungo Alto, Cazengo, and Pungo Andongo. No. 4221. 



The determinations of the above-quoted Nos., so fur as they are 

 not accompanied with flowers, mvxst be received with some doubt ; 

 for this species in most other respects bears a remarkably close 

 resemblance to Tylophora consjncita, and is known in Golungo 

 Alto by the same native name of " Mundondo." According to 

 Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 32, n. 79 &p. 42, n. 116, Mundondo 

 grows in the dense forests of nearly all the mountainous districts 

 from Alto Dande to Serra da Chella, and its leaves when cooked 

 and treated with olive oil or butter afford a savoury substitute 

 for spinach, and are so used both by the natives and by the 

 Portuguese colonists ; the more slender branches suitably 

 macerated furnish excellent fibre for ropes, etc. ; moreover, its 



