800 xciii. PEDALiACEyE. [Sesomiv.m 



sparingly ; fl. and fr. June 18G0. No. 1663. At the latter station 

 but sparingly, fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1663^^. 



HuiLLA. — An annual erect herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; roots dyeing red ; 

 leaves trifoliolate or very rarely quinquefoliolate, nearly glabrous, 

 bright herbaceous-green on both faces : flowers tolerably large, of a 

 glaucous blood-red hue ; capsules nearly glabrous, longer than the 

 petioles. In neglected fields between Nene and Humpata, and rather 

 rare near LopoUo ; fl. Oct. 1859, fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 ; also in like 

 places and in rather small thickets by the Monino ; fl, April 1860. 

 No. 1662. 



9. S. pentaphylium E. Mey. in Flora, 1843, ii. Beigabe, pp. 50, 

 54, 56, 222; & ex DC. Prodr. ix. p. 251 (1845). 



Gongyla pentai^hjlla Bernh. ex DC, I.e. Sesamopteris pe7ita- 

 2)hyUa DC, I.e. Volkameria pentaphylla 0. Kuntze, Z.c, j). 482. 



Ben(;uella. — An erect, cseruleo-glaucescent, sparingly branched, 

 apparently annual herb, 5 to G ft. high, very elegant ; corolla hand- 

 some, campanulate-subringent, violet-coloured outside, red-purple 

 inside. In bushy sandy places near Benguella ; fl. and fr. end of June 

 1859. Coll. Carp. 25. A very beautiful plant ; leaves 5-foliolate, 

 palmate, glaucous-silky ; leaflets petiolulate ; flowers violet-purple. 

 In maritime gravelly places between Benguella and the river Cavado : 

 fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 1661 partly. 



Mos.^^AMEDES. — An erect herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; stem purple as well 

 as the very delicately lepidote-glaucous leaves. In the dry bushy bed 

 of the river Bero, very rare ; fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 1661 partly. 



The plant stains paper a reddish colour. 



5. CERATOTHECA Endl. ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii.p. 1059. 



1. C. integribracteata Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. p. 156 (1894). 



Zenza do Golungo. — An annual herb ; leaves pallid but not 

 whitish-glaucous beneath ; flowers whitish rosy. At Muchao, Mongolo 

 mountains, at the outskirts of forests of Leguminosae ; fr. Sept. 1854. 



No. 1650. 



Golungo Alto. — In hilly places among low herbs near Sange, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. and Feb. 1855. No. 1651. An annual 

 herb, 2 to 2h ft. high, resembling a species of DigitaU.^ ; flowers rosy, 

 tolerably large. In sunny places near Sange, not common ; fr. Jan. 

 1855. Coll. Carp. 822. Near Rodrigo's house ; fr. July 1857. 

 Coll. Carp. 823. 



Cazencjo. — In secondary bushy woods near Cacula ; fl. and fr. 

 June 1855. No. 1649. 



Amuaca. — An annual, erect, viscid, branched herb ; flowers like a 

 foxglove in shape, from whitish to rosy, somewhat drooping. In a 

 pasture among low bushes, between N-gombe and the river Lucala ; 

 one specimen ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 1652. 



M(jssAMEL)ES.— A herb, H to 2 ft high, much branched from the 

 base, more or less viscid^ throughout, certainly annual and not 

 perennial ; flowers yellowish with a purpHsh tinge, black-punctate all 

 over. In sandy places near Cavalheiros at the banks of the river 

 Bero, usually flooded, not common ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1654. 



HuiLLA.— Flowers rosy. In neglected fields near Lopollo ; fl. and 

 fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 1653. 



This is probably the plant with the native name of " Quifocdso " in 

 Golungo Alto, which when boiled Welwitsch's informant, Senhor 

 Mariano, stated to have the virtue of killing Hce. 



