Adenia] LXI. PASSIFLOREA. 385 
The following Nos, appear also to belong to Adenia :— 
GoLuNnGo ALTo and CazenGco.—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. 1855 and Feb. 1856. Also in Serra 
de Muxaula; without fl. June 1855. Cf. A. Welwitschti Engl. Nos. 795 
and 7950. 
GoLuncGo ALTo.—A glaucous, widely 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 Mussengue ; fr. March 1857. CoLt. 
Carp. 137. Fruit ovoid, turning bluish, as large as a walnut; in 
eee a also in the densest forests of Quilombo ; fr. Feb. CoLu. 
ARP. 598. 
4. OPHIOCAULON Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. f.Gen. Pl. i. p. 813. 
1. 0. cissampeloides Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 518. 
GoLuneGo 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 1856. No. 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 1856, and not yet fl. Jan. 1856. No. 868. 
Punco ANpDoNGo.—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, /.c., p. 519 (cynanchifolius). 
GoLtuNnGo ALTO.—A climbing 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 1856. 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. 869. 
The specimen under this No. in Herb. Kew. appears to belong 
to a different species, namely, 0. gummiferum Mast., /.c., p. 518 
(gummifer), which is perhaps only a variety of O. cissampeloides. 
5. MACHADOA Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 814. 
1. M. huillensis Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 29, tab. x. (1869); 
Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 520. 
Hvitia.—In hilly and rather dry stations, stony and with short 
bushes, at an elevation of about 5000 ft., in company with Nesea 
linifolia Welw. and with species of Thymeleacee and Iridacez, 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 Passijiora ; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 in. long, somewhat fleshy ; flowers sub- 
lateral. In sandy thickets near Lopollo ; very rare. Cou. Carp. 599. 
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