Ceropegia] Lxxxiii. asclepiaue.-k. 695 



subulate, incurved at the apex. In hilly sandy bushy places near 

 Loanda in winter, fl. from June to Aug. 1854 and ] 858 ; in dry hilly 

 places abounding in aloes, near Maianga do Povo, about 100 ft. from 

 the ocean, very rare ; without fl. Jan. 1858, fr. 1 March IRfiS ; in 

 similar situations near Alto das Cruzes, very rare, fl. and young fr. 

 end of Feb. 1858. No. 4277- 



Var. puberula. Stem and leaves more or les.s puberulous. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers sordidly violet-greenish. In sandy thickets near 

 Lopollo, tolerably plentiful; fl. Dec. 1859 No. 4269- A climbing, 

 succulent herb, with a tuberous root and the habit of the genus. In 

 rocky elevated thickets in Morro de Lopollo, rare ; fl. March 1860. 

 A unique specimen. No. 4268- 



2. C. ang-usta N.E. Br., I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A suffruticose herb ; root formed of tuberous- 

 thickened fasciculate fibres ; stem intricately twining, purplish ; 

 flowers variegated. By streams at Pedrade Cazella in the piaisidium ; 

 fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4275. A very slender undershrub, widely but not 

 high climbing, twining, lactescent ; root-tubers fasciculate : stem 4 to 

 8 ft. long or more. In elevated bushy rocky places by the streams of 

 Pedra de Cazella ; fl. April 1857. No. 4276. 



3. C. leucotsenia K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 151. 

 GoLUNGO Alto.— A slender, rather limp, twining herb, pilo.se or 



pubescent almost throughout; juice watery, not milky : root tuberous, 

 depressedly hemispherical ; leaves softly membranous, green and 

 without any sheen above, much paler beneath ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; 

 the segments narrowly linear, densely pilose, whitish-greenish ; corolla 

 tubular-funnel-shaped : the lobes of the limb free at the base and in 

 the middle, ventrico.sely ascending, cohering at the apex, together 

 forming a loopholed cavity ; the ground-colour of the corolla pale 

 sulphur outside, deeper sulphur inside, the tube inside at the base 

 about the essential organs coloured with two purple rings and a little 

 below the throat with another purplish ring and at the same time per- 

 vaded with very fine black longitudinal lines ; the lobes of the limb 

 fine, black-striate inside at the middle, quite black at the margin and 

 apex or with a broad black margin ; staminal corona apparently 

 10-cleft, with 5-erect, club-shaped, black-shining lobes ; stigma nearly 

 flat, pentagonal ; follicles geminate, cylindrical-subulate, mammellate- 

 dilated at the apex, obtuse, smooth. At the outskirts of elevated 

 forests among the Queta mountains, near Carengue, very rare ; fl. and 

 young fr. beginning of May 1856. The young follicles in the study 

 .set are fusiform and the longer one is 3^ in. long. No. 4270- Root 

 tuberous, the tuber hemispherical. Queta mountains ; without fl. 

 Apparently this species. No. 4223. 



PuN(;() Andongo. — In a marshy thicket near Quibanga, very rare ; 

 fl. Jan. 1857. Only one specimen. No. 4271. 



4. C. volubiHs N. E. Br., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A lactescent, twining, more or less glaucous herb, 

 shaggy throughout, the pedicels with spreading hairs ; root fibrous ; 

 corolla yellowish at very bottom, in the top part and on the tube 

 outside marked with dusky spots, the ground-colour being whitish 

 yellow, the apex of the lobes ashy outside, velvety-purple and beset 

 with long purple rather rigid hairs inside, cohering at the very tip ; 

 corolla-tube pervaded with longitudinal atropurpureous lines inside ; 



