Marsdenia] lxxxiii. asclepiade^. 693 



The following No. possibly belongs here, but the leaves are 

 more cordiform nearly glabrescent and range up to 4 in. long by 

 3 in. broad ; the follicles are nearly 3 in. long by ^ in. broad. 



GrOLUNGO Alto. — At the residency, Sange ; in f r. No. 4229. 



The following No. has the habit of M. criniia Oliv. in Hook. 

 Ic. PI. XX. t. 1993 (Aug. 1891), a species from the Niger country; 

 the leaves of our plant are rather larger and more deeply cordate 

 at the base : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A softly shaggy, widely climbing herb, with 

 herbaceous bright green long-ciliate leaves. In the elevated forests 

 among the Queta mountains ; without either fl. or fr. beginning of 

 April 1856. No. 6201. 



22. FOCKEA Endl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 773. 



1. F. multiflora K. Schum. in. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 145 

 (9 May 1893). 



F. Schinzii N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 259 (Oct. 1895). 



Bumbo. — A large shrub, with yellow-greenish flowers and lanceolate- 

 subulate follicles 4 in. long or more. In Matas de Unteate (the 

 forests composed of Copaiba MopaneO. Kuntze; Welw. herb.no. 605), 

 between Bumbo and Bruco ; fl. and fr. at the same time on the same 

 individual shrubs but without leaves, Oct. 1859. No. 4194. 



The following should be compared with this species ; the seeds 

 are glabrous : — 



Bumbo. — An arborescent shrub, climbing far and high, almost 

 leafless ; trunk 1 to 85 ft. in diameter at the base ; flowers greenish. 

 In the Unteate forests between Bumbo and Bruco, but only in a few 

 spots ; ripe fr. (5^ in. long) and fl. Oct. 1859. " Veneno de Leao" 

 (lion-poison). Coll. Carp. 6. 



23. DREGEA E. Mey. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 775 ; 

 non Eckl. & Zeyh. 



1. D. rubicunda K. Schum, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 147 

 (9 May 1893), and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 326, t. 39, fig. 

 A— H. (2 Aug. 1895). 



LiBONCo. — A slender, sarmentoae, lactescent, high climbing, patently 

 branched shrub ; leaves membranous, bright green above, paler 

 beneath, turning more or less yellowish in course of drying ; flowers 

 from greenish to whitish ; calyx hoary-tomentose ; corolla from 

 greenish to yellowish outside, whitish inside. In the denser forests at 

 the banks of the river Lifune near Banza de Libongo, at Arimo do 

 Senhor Freire, not plentiful ; fl. Sept. 1858. No. 4227. 



Cazengo. — A tall climbing, twining, lactescent undershrub, with 

 greenish-yellowish rather fleshy leaves and flowers. In the dense 

 forests of Mux^ulo, rather rare ; fl. Dec. 1854. No. 4226. 



Bumbo. — A shruh, climbing to a great height (up to 100 ft.) and at 

 length widely spread over the surface of the crown of trees and there 

 flowering. In Serra da Chella ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4248. 



HuiLLA. — Near the Banza ; in young fr. 6 April 1860. Perhaps 

 this species. No. 4249. 



