Thunhergict] xciv. ACANTHACE.f:. 80& 



segments 10, narrowly lanceolate, /r to ^r, in. long, glabrous; seeds 

 solitary, J in. in diameter, umbilicate, with short adpressed papillce. 

 Between the prsesidium and Caghuy, in company with other Acanthaceae ; 

 fr. Feb. 1857. No. 5218. 



2. TUBIFLORA Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 2, i. pp. 19, 27 (1791). 



Ehjtraria Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. p. 8 (1803); A^ahl, Enum. i, 

 p. 106 (1804) ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1073. 



1. T. caroliniensis Gmelin, I.e. 



Ji'sticia acaulis L. f. Suppl. PL p. 84 (1781). Anonymos caro- 

 liniensis Walter, Fl. Carol, p. 60 (1788). Ehjtraria Vahliana 

 Mich., I.e., i. p. 9, t. 1. E. crenata. Vahl, I.e. ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Bot. 1880, p. 196; Burkill in Flor. Trop. Afr. v. p. 27 (1899). 

 E. lyrata and E. virgata Yahl, I.e. E. caroliniensis and E. indica 

 Pers. Syn. PI. i. p. 23 (1805). E. marginata Vahl ex P. Beaiiv. 

 Fl. Owar. ii. p. 58, t. 93, fig. 2 (1818) T. acaulis 0. Kimtze, 

 Pvev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 500 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Habit of Plantago. Cungulungulo ; fl. Feb. 1855. 

 No. 5209. A low herb ; leaves membranous, bright green ; flowers 

 white ; calyx bibracteolate at the base, 4-cleft nearly to the base, the 

 top segment the broadest, the lateral ones narrow, the bottom one- 

 deeply bifid ; ovary narrowly oblong, a little compressed ; style 

 filiform-subulate, stigmatose at the apex. In moist wooded, half- 

 shady places among the Queta mountains at the banks of the river 

 Coango, rather rare : late fl. beginning of May 1856. No. 5157> 

 Quibolo ; fl. May 1856. No. 5210. A stemless herb, with the aspect 

 of Plantago major L., perennial or biennial ; rhizome horizontal, 

 rather thick ; leaves obovate-spathulate, on the margin almost entire 

 or sometimes runcinate towards the base, dull green, membranous, 

 much attenuate into the petiole ; flowers whitish. In the more 

 elevated forests of Sobato Cabanga-Cacalungo, among the Cungulungulo 

 mountains ; fl. and few fr. middle of June 1856. No. 5156. 



3. NELSONIA E. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1073. 



1. N. campestris R. Br. Prodr. p. 481 (1810); Burkill in Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. v. p. 28 (1899). 



Justieia hrunelloides Lam. Tabl. Encyel. i. jd. 40 (1791). X 

 caneseens Lam., l.c.j p. 41. J. origanoides, J. hirsiUa, & ./. 

 nummularicnfolia Yahl, Enum. i. p. 122 (1804). J. tomentosa and 

 J. lamifolia Ptoxb. Hort. Bang. p. 4 (1814) ; Wall. List, n. 2370 

 (1830). X. rotundifolia R. Br., I.e. N. hirsuta Roem. & Schult. 

 Syst. Veg. i. p. 172 (1817). N. nummular icefolia & X. origanoides 

 Poem. & Schult., I.e., p. 173. X. albicans H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. 

 ii, p. 234 (1817). X. lamiifolia K. Br. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 

 p. 42 (1825). X. caneseens Spr., I.e. X. tomentosa A. Dietr. Sp. 

 PI. i. p. 419 (1831); S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 196. X, 

 hrunellodes 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 493 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A quite prostrate herb, only the spikes of pale 

 blue flowers erect. In the arimo of Senhor Mariano on the right 

 bank of the river Cuango, sparingly in plots formerly cultivated ; fl- 

 and fr. Dec. 1854. No. 5217. Habit of PrutwUa ; spikes very dense, 

 whitish shaggy, soft and limp in the living state ; flowers small. 



