Jussicea] lviii. onagrace^. 381 



No. 4470. A prostrate annual herb ; stem purplish ; leaves bright 

 green ; flowers deep yellow. Abundant in rice fields by the rivulet 

 Miege near Caghuy ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1857. No. 4472. 



3. ISNARDIA L. Gen. PL, edit. 1, p. 337 {init. anni 1737). 

 Ludwigia L. Cor. Gen. p. 3 (Oct. 1737) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 PI. i. p. 788. 



1. I. palustris L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 120 (1753). 

 Isnardia (sp.) Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 187 (1861). 

 HuiLLA. — At the banks of the Lopollo river ; fr. Nov. 1859. 



No. 4480. 



2. I. prostrata 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 250 (1891). 

 Ludioigia prostrata Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 11 (1814) ; Oliv. Fl. 



Trop. Afr. ii. p. 491. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An undershrub, 6 to 7 ft. high, very much 

 branched. At the banks of the river Quiapoze ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. 

 No. 4464. 



MosSAMEDES. — An annual herb, branched from the base ; stems 

 ascending ; flowers small, yellowish, tetrandrous. In sandy damp 

 herbaceous places at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, 

 rather rare ; fl. andfr. in winter, July 1859. No. 4479. 



Our specimens agree fairly with this species, except that in 

 No. 4464 the capsules range from | to IJ in. in length. 



LIX. SAMYDACE^. 



1. HOMALIUM Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 800. 



1. H. stipulaceum Welw. ex Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 498. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— An evergreen tree of 15 to 30 ft. in height, or 

 after the burning of the forests a shrub of 3 to 5 ft., and even at that 

 size flowering ; distinguished by very large foliaceous stipules, 1 to 

 IJ in. long by 1 in. broad, and by the margins of the lamina revolute 

 throughout ; fruit not seen. In the more elevated primitive forests 

 near Sange, at the springs of Capopa, also at the base of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. 1856. No. 2495. 



See Welw. Apont. p. 556 n. 126. 



2. H. africanum Benth. in Jom^n. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 35 (1859); 

 Masters, I.e., p. 497 ; Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 119 (1892). 



Island of St. Thomas. — Dec. 1860. Called " Quebra machado." 

 No. 6756. 



LX. TURNERACE^. 



1. WORMSKIOLDIA Thonn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 807. 



1, W. lobata Urb. in Eichl. & Garcke, Jahrb.Bot. Bed. ii. p. 52 

 (1883); Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 6a, p.61(1893). 



W. heterophylla Welw. Apont. p. 555 sub n. 124 {Tricliceras 

 raphanoides)., non Thonn. 



