Ceropegia] lxxxiii. asclepiadejE. 695 



subulate, incurved at the apex. In hilly sandy bushy places near 

 Loanda in winter, fl. from June to Aug. 1854 and 1 858 ; in dry hilly 

 places abounding in aloes, near Maianga do Povo, about 100 ft. from 

 the ocean, very rare ; without fl. Jan. 1858, fr. 1 March 1858 ; in 

 similar situations near Alto das Cruzes, very rare, fl. and young fr. 

 end of Feb. 1858. No. 4277. 



Var. puberula. Stem and leaves more or less puberulous. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers sordidly violet-greenish. In sandy thickets near 

 Lopollo, tolerably plentiful ; fl. Dec. 1859, No. 4269. A climbing, 

 succulent herb, with a tuberous root and the habit of the genus. In 

 rocky elevated thickets in Morro de Lopollo, rare ; fl. March 1860. 

 A unique specimen. No. 4268. 



2. C. angusta N.E. Br., I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A sufEruticose herb ; root formed of tuberous- 

 thickened fasciculate fibres ; stem intricately twining, purplish ; 

 flowers variegated. By streams at Pedra de Cazella in the prsesidium ; 

 fl. Jan. 1857. No. 4275. A very slender undershrnb, widely but not 

 high climbing, twining, lactescent ; root-tubers fasciculate ; stem 4 to 

 8 ft. long or more. In elevated bushy rocky places by the streams of 

 Pedra de Cazella ; fl. April 1857. No. 4276. 



3. C. leucotaenia K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 151. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A slender, rather limp, twining herb, pilose or 



pubescent almost throughout; juice watery, not milky ; root tuberous, 

 depressedly hemispherical ; leaves softly membranous, green and 

 without any sheen above, much paler beneath ; calyx deeply 5-oleft ; 

 the segments narrowly linear, densely pilose, whitish-greenish ; corolla 

 tubular-funnel-shaped ; the lobes of the limb free at the base and in 

 the middle, ventricosely ascending, cohering at the apex, together 

 forming a loopholed cavity ; the ground-colour of the corolla pale 

 sulphur outside, deeper sulphur inside, the tube inside at the base 

 about the essential organs coloured with two purple rings and a little 

 below the throat with another purplish ring and at the same time per- 

 vaded with very fine black longitudinal lines ; the lobes of the limb 

 fine, black-striate inside at the middle, quite black at the margin and 

 apex or with a broad black margin ; staminal corona apparently 

 10-cleft, with 6-erect, club-shaped, black-shining lobes ; stigma nearly 

 flat, pentagonal ; follicles geminate, cylindrical-subulate, mammellate- 

 dilated at the apex, obtuse, smooth. At the outskirts of elevated 

 forests among the Queta mountains, near Carengue, very rare ; fl. and 

 young fr. beginning of May 1856. The young follicles in the study 

 set are fusiform and the longer one is 3J in. long. No. 4270. Root 

 tuberous, the tuber hemispherical. Queta mountains ; without fl. 

 Apparently this species. No. 4223. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In a marshy thicket near Quibanga, very rare ; 

 fl. Jan. 1867. Only one specimen. No. 4271. 



4. C. volubilis N". E. Br., I.e. 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A lactescent, twining, more or less glaucous herb, 

 shaggy throughout, the pedicels with spreading hairs ; root fibrous ; 

 corolla yellowish at very bottom, in the top part and on the tube 

 outside marked with dusky spots, the ground-colour being whitish 

 yellow, the apex of the lobes ashy outside, velvety-purple and beset 

 with long purple rather rigid hairs inside, cohering at the very tip ; 

 corolla-tube pervaded with longitudinal atropurpureous lines inside ; 



