Boemia] Lxxxiii. asclbpiadejE. 691 



near Muria ; fl. Sept. 1855 ; also at the outskirts of the forest between 

 Muria and Trombeta, rather sparingly ; fl. 18 Sept. 1854. Found 

 also near Sange. The best time for its flowering is April and May. 

 No. 4244. A widely climbing, twining, lactescent undershrub or herb ; 

 leaves cordate ; flowers white ; follicles divaricate, beset with herba- 

 ceous prickles. In thickets by the king's highway near Sange, by Ponte 

 de Luiz Simoes, plentiful ; fr. July 1857. Coll. Cabp. 162. 



MossAMEDES. — A perennial, extensively climbing, twining, copiously 

 lactescent, glaucous-green herb ; peduncles elongated, umbelhf erous ; 

 pedicels pendulous ; flowers purplish ; follicles geminate, elongated, 

 ovoid-lanceolate, falcate, compressed-cylindrical, gradually subulate 

 towards the apex, greenish, muriculate, pilose-subhispidulous in parts. 

 In sandy thickets at the banks of the river Bero, plentiful ; fl. and fr. 

 end of July 1859. No. 4246. 



This is the Asclepiad mentioned and shortly described by Welwitsch, 

 Apontam. p. 590. n. 90 (1859). 



18. GYBTNEMA Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 769. 



1. G. geminatum Br. Prodr. PL Nov. HoU. p. 462 (1810). 



Periphca sylvesUis Retz, Obs. Bot. ii. p. 15 (1781) G. sylvestre 

 Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. p. 57 (1820). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrublet, spread on the ground or twining and 

 climbing after the manner of species of Sarcostemma, with one of which 

 it was in company. On lofty ledges of the gigantic rocks of the 

 praesidium, Pedra Songue ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 4198. 



HuiLLA. — A climbing or sarmentose shrub, with tortuous branches 

 and whitish-yellowish flowers. In thinly wooded parts of Morro de 

 Lopollo, at Ferrao da Sola ; fl. Dec. 1859 and Feb. 1860, fr. April 1860. 

 No. 4242. • 



19. TYLOPHORA Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 770. 



1. T. sylvatiea Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, ix. 273 (1838). 

 Vincetoxicum sylvaticum 0. Kuntze,E,ev. Gen. PI. ii.p. 425(1891). 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A very lactescent herb, with atropurpureous flowers. 

 At the outskirts of palm groves near Sanches, sparingly ; fl. Feb. 1855. 

 No. 4230. In thickets in the Sange country ; fl. and fr. No. 4231. 



2. T. conspicua KE. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 258. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A slender, widely climbing, lactescent shrub ; stems 



virgate-sarmentose, very tenacious, affording a fibre well adapted for 

 making ropes ; flowers purple. In the primitive forests of Sobato 

 Mussengue and at Sange ; fl. Oct. 1856. Branchlets patent. No. 4212. 

 A twining, lactescent, sufEruticose herb, with sordid atropurpureous 

 flowers. By thickets in Sobato Bumba, near Sange, rather rare ; fl. 

 March 1855. No. 4214. A shrub, climbing high and widely; root 

 officinal ; leaves edible, membranous, deciduous ; juice watery-viscid ; 

 follicles greenish, smooth, angular-cylindrical, 2 to 2J in. long, about 

 \ in. in diameter, a little tapering towards the apex, more plainly 

 angular at the apex, very blunt ; all the angles obtuse. In damp 

 forests at the banks of the river Delamboa, in company with Kigelia 

 pinnata DC. (Welw. herb. no. 489), very rarely flowering ; young fr. and 

 a few fl. April 1856. The seeds were, unfortunately, not examined by 

 Welwitsch; the fruits were hung up to dry and were eaten by monkeys ; 

 a fruit in the herbarium measures 4 in. long. No. 4215. Seeds of the 

 climbing shrub called " Mundondo," together with the placenta. In 



