Utricularici] xc. lentibulariace.e. 789 



Var. bryoides Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An annual, erect berblet, 1 to 2 in. high ; leaves radical, 

 subrosLilate, obovate- or lanceolate-spathulate, somewhat fleshy, 

 greatly attenuate at the base into the petiole ; scape erect, 1- or 

 few-flowered ; flowers purple ; corolla pale violet; the palate violet- 

 purple ;'the disk prominent yellow and marked with purple lines 

 radiating to the circumference. The patches of the plant in fruit 

 resemble those of a fruiting moss. 



PunCtO Andongo, — In spongy places among the more elevated rocks 

 of Pedras de Guinga, in company with flysanthei> andongensh Hiern, 

 var. ? ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 254. In masses rather loosely in- 

 serted on rich saturated turf in spongy marshy places, near Catete 

 and Luxillo ; fl. and fr. middle of Jan. 1857. No. 255. 



Var. nematoscapa. 



A filiform herblet with a slender capillary scape and white 

 flowers. 



PuxGO Andongo. — In sandy places among sparse herbage, by the 

 lake of Quibinda ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 256. 



This is quoted by Oliver, I.e., p. 155, in mistake as No. 257. It grew 

 in company with Poly gala Welwitschn Chodat ; Welw. Herb. no. 1013. 



2. GENLISEA A. St. Hil. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 988. 

 1. G. africana Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 145 (1865). 

 HuiLLA. — Habit eminently Primulaceous ; leaves somewhat fleshy, 

 all densely rosulate ; flowers pale purple, turning blue when dried. In 

 marshy meadows and swampy plains by the banks of the Lopollo 

 river, at an elevation of 5000 to 5200 ft., in company with species of 

 Lobelia (cf. L. Welwitschn Engl. & Diels, Welw. Herb. no. 1142, and 

 L. angolensis Engl. & Diels, Welw. Herb. no. 1146), Burmannia hicolor 

 Mart., var. africana Ridl. (cf. Welw. Herb. no. 6473), and Erio- 

 caulonaceae (cf. PcRpalanthua Wahlbergii Koern., Welw. Herb. nos. 

 2454-55) ; fl. and fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 260. Weaker forms, 

 obtained at the same time and place. No. 260^^. 



The following No., represented in the British Museum set by 

 a poor specimen, should be compared with this species, but the 

 reference is very doubtful : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — A herb scarcely an inch high, growing in a 

 <;aespitose manner, apparently perennial ; leaves erect-patent, somewhat 

 fleshy, almost rosulate ; peduncles longer than the leaves ; fruit fallen. 

 In rocky sandy-schistose places on the right bank of the river Cuanza : 

 without fl. end of Jan. 1857. No. 6743. 



XCI. GESNERACE^. 

 1. STREPTOCARPUS Lindl. ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1023. 



1. S. monophyllus Welw. in Archiv. Sc. Phys. & Nat. (reneve, 

 xi. p. 202 (1861), (monojjhijUa). 



S. henguelensis Welw. ex C. B. CI. in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 1, 

 p. 150 (1883). 



HuiLLA. — A herb, apparently perennial ; radical leaf solitary, very 

 large, very broadly cordate-ovate or cordate-oblong, obtuse at the apex, 



