Asdepias] lxxxiii. ASCLBPiADEiE. 685 



fleshy ; flowers oohroleucous. In the more elevated rocky parts of 

 Pungo Andongo ; fl. Dec. 1856 and Feb. 1857. No. 4162. On the 

 tops of the rocks of Pedra de Cabondo, at an elevation of 3500 ft. ; 

 fl. April 1857. No. 4163. 



HiTiLLA. — Flowers whitish-yellowish. In the rocky thickets of 

 Lopollo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4166. 



This plant is nearly related to A.fluvidn N.E. Br. in KewBuU. 1895, 

 p. 255 (Oct. 1895), a species from Somali-land, but differs from it by 

 the scarcely acute corolla-lobes pilose on the back and by the straight 

 and erect rather than falcate and abruptly reflected teeth on the inner 

 angles of the folded corona-scales. It differs from Gomphocarpus 

 tomentosus Burch. by the inflated fruit. 



4. A. denticulata Schlechter in Journ. Bot. xxxiii. p. 334 (1895). 

 LiBONGO. — An undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, sparingly branched, 



erect ; leaves glaucous-green ; flowers whitish ; follicles green, obovoid- 

 globose, in old age turning pale yellow. In swampy places about the 

 lake on the right bank of the river Lifune, near the plantations of 

 Senhor Freire ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 4159. A copiously 

 lactescent, sparingly branched, narrow-leaved shrub of 3 to 4 ft., 

 with white flowers. In damp places about the lake near Libongo ; 

 fr. Sept. 1858. Coll. Cakp. 127. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A perennial herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, succulent, glaucous-green ; flowers white, asin A. fruticosa. 

 In marshy parts of palm-groves composed of Raphia textilis Welw. 

 (herb. no. 6671), on the right bank of the river Quiapoze ; roadway 

 near Menha Lula ; fl. Jan. 1855 ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4158. 



5. A. frutieosa L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 216 (1753). 

 Gomphocarpusfruticosus Ait. Hoi't. Kew., edit. 2, ii. p. 80 (1811). 

 MossAMEDES. — An erect undershrub ; stems several, 4 to 5 ft. high ; 



flowering branches erect-speading ; leaves herbaceous, deep green ; 

 flowers whitish. In sandy thickets a*-, the banks of the rivers Bero 

 and Giraul, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. June to Aug. 1859. No. 4164. 

 Apparently an undershrub although 4 to 6 ft. high, for the stems 

 perish nearly to the rhizome each year ; flowers whitish. In moist 

 bushy places at the margins of the river Bero near Cavalheiros, etc. ; 

 fl. and young fr. June 1860. No. 4165. 



6. A. semiamplectens. 



Gomphocarpus semiamplectens K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xvii. p. 128 (9 May 1893). 



Pungo Andongo. — An erect, sparingly branched, very lactescent 

 herb, 2 to 2^ ft. high, with the habit quite of a large Cerinthe ; root 

 napiform ; branches erect-spreading ; leaves broadly ovate, cordate, 

 secund, adpressed to the stem, glaucous-shining ; pedicels reddening ; 

 flowers nodding ; the calyx and lobes of the corolla yellowish green ; 

 staminal corona yellowish ; follicles inflated, ovoid, nearly glabrous. 

 In a sandy wooded thicket near Oazella, plentiful but only in one 

 place ; fl. and fr. beginning of Jan. 1 857. No. 4188. 



7. A. liueolata Schlechter, I.e., p. 336. 



Gom,phocarpus lineolatus Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, ix. 

 p. 326 (1838). G. hisacculatus Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, 

 ii. p. 341 (Oct. 1887). 



Cazenco. — An erect, lactescent herb, 2 to 2 J ft. high ; root 



