Raphionacme] lxxxiii. asclepiade^. 679 



lactescent climber ; at Zamba, June 1857. The follicle measures about 

 3 in. in length. Possibly this species. Coll. Carp. 740. Dry stems 

 with follicles only seen ; journey from Pungo Audongo to Ambaca at 

 an elevation of 3500 ft., June 1857. Possibly this species. Coll. 

 Carp. 156. 



The next following No., in which the follicles measure lyto 

 If in. long by \ to i in. thick and are puberulous and the leaves 

 measure 2 to 3 in. long by 1|^ to \\ in. broad, should be compared 

 with this species and also with R. angolends Benth. & Hook. f. 

 ex K. Schum. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 221 (1895) :— 



PuNGO Andongo. — A copiously lactescent herb ; rootstock sub- 

 tubercular, persistent ; stems climbing, 2 to 4 or even 5 but mostly 

 only 2 ft. long, red ; leaves deep green above, velvety beneath ; 

 flowers purple. In rocky places at Pedras de Gruinga, very sparingly ; 

 fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 4235. 



3. E. globosa K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 118 

 (9 May 1893), & in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 221 (1895). 



Huilla. — An erect lactescent herb, a foot high ; rootstock tuberous, 

 perennial ; stems several, simple ; leaves opposite, lanceolate-linear, 

 glaucescent-green, patent or even reflected ; flowers white, congested 

 in a capitate manner at the apex of the stems. In secondary thickets 

 near Lopollo, very rare ; fl. beginning of Dec. 1859. A unique 

 specimen. No. 4178. 



4. R. Loandse Schleohter & Rendle ms. in. herb. Mus. Brit. 



A low, sparingly lactescent herb ; rootstock somewhat woody, 

 persisting ; stems twining, slender, closely beset with short pallid 

 hairs, somewhat branched ; branches patent, leafy ; leaves 

 opposite, narrowly ovate elliptical or obovate, obtusely narrowed 

 or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, rather thickly 

 herbaceous, deep green and scattered with short pallid curved 

 hairs above, paler and more densely clothed with similar hairs 

 beneath, undulate on the entire margin, sessile subsessile or 

 shortly quasi-petiolate, i to 1^ in. long \>j ^ to ^ in. broad ; 

 inflorescence short, few-flowered, bracteate, about as long as the 

 leaves, alternate, pendulous from the upper axils of the branches ; 

 bracts ovate or lanceolate, -^ in. long or less ; common peduncle 

 and pedicels short or very short ; flowers herbaceous-green ; calyx 

 widely campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, beset outside with short 

 pallid spreading curved hairs, glabrous and shining inside, i in. 

 long ; the lobes acuminate from an ovate-oblong base ; unex- 

 panded corolla \ in. long or rather more, scattered with short 

 spreading pallid hairs outside, glabrous inside, somewhat salver - 

 shaped, shortly 5-cleft; the tube marked inside with 5 longi- 

 tudinal ridges; the lobes contorted in sestivation, extrorsely 

 induplicate at the margin, obtuse ; corona-scales purple, tripartite, 

 the central segment subulate, twice the length of the deltoid 

 lateral segments ; stamens from whitish to rosy ; style bearded 

 below the stigma, glabrous towards the base. Inside the base 

 of the calyx there are glabrous, short, truncate, approximately 

 placed glands or scales. 



