Bioscorea] x. dioscoreac'e.e. 41 



base and whitish-green or pale sulphur-coloured. IMain peduncles of 

 the spikes springing from the dilated base of the petioles. Everywhere 

 by dense thickets round Sange ; fruit sought in vain. In fl. end of 

 Dec. 1855. Xo. 4049. Varzea do Isidro Coango. In fl. April to May, 

 but did not fruit. No. 4050- 



HriLi.-v. — D. j)fiiiiad<ict;/Ia Welw. A climber with tuberous root. 

 By hedges and margins of woods, but not plentiful from Lopollo to 

 Jau. Male flower and unripe fruit Dec. and March 18G0. No. 4045- 

 A climbing shrub, with 5-digitate leaves and white-yellowish flowers. 

 By hedges near Huilla, behind Catumba, May 1860. Coll. Carp. 88. 



XL LILIACEiE. 

 Tribe i. ^MILACE.E. 



1. SMILAX L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 763. 



1. S. Kraussiana Meisn. ex Krauss in Flora 1845, p. 312 ; 

 Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 264 ; A. De Cand. Men. 

 Phan. i. p. 171 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 279. 



Sinilax spp. Welw. Apont. p. 543 ; Synop.s. p. 56 (Salsa- 

 parrilha de Angola). 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Suffruticose high-climbing, leaves leathery, root 

 with fascicled fibres as in S. Sdrmparilla. Thickets near Sange, August 

 1857. No. 3861. Rhizome moniliform-tuberous. tul)ers oblong soon 

 becoming woody, provided with very long cylindrical thick fibres, 

 very like those of S. SarsccpariUa, regularly arranged along the whole 

 length ; leaves shining above. Even the I'oot-fibres are aculeate. 

 Climbing far and wide in more lofty woods and dense thickets. By 

 the cataracts of the Cuango. Picked in fl. in May, in fr. in June. 

 No. 3862. In palm woods round Cambondo and Sanches, very rarely 

 flowering ; Jan. 1855. No. 3863. 



Am BACA. — A small shrub 2 to 3 ft. high, erect, stem prickly, leaves 

 broad, leathery, shining. Flowers white to reddish. Root long fibrous, 

 closely resembling the rootlets of S. SarsajKiriUa. Plentiful on thicket- 

 grown hills between Isanga and N-gombe (stronghold of the chief of 

 Ambaca). In fl. Oct. 1856. No. 3860. 



Huir.LA. — Wooded places round the great lake Ivantala, but not 

 plentiful. In fl. 27 Feb. 18G0. No. 3864. Plentiful in the rocky 

 prim'tive woods of Serra da Xella, not far from the highest peaks. 

 In fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3865- 



Tribe ii. A SPA B AGE. E. 



2. ASPARAGUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 765. 



1. A. scoparius Lowe in Trans. Camb. PLil. Ftic. iv. p. 11 

 (1831); Baker in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 61U; Durand & 

 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 289. 



Madeira. — Near A. offic/mills but suffruticose or almost shrubby, 

 with stem woody below. Rocky places near streams between Funchal 

 and Camara dos Lobos. In fl. end of August 1853. No. 3853. 



2. A. equisetoides Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 

 i. p. 253 (1878) ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 284. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — Widely csespitose, resembling marsh-growing 

 Equisetums, in sandy places on the right of the river Cuanza. Without 



