Oldenlandia] lxix. rubiace.e. 447 



HuiLLA. — In elevated dried-up swamps, in Morro de Monino ; fr. 

 April 1860. No. 3051. 



Perhaps a distinct species, allied also to 0. ccespitosa Hiern. 



20. 0. juncoides K. Schum., I.e., p. 414. 



PuNGO Andongo, — An annual herb with the habit of Armeria, 

 much-branched and ascending from the base, rather rough ; stems 

 hispidulous, tetragonal ; leaves erect-spreading or arching-reflexed^ 

 herbaceous-green ; flowers white, tetramerous, very deciduous ; corolla 

 white, rotate, its tube short ; limb 4-cleft, clothed with a few white 

 erect pilose hairs. In sandy, rocky, sparingly grassy places, in Mata de 

 Pungo borealis, and at the banks of the river Cuanza near Candumba ; 

 fl. and young fr. end of March and beginning of April 1857. No. 3063. 



21. 0. stellarioides Hiern, sp. n. 



A slender, strict, erect, annual herb, 6 to 9 in. high, with the 

 habit almost of a Stellaria, dichotomously branched from the base ; 

 branches erect- spreading, slightly rough, marked with narrow 

 decurrent lines, leafy ; leaves narrow, almost acicular in the dried 

 , state, hispidulous, sessile, decun-ent, erect-spreading, deep-green, 

 I to 5 in. long, closely revolute along the margin towards the mid- 

 rib ; stipules shortly sheathing or almost obsolete ; flowers small, 

 white, arranged in dichotomous bracteate or leafy, slender, elonga- 

 ting, terminal, erect, centripetal cymes; pedicels slenedr, ultimately 

 about as long as the fruit, solitary at the divisions of the cyme ; 

 calyx-limb 4-partite ; segments equal, lanceolate, acute, hispidu- 

 lovis, persistent, ^V "^- long, often with a squarrose tip ; corolla 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx, quadrifid ; stamens 4 ; fruit broadly 

 campanulate, about as long as the calyx-limb, somewhat com- 

 pressed ; seeds several, minutely punctate. 



Pungo Andongo. — In rocky, sparingly grassy places near Muta 

 Lucala, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. end of March 1857. No. 3052. 



In habit it agrees with 0. stcelioides K. Schum., but the inflorescence 

 is different. 



22. 0. rosulata K. Schum., I.e., p. 416. 



HuiLLA. — A very slender little herb, apparently annual, with the 

 aspect almost of Millegrana ; stem filiform, dichotomous or trichoto- 

 mous, nearly erect or oblique ; leaves of two forms ; stipules scarcely 

 any, represented by a glandular swelling ; corolla tubular-campanulate, 

 with a quadrifid limb and shaggy throat, of a pallid-violet colour out- 

 side, whitish inside, at length turning sky-blue in the course of drying. 

 In marshy situations with dense herbage, in varzeas (moist meadows) 

 along the river Monino ; fl. and fr. 2 Jan. 1860. No. 5320. A very 

 graceful annual herb ; stem dichotomous, ascending or nearly erect, 

 tetragonal ; stem-leaves distant, opposite, lanceolate, long-attenuate at 

 the base ; stipules obsolete or rather substituted by an interpetiolar 

 membrane, glandular-pilose on the margin ; peduncles axillary and 

 terminal, elongated, capillary, trichotomous or simple ; flowers small, 

 tetramerous, white-purplish. In grassy situations on the plateau of 

 Humpata near Empalanca, sparingly ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 5319. 



The following No. should be compared with this species : — 

 HuiLLA. — A weak erect annual herb, scarcely 2 in. high, growing in 

 dense masses : flowers from whitish to sky-blue. In exposed sparingly 

 grassy places in Morro de Lopollo, flooded in the rainy season ; fl. and 



