0lde7dandia\ lxix. rubiace^. 443 



straight, rather widened near the top where the anthers are 

 included ; limb 4-lobed ; segments ovate, obtuse ; capsule broadly 

 urceolate, 2-celled ; seeds numerous. 



MossAMEDES. — In hilly gravelly maritime places near the citadel, in 

 company with species of Phaniaceton and Gisekia, abundant ; fl. andfr. 

 end of June 1859. No. 5327. 



8. 0. cuspidata K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 413 



(1896). 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb ; stems several, ascending-erect, obtusely 

 tetragonal, 6 to 12 in. high, the upper part with distant pairs of 

 opposite leaves ; leaves linear, erect, ciliate on the margin with hyaline 

 pilose hairs, the lower leaves crowded and smaller ; stipules sheathing, 

 truncate, with long setae at the apex ; flowers rosy, like those of 

 Erythrcea, stipulaceo-involucrate in long-pedunculate dense little 

 cymes, tetramerous ; corolla (as also the calyx and stem) scattered 

 outside with hyaline pilose hairs, paUid-rosy outside ; the tube and 

 throat naked ; the limb deep-rosy or rarely white inside : anthers 

 almost sessile, erect, included ; style filiform, shorter than the stamens ; 

 stigma oblong, almost claviform-thickened, obsoletely bilobed at the 

 apex, not reaching the anthers ; fruit agreeing with the section 

 Kohautia. In pastures and sandy thickets, very abundant and 

 frequent throughout the plateau of Huilla and a great ornament to 

 its pastures ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 1860. No. 5341. At Lopollo, 

 very abundant ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5342. 



9. 0. spermacocina K. Schum., I.e., p. 418. 



Huilla. — An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, with whitish flowers. At 

 a waterfall; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 5332. Flowers white. Near 

 Ferrao da Sola, at a cascade ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 5333. 

 Perennial, herbaceous or suffruticose, 2 to 3 ft. high : leaves lanceolate, 

 silvery-shining beneath ; flowers white. Near Lopollo ; fr. Jan. 1860. 

 Coll. Carp. 634. 



10. 0. papulosa K. Schum., I.e., p. 416. 



LoANDA. — An erect, substrict, branched herb, 4 to 9 in. high ; 

 leaves narrow ; flowers from whitish to yellowish. In pastures 

 flooded in summer, near Quicuxe, in company with a species of 

 Drimia, rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. No. 3064. 



Ambaca. — An annual erect herb, a foot high ; stem slender ; leaves 

 linear ; flowers (of which only the fragmentary remains were seen) 

 tubular ; tube long, straight, very slender. In plantations of Manihot 

 utilissima near N-gombe and the river Lucala, abundant ; fr. Oct. 

 1856. An annual erect little herb ; in damp places on the left bank 

 of the river Caringa, rare ; fr. June 1855. No. 3065. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual erect herb, a foot high, branched 

 from the base, cylindrical ; branches erect, elongated ; leaves rather 

 fleshy ; stipules sheathing, with several or few teeth ; calyx green ; 

 tube adnate to the ovary ; limb quadrifid, with lanceolate erect lobes, 

 rarely with a fifth or even also a sixth little tooth interposed ; 

 corolla pallid-purpUsh, soon whitish or violet-coloured, salver-shaped, 

 with a slender elongated tube and a slightly dilated straight throat ; 

 limb quadrifid ; lobes lanceolate, rather obtuse and fleshy, spreading 

 in a stellate manner at the time of flowering, naked and whitish 

 inside ; stamens 4, inserted at the base of the throat of the corolla, 

 included ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong, terminated at the 

 apex with a short blackish appendage ; ovary marked with a thin disc, 



