Stathmostelma] lxxxiii. asclepiade^e. 687 



HuiLLA.— Flowers brilliantly blood-red. At the Mumpulla lake • 

 fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4176. 



In the study set there is a follicle measuring rather more than 3 in. 

 long by i in. broad. 



2. S. Welwitsohii Britten & Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, 

 iv. p. 28, in note (1894). 



Asclepias Welvntschii Britten <fe Rendle, I.e. 



Pottgo Andongo. — A very lactescent herb ; root tuberous, napif orm, 

 hard, perennial ; stem erect, branched, 2J to 4 ft. high ; leaves green- 

 ish, somewhat glaucescent and fleshy ; flowers resembling those of a 

 Chircmia, very deep orange in colour. In the more elevated sandy 

 thickets near Pedras de Guinga, very rare ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4168. 

 In the study set there is a specimen with a single flower from the 

 same locality, apparently of this'species. No. 4168&. 



12. CALOTROPIS R. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 754. 

 1. C. procera Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 2, ii. p. 78 (1811) ; Schmidt, 



Fl. Cap. Verd. p. 215 (1852); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 222 (1894). 



Asdepias procera Ait. Hort. Kew., edit. 1, i. p. 305 (1789). 



Cape de Vekde Islands. — A fleshy, copiously lactescent, glaucous 

 shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, sparingly branched from the base ; flowers 

 whitish purple. In cultivated as well as in uncultivated places along 

 the skirts of fields, etc., near Cidade da Praia in St. Jago, where it is 

 called " Bombardeira " by the inhabitants ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. 

 No. 4180. A perennial plant, 4 to 8 ft. high, remarkably ornamental 

 in the level spaces ; stem straight, branched ; leaves very large, 

 glaucous ; flowers rosy- white. In the island of St. Jago ; f r. beginning 

 of Jan. 1861. Coll. Caep. 21. 



13. PENTARRHINUM B. Mey. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL 

 ii. p. 758. 



1. P. insipidum E. Mey. Comment. PI. Afr. Austr. p. 200 

 (1837) ; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. p. 7, t. 11 (1859). 



Ambriz.— Quizembo ; fl. Nov. 1853. No. 4199. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — A twining herb, with bright green thinly rather 

 fleshy foliage and white flowers. Near the Lagoa de Foto, tolerably 

 abundant ; fl. Sept. 1857. No. 4240. 



LoANDA. — A lactescent, twining herb ; stems widely and intricately 

 climbing but scarcely more than 6 ft. high ; leaves cordate, glaucous- 

 green, soft ; flowers white ; follicles rarely seen, ovoid-conical, blunt. 

 By and in thickets near Penedo ; fl. end of April 1868 ; fr. July 1854 

 and July 1858. No. 4237 and Coll. Carp. 736. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A climbing lactescent undershrub, with white 

 flowers. At Elinda grande in Terras de Bumba ; fl. May 1855. 

 No. 4238. A tender, lactescent, climbing herb ; leaves herbaceous- 

 green, but little glaucescent, soft, flaccid ; calyx green ; corolla also 

 herbaceous-green, at the time of the open flower rotately patent ; 

 staminal corona brilliantly white, rather fleshy ; the segments 5, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, involute at the apex and at the lateral margins 

 near the base. At the outskirts of forests along the banks of the 

 river Quiapose, rather rare ; fl. March 1856. No. 4239. 



Bumbo. — Flowers white. In the rocky thickets of Nene towards 

 Empalanca ; fl. end of March 1860. No. 4247- 



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