SI 8 xciv. ACANTHACE^. [AsT/stasia 



Ruellia secunda Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. p. 84 (1794). R. coro- 

 mandeliana Wall. List n. 2399 partly (1830). A. gangetica 

 T. And. in Thwaites, Enum. p. 235 (1860) ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Bot. 1880, p. 308. 



IcoLO E Bengo.— At Santo Antonio ; fr. Dec. 1853. No. 5170. In 

 palm groves at the river Bengo, sparingly ; fr. Dec. 1853. No. 5201. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — An ascending herb, a foot and a half high, with 

 whitish flowers. In bushy reed- beds ; fl. May 1856. No. 5196. In 

 fr. 1857. No. 5160. In fl. and fr. No. 5131. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers whitish violet in colour ; fruit scarcely an inch 

 long, ^V in- broad. In the more open forests of the Monino ; fl. and 

 fr. Deer 1859. No. 5050. 



Prince's Island.— In fl. Sept. 1853. No. 5206. 



2. A. africana C. B. CI., Z.c, p. 134. 

 Isochoriste africana S. Moore, I.e., p. 309. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A diffuse herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with rosy flowers. 

 In wooded bushy places near Quilange ; fl. Febr. 1857. No. 5073. In 

 fr. No. 5078. In fl. No. 5079. 



3. A. Welwitschii S. Moore, Z.c, p. 308, t. 213 ; C. B. CI., I.e. 

 p. 134. Cf. Welw. Apontam. p. 591, n. 103 (1859). 



Pungo Andongo. — A sparingly branched herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 the aspect of a Mimulus ; flowers whitish rosy. By thickets near 

 Cazella ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 5188. An erect or ascending herb, 2 to 

 4 ft. high ; rootstock woody ; stems numerous ; flowers white or 

 rarely purplish. In thickets about the praesidium, everywhere very 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Febr. 1857. No. 5105. A perennial herb, 3 ft. 

 high ; flowers spreading horizontally and somewhat drooping, in shape 

 almost like those of a Gladiolus^ whitish rosy. In wooded thickets 

 near Pungo Andongo, plentiful ; fr. April 1857. Apparently this 

 species. Coll. Carp. 836. Herbaceous ; flowers white. At Cazella. 

 Apparently the same. Coll. Carp. 837. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers white. In bushy thickets near Lopollo, rather 

 rare ; fl. Nov. 1859. No. 5039. 



The following No. possibly belongs to this genus, but it is 

 represented by a very poor specimen. 



Pungo Andongo. — A decumbent herb, with white flowers. In 

 sandy wooded places near Mopopo and Sansamanda ; fl. Feb. 1857. 

 No. 5159. 



18. PSEUDERANTHEMUM Eadlk. in Sitzber. Bayr. Akad. W. 

 xiii. p. 282 (1883). 



Eranthemum E. Br. Prodr. p. 477 (1810) ; Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 1097 ; non L. (1753). Siphoneranthemiom O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. iii. 2, p. 122 (1898). 



1. P. nigritianum Ptadlk., I.e., p. 286. 



Eranthemum nigritianutn T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 

 p. 51 (1863) ; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 308 ; C. B. CI. 

 in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 171. 



Pungo Andongo. — An erect or decumbent undershrub, slender, 1 

 to 2 ft. high, woody at the base ; leaves thinly coriaceous, somewhat 

 glossy, ranging up to 4^ in. long by \}y in. broad ; petioles ranging up 



