Chlorocodon] lxxxiii. asclepiadejj:. 681 



roots are distinguished by a peculiar lasting aroma and by a 

 sweet and very agreeable taste, and when cooked are employed 

 by the natives as a resolvent purgative in cases of cough and 

 other chest affections ; the root tastes quite like the liquorice of 

 Europe, and is called by the Portuguese colonists mountain or 

 wild liquorice. The fibre derived from the branches of this 

 climber is not excelled in density elasticity or lustre by that of 

 linen ; and little else is used by the natives. The bark is some- 

 times mixed with that of Crotoii Muhungo Muell. Arg. for the 

 preparation of dressings that possess gently purgative qualities 

 (see Ficalho, I.e., p. 251). 



There is in Coll. Carp. 733 a unique follicle of a climbing 

 lactescent shrub, which grew at Mussengue in Golungo Alto in 

 June 1856 and was called " Mundondo"; this follicle is 20i in. 

 long, slender, subterete, J in. in diameter near the base, tapering 

 towards the apex, and glabrous. 



5. PERIPLOCA Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 746. 

 1. P. nigrescens Afzel. Stirp. Guin. Med. i. p. 2 (1818). 



P. Preussii K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 117 (1893). 

 Golungo Alto. — In thickets in Sobato de Mussengue, rather rare ; 

 fl. Feb. 1856. No. 4232. Fl. No notes. No. 4225. 



6. SECAMONE E. Br.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 746. 



1. S. erythradenia K. Schum. in Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 141 (1893). 

 Huilla. — A low, sarmentose, twining, lactescent shrub ; leaves 



membranous, rather soft, yellowish green beneath ; flowers white or 

 green-yellowish, but little fleshy, nodding ; corolla-lobes quite patent 

 at the time of the open flower, quickly again connivent ; stamens 

 attached at the bottom of the corolla ; filaments membranous, broad, 

 a little cohering but not coalescent, forming a tiibe which includes 

 the style ; anthers apparently dehiscing transversely ; style rather 

 thick; stigma flattened, surmounted with a conical bilobed appendage ; 

 follicles lanceolate-conical, acuminate. In bushy wooded parts of 

 Morro de Lopollo, on the side towards Humpata, plentiful; fl. Jan. 1860; 

 fr. March, April and beginning of May 1860. No. 5941. 



2. S. micrandra K. Schum., I.e., p. 142. 



Golungo Alto. — A lactescent shrub, climbing widely and to a 

 great height on trees ; stem twining ; flowers yellowish. In dense 

 forests in Sobato Quilombo ; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 5942. 



3. S. platystigma K. Schum., I.e., p. 143. 



Golungo Alto. — A tall, climbing, lactescent shrub ; branches 

 quite patent ; bark orange-yellow. In dense forests near Cambondo 

 towards the river Luinha ; fl. Jan. 1855. No. 5935. A scandent, 

 twining, lactescent shrub, the sarmentose branches at length pendulous ; 

 flowers yellowish. In the primitive forests of Sobato Cabanga 

 Cacalunga, rather rare ; fl. Feb. 1855. No. 6936. A climbing 

 shrub, with yellowish flowers. Mussengue roadway ; fr. June 1856. 

 No. 5937. At N-delle ; fl. June 1855. No. 5943. A shrub, climbing 

 high and, widely, abounding in a bitter milky juice ; flowers yellow, 

 but little fragrant. In dense forests near Cambondo ; fl. Jan. 1856. 



