814 xciv. ACANTHACEiE. [Acauthus^ 



PuNGO Andomuo. — An evergreen branched undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. 

 high, woody at the base ; flowers whitish, marked with purple lines. 

 In the rocky parts of Pedra Cabondo, forming thickets, seen nowhere 

 else ; fl. May 1857. Nos. 5076, 5167. 



14. PSEUDOBLEPHARIS Baill. in Bull. Mens. See. Linn. 

 Paris, ii. p. 837 (1890). 



1. P, nitida Lindau in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3h, p. 31^ 

 (1895). 



Acantkus nltidus S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 232. 

 Sclerochiton nitidus C. B. CI. in PI. Trop. Afr. v. p. 110. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high ; leaves ranging 

 up nearly a foot long by 3 in. broad ; calyx dialysepalous, imbricate - 

 corolla white- violet in colour, unilabiate, quite entire and barbulate 

 on the margin behind ; lip anterior and 5-dentate ; stamens 4 ; anthers 

 1 -celled, bearded. In the wooded parts of Barranco de Songue ; fl. 

 May 1857. Nos. 5100, 5087 



15. BARLERIA Plum.,L. ; Benth. k, Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1091. 



1. B. Prionitis L. Sp. PI, edit. 1, p. 636 (1753); S. Moore in 

 Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 265 ; C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 144. 



Ambriz. — In fl.-bud. No. 5141. 



LoANDA. — A shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, much branched from the base •,; 

 stem and older branches whitish ; shoots and thinly coriaceous leaves 

 glaucous-green ; flowers of a fine orange colour ; calyx 4-partite, 

 bibracteate at the base, the front and back segments longer than the 

 lateral ones and a little shorter than the corolla-tube ; corolla bilabiate, 

 6-cleft, the tube but little curved upwards, the four lobes which form 

 the lower Hp deflected, the fifth lobe which forms the upper lip rather 

 erect and a little shorter ; stamens 4, two of them abortive and included 

 in the lower lip of the corolla, the other two fertile and exserted beyond 

 the upper lip ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, subsagittate at the base ; style 

 exserted ; stigma elongate-cylindrical. In hilly maritime places about 

 Loanda, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and Oct. 1857. No. 5138. At 

 Maianga ; fl. Feb. 1858. No. 5190. Fl. U in. long. No. 5067. A 

 glaucous-pruinose shrub, 2 ft. high ; flowers very abundant, of a fine 

 orange colour. In Morro das Lagostas ; f r. Aug. 1854. Coll. Carp. 119. 



This is the Acanthacea mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. Cons. 

 Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 1856), p. 250, n. 119. 



2. B. grandiealyx Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 25 (1894) -^ 

 C. B. CI., /.c, p. 149. 



Var. vix-dentata C. B. CL, I.e. B. Kirkii S. Moore, l.c.^ p. 265 ; 

 non T. And. 



HuiLLA.— Flowers pale blue. In thickets of forests composed of 

 Parinarl Mahola (Welw. herb. no. 1282), between Lopollo and 

 Catumba ; fl. March 1860. No. 5048. 



3. B. Marlothii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. p. 262 (9 Oct. 1888); 

 C. B. CI., Z.c, p. 151. ' 



B. sp. nov.? aff*. B, acanthoidi Vahl, S. Moore, I.e., p. 270. 



MossAMEDES. — A very gloomy, suffrutescent, perennial herb, radi- 

 ately branched from the base ; stems slender, somewhat woody ; leaves 

 rigid, somewhat fleshy. In rocky places at the base of Serra de Montes 

 negros, rather rare ; fr. 10 Aug. 1859. No. 5024. A very rigid, elastic 



