Petalidimn'] xciv. acanthace^. 811 



deep green, somewhat viscid ; flowers scarlet. In rough mountainous 

 places on a mica-schist formation, at the river Maiombo, near Poman- 

 gala ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5017. In shrubby places in the same neigh- 

 bourhood ; fl. June 1860. Xo. 5018. 



10. MICRANTHUS Wendl. Bet. Beob. p. 38 (1798) ; non Pars. 

 (1805) (sect. Gladioli). 



Phaylopsis Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 342 (1801) ; Benth. & Hook. f. 

 •Gen. PI. ii. p. 1081. Fhaulopsis Sprang. Anl. ii. 1, p. 422 (1817). 



1. M. angolanus O. Kimtze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 493 (1891). 

 Phaylopsis angolana S. Moore in Joiirn. Bot. 1800, p. 229 ; 



C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 84. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb : stem rooting at the lower nodes, flexuous ; 

 flowers white. In bushy places among the mountains of the eastern 

 Queta at Catomba ; fl. beginning of July 1856. No. 5175- 



The following No. must be compared with M. aiigolanus : — 

 Zenza do Golungo. — A herb, annual, straight, viscid. In dry hilly 



bushy places near Calumguembo ; fr. without leaves Sept. 1854, 



No. 5146. 



2. M. obliquus O. Kuntze, I.e. 



Phaylopsis ohliqua T. And. ex S. Moore, I.e. ; 0. B. CI., I.e., 

 p. 86. Phaulopsis oUiquus Lindau in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam., 

 Nachtrag, p. 305 (1897). 



Golungo Alto. — An annual herb ; stem ascending ; branches 

 twisted ; flowers white. In secondary thickets at the outskirts of 

 the forest near the river Delamboa ; fr. and few fl. June and July 

 1856. No. 5115. 



11. WHITFIELDIA Hook. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1085. 



1. W. longifoHa T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 27 (1863), 

 partly \ S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1800, p. 229 (longijlora), partly ; 

 C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 66. 



Cazengo. — In the primitive forests of Muxaulo ; fl. June 1855. 

 No. 6152. 



PuNGO Andongo.— Branches patent. Fl. No. 5086. No notes. 

 Fl. No. 5193. Branched, apparently several feet high ; flowering 

 -spikes erect or scarcely so ; fl.-bud. No. 5077. 



2. W. subviridis C. B. CI., I.e., p. 66. 

 \V. longijiora S. Moore, I.e., partly. 



Golungo Alto. — A shrub as tall as a man ; flowers and calyx 

 brilliantly white, very handsome. In elevated shady places at the 

 cataracts of the Capopa stream, in Sobato de Bumba, not common ; fl. 

 end of August 1855. No. 5151. No notes. Fl.-bud. Probably this 

 species. No. 5153. 



12. BLEPHARIS Juss. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1089. 



1. B. boerhaviaefolia Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 180 (1807) ; 8. Moore 

 in Journ. Bot. (1880) p. 230, C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 90 

 ( hoerhaa v icefolia). 



Luanda.— No notes. Fl. and fr. Nos. 5129, 5199. 



