Dioscorea] X, DIOSCOREACEE, 4] 
base and whitish-green or pale sulphur-coloured. Main peduncles of 
the spikes springing from the dilated base of the petioles. Everywhere 
by dense thickets round Sange ; fruit sought in vain. In fl. end of 
Dec. 1855. No. 4049. Varzea do Isidro Coango. In fl. April to May, 
but did not fruit. No. 4050. 
Huriua.—D. pentadactyla Welw. A climber with tuberous root. 
By hedges and margins of woods, but not plentiful from Lopollo to 
Jau. Male flower and unripe fruit Dec. and March 1860. No. 4045. 
A climbing shrub, with 5-digitate leaves and white-yellowish flowers. 
By hedges near Huilla, behind Catumba, May 1860. Cott. Carp. 88. 
XI. LILIACEZ. 
Trips 1. SUILACELZ. 
1. SMILAX L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 763. 
1. S. Kraussiana Meisn. ex Krauss in Flora 1845, p. 312; 
Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 264; A. De Cand. Mon, 
Phan. i. p. 171; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 279. 
Smilax spp. Welw. Apont. p. 543; Synops. p. 56 (Salsa- 
parrilha de Angola). 
GoLuneo ALTo.—Suffruticose high-climbing, leaves leathery, root 
with fascicled fibres as in S. Sarsaparilia. Thickets near Sange, August 
1857. No. 3861. Rhizome moniliform-tuberous, tubers oblong soon 
becoming woody, provided with very long cylindrical thick fibres, 
very like those of S. Sarsaparilla, regularly arranged along the whole 
length ; leaves shining above. Even the root-fibres are aculeate. 
Climbing far and wide in more lofty woods and dense thickets. By 
the cataracts of the Cuango. Picked in fl. in May, in fr. in June. 
No. 3862. In palm woods round Cambondo and Sanches, very rarely 
flowering ; Jan. 1855. No. 3863. 
Ampaca.—A small shrub 2 to 3 ft. high, erect, stem prickly, leaves 
broad, leathery, shining. Flowers white to reddish. Root long fibrous, 
closely resembling the rootlets of S. Sarsaparilla. Plentiful on thicket- 
grown hills between Isanga and N-gombe (stronghold of the chief of 
Ambaca). In fl. Oct. 1856. No. 3860. 
HuiLia.—Wooded places round the great lake Ivantéla, but not 
plentiful. In fl. 27 Feb. 1860. No. 3864. Plentiful in the rocky 
primitive woods of Serra da Xella, not far from the highest peaks. 
In fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3865. 
Trips 1. ASPARAGEZ. 
2, ASPARAGUS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. iii. p. 765. 
1. A. scoparius Lowe in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. iv. p. 11 
(1831); Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 610; Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 289. 
Maperra.—Near A. officinalis but suffruticose or almost shrubby, 
with stem woody below. Rocky places near streams between Funchal 
and Camara dos Lobos, In fi. end of August 1853. No. 3853. 
2. A, equisetoides Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn, Soc. ser. 2. 
i. p. 253 (1878) ; Durand & Schinz, dc., p. 284. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—Widely cspitose, resembling marsh-growing 
Equisetums, in sandy places on the right of the river Cuanza. Without 
