Adenia] LXi. passiflore.e. 385 



The following Nos. appear also to belong to Adenia : — 

 GoLUNOt) Ai.TO and Cazen<;<). — A glaucous tall-climbing herb, with 

 soft leaves, rather tender, membranous or a little fleshy, very quickly 

 becoming flaccid, very dark-green, variegated with pale-green spots ; 

 by the banks of the river Cuango, near the cataract of Sange, in 

 shaded forests ; without fl. Dec. 1S55 and Feb. 185(3. Also in Serra 

 de Muxaula; without tt. June 1855. Cf. ^1. Welioitsdui Engl. Xos. 795 

 and 795i. f^ 



GonN(;o Alto. — A glaucous,iwidely climbing herb ; flowers greenish- 

 white, small ; fruit as large as a hazel-nut, greenish when ripe ; leaves 

 very glaucous, with the blade marked with whitish spots, and below 

 pallid ; in thickets in Sobato de 3Iussengue ; fr. March 1857. Coll. 

 Cakp. 137. Fruit ovoid, turning bluish, as large as a walnut ; in 

 thickets and also in the densest forests of Quilombo ; fr. Feb. Coll. 

 Carp. 598. 



4. OPHIOCAULON Hook. f. in Benth. &IIook. f.Gen. PI. i. p. 813. 



1. 0. cissampeloides Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 518. 

 GoLUNGo Alto. — A shrub or undershrub widely climbing, 3 to 4 ft. 



high or more, herbaceous above, hard-woody below, wholly glaucous ; 

 flowers rather fleshy, greenish. In the very dense primitive forests of 

 Sobato de Bumba, not uncommon, but rarely flowering ; fl. from Jan. 

 to May 185G. Xo. 866. A tall climber, shrubby ; leaves juicy- 

 membranous, deep green and spotted with white above, glaucous 

 below ; flowers yellow-greenish. Not seen in fruit in this district. 

 Not uncommon in the denser shaded and moist palm groves about 

 Sange ; fl. March IS,')!'), and not yet fl. Jan. IHotJ. No. 868- 



PuNco An'doxgo. — In the primitive forest of Mata de Quilanga, 

 near Pungo Andongo; only one specimen ; fr. end of May 1857. No. 867- 



2. 0. cynanchifolium Masters, I.e., p. 519 (ci/nanchi/oUus). 

 GoLUNfio Alto. — A cHmbing herb, somewhat shrubby at the base ; 



lower leaves 3-lobed. In the denser forests on the eastern side of 

 Serra de Alto Queta, Zenza do Queta ; a young plant not yet in fl. May 

 and June 185(5. No. 869. Stems with leaves but without flowers, in 

 rather shaded and wooded stations, among the mountains of Serra de 

 Alto Queta, Dec. 1855. No. 869/^. A climbing herb, apparently 

 annual ; climbing on palms in woods near the river Cuango, at 

 Cacarambola ; leafy branches, Jan. 1856. No. 869c. 



The specimen under this No. in Herb. Kew. appears to belong 

 to a different species, namely, 0. gummiferuin Mast., I.e., p. 518 

 {gummifer), which is perhaps only a variety of 0. cissamjjeloidss. 



5. MACHADOA Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 814. 



1. M. huillensis Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 29, tab. x. (1869); 

 Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 520. 



HuiLLA. — In hilly and rather dry stations, stony and with short 

 bushes, at an elevation of about 500(1 ft., in company with Nescea 

 Unifolia "Welw. and with species of Thymela;acea3 and Iridaccae, near 

 Lopollo ; seen only in one spot : fl. and young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 865. 

 Root napiform, not milky ; capsules many-seeded, 1] in. long (in the 

 dry state) ; placentas parietal ; seeds as in some species of Passijhrii ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate. 4 to 5 in. long, somewhat fleshy ; flowers sub- 

 lateral. In sandy thickets near LopoUo ; very rare. Coll. Carp. 599. 



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