378 LViir. ONAGUACEiE. [Epilobiwm 



contained in Coll. Carp. 1062, with the native name of " Maloa" 

 attached. Apparently with reference to a similar deposit, 

 Christian Smith in Tuckey, Congo, p. 301, speaks of the shore of 

 the river as overgrown with a thick sod covered with a species 

 of Jussicea. An Isnardia and two species of Epilobium were found 

 in the district of Huilla, and another Isnardia in Mossamedes. 



' 1. EPILOBIUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 787. 



1. E. hirsutum, L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 347 (1753); Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. ii. p. 487. 



Huilla. — Stem 2J to 4 ft. high ; stigma 4-lobed, lobes broadly 

 oblong, rather thick, erect- patent. Along the bushy banks of streams 

 near Lopollo, in company with Ti/pha (of. Herb. No. 243), Polycjonum 

 (of. Herb. Xo. 531)3), Rutnex (cf. Herb. No. 5357), JRubus huillensis 

 (Welw. Herb. No. 1281), and Jaumea (Herb. No. 3965) ; fl. andfr. April 

 and May 185*J. No. 4457. 



2. E. benguellense, Welw. ms. in Herb. 



Glabrescent, shining, and apparently perennial ; stems annual, 

 2 to 3 ft. high, rooting at the very base, ascending below, erect 

 above, glabi-ous, sparingly branched, cylindrical, sub-fistulose, 

 leafy ; leaves linear-lanceolate, naxTOwed towards both ends, 

 obtusely pointed at the apex, glabrous, spreading, glaucous-green, 

 minutely glandular-denticulate chiefly towards the apex on the 

 margin (glands red or purplish), alternate or the lower ones 

 opposite, 1 to 3g in. long by g to g in. broad, attenuate at the 

 base into a subglabrous broad obsoletely decurrent petiole of ~ to 

 \ in. ; nerves subpellucid ; inflorescence centripetal ; flowers 

 axillary, regular, at first whitish, at length rose-coloured ; peduncle 

 abovit I in. long, clothed with short cui-ly hairs ; calyx-lobes lan- 

 ceolate, i in. long, puberulous outside, hooded-apiculate ; petals 

 oval, obtuse, cleft at the apex, | in. long, rose-coloured or palely 

 so, veined ; stamens all shorter than the petals ; anthers oblong ; 

 stigma undivided; capsule slender, 1| to 14 in. long; together 

 with the peduncle Ig to 2| in. long; seeds unequally ovoid-oblong, 

 about -y in. long, obtuse at the apex below the sordid comose 

 crown, bluntly and obliquely pointed at the base, glabrous not 

 shining nor tuberculate. 



Huilla. — In swampy thickets along the banks of the river Monino, 

 not abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 4458. In marshy places 

 near the banks of the river Caculuvar along the road leading to 

 Quilengues : fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 4459. 



Nearly allied to E. stereophyllum Fresen., of Abyssinia, but differs by 

 its leaves being more distinctly petiolate and attenuate at the base, etc. 



2. JUSSI^A L. ; Benth and Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 788. 



1. J. erecta L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 388 (1753) part, non L. PL 

 Surin. n. 52 (1775); M. MicheH, Onagr. Bresil, p. 15 (1874). 



J. altissinui Perrottet ex DC. Prodr. iii. p. 55 (1828). J. 

 linifolia Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 489 ; non Vahl. 



Loanda. — An erect herb ; stem 3 to 7 ft. high, of a blood-red or 



