696 Lxxxiii. ASCLEPIADE^. [Ceropegia 



the throat and lobes marked with dusky-purple reticulations inside 

 except the apex of the lobes. By the lower thickets at the river 

 Coango in the Queta mountains, near Sange, behind Senhor Rodrigo's 

 house ; very rare ; il. March 1856. No. 4372. On bushy slopes on 

 the right bank of the river Coango, behind Rodrigo's house ; without 

 either fl. or fr. May 1856. No. 42726. 



5. C. seandens N. E. Br., I.e., p. 262. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A twining herb ; juice watery ; leaves rather 

 fleshy and limp, deep green and without sheen above, paler beneath ; 

 coroUa pale sulphur in colour outside, punctate with blood-red specks ; 

 the lobes of the limb elongate-ovate, cohering at the apex, beset inside 

 at the tip with rather long white hairs, marked at the medium with 

 a large atropurpureous spot ; staminal corona 5-lobed ; the lobes 

 ligulate, yellow, incurved at the apex ; anthers simple at the apex. 

 In the lower sparse thickets by hills on the right bank of the river 

 Coango, near Sange, rather rare and solitary ; fl. 2 Dec. 1855. 

 No. 4273. A suffruticose, sparingly lactescent herb, with long 

 sarmentose branches ; root flbrillose, not tuberous ; flowers variegated 

 with ashy and violet colours, lantern-shaped. On bushy slopes on the 

 right bank of the river Coango, very rare ; fl. Jan. 1856. No. 42736. 



6. C. pumila N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1898, p. 693 (Nov.). 



A herb, apparently climbing ; juice watery, not milky ; root 

 tuberous ; the tuber sordidly whitish, depressedly hemispherical, 

 somewhat rugulose, circular in horizontal figure, flattened or 

 slightly convex at top and bottom, giving off from the latter 

 descending fibres, 1 to 2 in. in diameter, fleshy, white inside ; 

 stems several, 2 or 3 from one tuber, pale green, sparingly clothed 

 here and there vrith short whitish hairs ; leaves opposite, lanceo- 

 late, setiilose-ciliate on the margin with rather rigid spreading 

 whitish cilia, glaucous-green or obscurely hoary-green above, 

 pale glaucescent lepidote-rugulose, rather shining, and somewhat 

 whitish beneath, rather fleshy, ranging up to 2 in. long by —^ in. 

 broad ; petiole short, semi-amplexicaul, canaliculate ; peduncles 

 axillary ^ in. long deflexed with subcorymbose short pedicels curved 

 upwards at the middle, or extra-axillary short clustered 2 to 4 

 together one-flowered bracteate ; flowers lurid-dusky outside, 

 velvety-atropurpureous inside ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, with ovate- 

 lanceolate rather fleshy-tumid lobes, many times shorter than the 

 corolla ; corolla tubular ; the tube scattered outside with whitish 

 hairs, obscurely purple-velvety inside, ventricose at the base, 

 constricted and curved upwards in the middle ; the mouth wide, 

 5-cleft, with narrow linear acuminate ciliate erect-spreading 

 lobes; staminal corona truncate-campanulate, the outer 5-lobed, 

 the lobes very obtuse, the whole atropurpureous ; genitalia in- 

 cluded, nestling in the basal ventricose part of the corolla, 

 quasi-cyathiform, yellowish. 



HuiLLA. — In a rocky bushy spot near Lopollo, at an elevation of 

 about 5200 ft. ; fl. April 1860. No. 4267. 



The same plant was cultivated at Lisbon in the garden of Wel- 

 witsch's friend, Dom Lucena, in Sept. 1863, when another flowering 

 stem was produced, 4 to 6 in. high, weakly erect, with corymbose flowers. 



