686 Lxxxiii. ASCLEPiADE^. [Asckpias 



tuberous ; leaves rather rigid, glaucous ; flowers rosy-peach-coloured. 

 In rocky thickets on the left bank of the river Luze, sparsely ; fl. 

 Dec. 1854. No. 4182. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A very lactescent, erect herb ; root tuberous ; 

 leaves rigid, glaucous ; flowers of a very pleasant violet-purplish 

 colour. In open thickets at the banks of the river Luxillo, behind the 

 bridge, abundant; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4183. An erect stiflE lactescent 

 herb, sparingly or somewhat branched ; root tuberous ; flowers 

 whitish. On the elevated rocks of the praesidium, Pedra de Cazella, 

 plentiful ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4184. A perennial herb ; root-tubers 

 elongate-oblong ; stem erect, 2 ft. high ; leaves coriaceous, rough, 

 glaucous-green ; flowers of a very pleasant flesh-rosy colour, at length 

 turning rosy-purple. In rather dry thickets on the left bank of the 

 river Luxillo from Pungo Andongo towards the district of Cambamba, 

 sparingly ; fl. April 1857. Also occasionally but rarely met with in 

 the district of Ajibaca. No. 4185. An erect herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, 

 copiously lactescent in all parts ; stem petioles and peduncles softly 

 shaggy : flowers milk-white. In wooded pastures on the right bank 

 of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. middle of Nov. 185G. No. 4186. 

 A very lactescent, glaucous-green herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with whitish 

 flowers. In thickets among sparse trees between Caghuy and the 

 river Cuanza ; fl. end of Nov. 1856. No. 4187- 



HuiLLA. — A succulent herb, 2 to 2^ ft. high, with rosy flowers. In 

 bushy places between Eme and Quipungo, rather rare ; fl. Jan. 1860. 

 No. 4192. 



8. A. palustris Schlechter, I.e., p. 336. 

 Gomphocarjms palustris K. Sebum., I.e., p. 127. 



Pungo Andongo. — An erect herb ; root with oblong tuberous 

 enlargements on its divisions ; flowers pale rosy. On the more 

 elevated bushy parts of the gigantic rocks of the praesidium, rather 

 rare ; fl. Dec. 1856. No. 4167. 



9. A. Schumanniana. 



Gomphocarpus amcenus K. Schum., I.e., p. 124. 



Pungo Andongo. — A herb with a napiform root, glaucous-green 

 foliage, and deep violet-rosy flowers. In the more elevated thickets 

 of the pra3sidium, on Pedra de Cazella, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 1856 and 

 Jan. 1857. No. 4169. 



10. A. foliosa. 



Gomphocarpus foliosus K. Schum., I.e., p. 126. 

 HuiLLA. — Flowers of a rosy violet colour. In pastures among 

 sparse bushes, near Lopollo, rare ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4174. 



The next two Nos., with alternate or scattered rather than 

 opposite leaves, possibly belong to a species of Asclepias : — 



Pungo Andongo. — A lactescent herb ; root tuberous, large, napi- 

 form ; leaves alternate. In pastures near Calundo, never seen in 

 fl. Jan. and March 1857. No. 4236. A tuberous, lactescent herb. In 

 rocky pastures near Candumba at the river Cuanza, rather rare : 

 without fl. March 1857. No. 6742. 



11. STATHMOSTELMA K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. 

 p. 129, t. 6 (1893). 



1. S. incaruatum K. Schum., I.e., p. 130. 



