Marsdenia] Lxxxiii. ascleptade.e. 693 



The following No. possiljly belon<fs hero, but the leaves are 

 more cordiform nearly glabre.scent and range up to 4 in. long by 

 3 in. broad ; the follicles are nearly 3 in. long by ^ in. l)road. 



GoLUxao Ai.To. — At the residency, Sange ; ia fr. No. 4229. 



The following No. has the habit of J/, crinita Oliv. in Hook. 

 Ic. Pi. XX. t. 1993 (Aug. 1891), a species fi'om the Niger country ; 

 the leaves of our plant are rather larger and more deeply cordate 

 at the base : — 



GoLuxCrO Alto. — A softly shaggy, widely climbing herb, with 

 herbaceous bright green long-ciliate leaves. In the elevated forests 

 among the Queta mountains : without either ti. or fr. beginning of 

 April 185(3. No. 6201. 



22. FOCKEA Endl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Cen. PI. ii. p. 773. 



1. F. multiflora K. Schum. in. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 145 

 (9 May 1893). 



F. Sckinzii N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 259 (Oct. 1895). 



Bi'MBO.^ — A large shrub, with yellow-greenish flowers and lanceolate- 

 subulate follicles 4 in. long or more. In Matas de Unteate (the 

 forests composed of Copailm Jfojjane O. Kuntze: Welw. herb. no. 605), 

 between Bumbo and Bruco ; fl. and fr. at the same time on the same 

 individual shrubs but without leaves, Oct. 1850. No. 4194. 



The following should be compared with this species ; the seeds 

 are glabrous : — 



BrMi'.d. — An arborescent shrub, climbing far and high, almost 

 leafless : trunk 1 to 3h ft. in diameter at the base ; flowers greenish. 

 In the Unteate forests between Bumbo and Bruco, but only in a few 

 spots ; ripe fr. (bh in. long) and fl. Oct. 1859. " Veueno de Leiio " 

 (lion-poison). Coll. Carp. 6. 



23. DREGEA E. Mey. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 775 ; 

 lion Eckl. & Zeyh. 



1. D. rubieunda K. 8chum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 147 

 (9 May 1893), and in Engl. Pfl. 0.st-Afr., 0., p. 326, t. 39. lig. 

 A— H. (2 Aug. 1895). 



LiBOXGO. — A slender, sarmentose, lactescent, high climbing, patently 

 branched shrub ; leaves membranous, bright green above, paler 

 i)eneath, turning more or less yellowish in course of drying ; flowers 

 from greenish to whitish ; calyx hoary-tomentose ; corolla from 

 greenish to yellowish outside, whitish inside. In the denser forests at 

 the banks of the river Lifune near Banza de Libongo, at Arimo do 

 8enhor Freire, not plentiful ; fl. Sept. 1858. No. 4227. 



C.\ZENGo. — A tall climbing, twining, lactescent uudershrub, with 

 ofreenish-yellowish rather fleshy leaves and flowers. In the dense 

 forests of Muxaulo, rather rare ; fl. Dec. 1854. No. 4226. 



Bimbo. — A shrub, climbing to a great height (up to lOl) ft.) and at 

 length widely spread over the surface of the crown of trees and there 

 flowering. In Serra da Chella ; fl. Oct. 185;». No. 4248- 



HuiLL.v. — Near the Banza ; in young fr. 5 April 18G0. Perhaps 

 this species. No. 4249. 



