162 xl. ampehdEjE. [Cissus- 



in each cell, ascending ; style at the time of flowering a little shorter 

 than the stamens, soon after flowering rather elongated ; stigma obtuse, 

 at the time of flowering parting at the apex by a very thin chink, after 

 flowering bilobed ; lobes spreading horizontally ; fruit obovoid-oblong, 

 greenish-purple, a little juicy, rather hard, l-celled, 1-seeded ; seed 

 erect, obovoid ; testa hard-crustaceous, whitish ; endopleura deeply 

 induplicate with the albumen. In open clayey-sandy dry stony 

 thickets, between the river Lutete and Zamba ; fl. and fr. 17 Oct. 1856. 

 Abundant but seen only in one locality. No. 1474. 



The species occurs also in the interior of Angola at Caconda. The 

 resemblance of the foliage to a branch of Fucus serratus, mentioned by 

 Baker, holds in the case of badly dried specimens but scarcely in those 

 of Welwitsch. It is the plant referred to by Welwitsch in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. viii. p. 75 (1864) as probably a new genus. 



17. C. maeropus Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. p. 77 (1864); 

 Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 582. 



Vitis maeropus Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5479 (1864) ; Baker in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 405 ; Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 5. 



Mossamedes, — A dwarf tree, 1 to 3 ft. high. In dry rocky moun- 

 tainous (almost salt) parts of the district, especially on the sides of the 

 mountains of Serra de Montes Negros near Mossamedes and in the 

 interior parts of Giraul towards the east, at an elevation of 400 to 600 

 ft. ; without fl. or fr. July (and Sept.) 1859 ; with flowers in cultivation 

 in the Lumiar Garden at Lisbon May 1862. No. 1446. 



18. C. adenocaulis Steud. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. iii. n. 

 1702; A. Bich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. p. Ill (1847); Planch. Monogr, 

 Ampelid. p. 586. 



Vitis tenuicaulis Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 404 pro 

 parte. V. adenocaulis Miq. Ann .Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat., i. p. 79 

 (1863-64) ; Baker, I.e., p. 405. 



Loanda.— A slender herb, much and casspitosely branched, prostrate; 

 branchlets ascending-scandent,very slender ; leaves glossy-green, soft 

 but rather fleshy ; leaflets obliquely unequal at the base ; flowers, 

 orange-yellow with a purplish tinge. Common by the lower thickets 

 in the dry sterile sandy-stony parts of Praia de Zamba Grande ; fl. 

 June, f r. July 1858. No. 1493. 



19. C. cbloroleuca Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 592. 



Vitis chloroleuca Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 406. 



Huilla. — A subscandent ornamental undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 

 cymes bracteate ; flowers red ; fruit ovoid-globose, tomentose, edible. 

 "Very rare, in wooded-mountainous rocky places from the great lake of 

 Ivantala in the direction of Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 1453. 



20. C. andongensis Planch. Monogr. Ampelid. p. 592. 



Vitis andongensis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 406. 



Pungo Asdongo. — An undershrub or a shrubby perennial herb, 

 2 to 3 ft. high ; stem zigzag, reddish, channelled-striate, sparingly or 

 scarcely cirrhose. Leaves 5-foliolate ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, the 

 middle one shortly petiolulate, the two lateral ones sessile, unequally 

 dentate, deep-green and nearly glabrous above, ferruginoiis-loinentose 

 beneath ; petiole about 1 in. long ; stipules half -ovate, rather obtuse, 

 red, persistent for a long time. Inflorescence shaggj -tomentose ; 

 flowers pale-whitish-yellow ; calyx flattish but rather cup-shaped, 



