Cissampelos] iv. menispermacEjE. 19 



well as fruiting during nearly the whole year ; heights of Camilungo 

 Dec. 1854, Trombeta and Sange Sept. and Oct. 1855. No. 2311. Coll. 

 Carp. 198. 



Pungo Andongo. — An elegant twining herb; root woody, persistent ; 

 leaves in the living state ashy-tomentose on both surfaces ; flowers 

 green. In rather dry exposed hilly places, investing small shrubs, be- 

 tween the fortress and Caghuy, in young flower Feb. 1857. No. 2317. 



Var. deglabrescens Welw. ms. Fruit quite glabrous ; cotyledons 

 oblong-linear, obtuse, cohering ; albumen moderately copious, waxy, 

 continuous. Bumbo. — Sporadic in thickets at the margins of woods of 

 "Mutuate" (Copaifera Mopane Kirk), between Bumbo and Bruco ; in 

 female flower and fruit Oct. 1859. No. 2312. 



Var. reniformis Welw. ms. Leaves reniform. Huilla. — In rocky, 

 sparingly bushy places between Lopollo and Ferrao da Sola, sporadic, 

 fl. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 2314. 



Var. asperifolia Welw. ms. Leaves somewhat peltate, rather rough. 

 Golungo Alto. — Sporadic in the primitive woods of Quisucula, near 

 streams in rather shaded places, in male flower Jan. 1855. No. 2313. 



Var. owariensis Oliv., I.e., p. 46 ; C. owariensis Pal. de Beauv. ex DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 100 (1824). Cazengo. — A very slender, twining, dioecious, 

 ashy-green, widely climbing herb ; drupe pilose, girt by an acute shortly 

 winged margin. Rather rare by dense thickets at the skirts of woods 

 along the banks of the streams Luze and Luinha, near their confluence 

 at Muxaula ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 2318. 



8. STEPHANIA Lour. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 37. 



1. S. rotunda Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 608 (1790). 



S. abyssinica Walp. Kep. i. p. 96 (1842); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 p. 47. 



A slender glabrous twining shrub, 10 to 15 ft. long, widely 

 climbing, distantly branched ; leaves 2 to 4 in. long and nearly 

 as broad, peltate, broadly ovate, cuspidate or mucronate, rounded 

 straight or slightly hollowed at the base, glaucous beneath, mem- 

 branous but rather rigid; petiole 2 to 4 in.; flowers yellowish- 

 green, in compound umbels ; peduncle slender, § to 2£ in. long, 

 subaxillary. Anthers 6 or 7, whitish ; cells of all the anthers 

 confluent ; embryo horseshoe-shaped. 



Huilla. — At the margins of woods near the lake Ivantala, climbing 

 on species of _4caaa and on Brachystegia tamarindoides (Welw. No. 585), 

 in male flower and fruit in Feb. 1860. No. 2322. 



2. S. lsetificata Benth. & Hook f. Gen. PI. i. p. 962 ; Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. p. 47 ; var. angolensis. 



Golungo Alto. — A sarmentose shrub, far and widely climbing, or a 

 twining undershrub ; stem slender, climbing to a great height, tortuous, 

 rigid, elastic, beset as well as the petiole with long soft harmless hairs ; 

 leaves peltate, lamina perpendicularly pendulous ; flowers dioecious. 

 Male flowers greenish (after the manner of an Urtica), in supra-axillary 

 panicles ; calyx 6-phyllous ; segments obtuse, sub-concave, in two rows, 

 the inner ones much longer than the outer ; petals 3, rather convex, 

 very obtuse, yellow-green, rather fleshy, much broader than the calyx- 

 segments and as long. Stamens united into a column thickened at the 



