Globularia] xcv. selagine^. 827 



Wettst. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 b., p. 272, fig. 103 C 

 (1895). L. amygdalifoUus Wettst. in Engl., I.e., p. 273. 



Island of MADEiitA. — A lovely shrub, 1^ to 2|^ ft. high ; branches 

 ascending ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, rather glossy. In stony places not 

 far from the ocean, by the road which leads from Funchal to Camara 

 dos Lobos, abundant ; fl. end of August 1853. Xo. 784. 



XOVI VERBENACE^.. 

 1. LANTANA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1142. 



1. L. Camara L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 627 (1753). 



L. antidotalis Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Yidensk. Selsk. iv. 

 p. 50 (1829). 



LoAXDA. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high : root woody : stems several, 

 erect or oblique, distinctly hexagonal or obtusely tetragonal : branches 

 and branchlets patent ; leaves almost always (according to Welwitsch) 

 ternate, sometimes opposite ; flowers yellow, almost tending to orange 

 in colour ; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than the corolla-tube : 

 drupels deep blue. In thickets not far from the ocean, extending at 

 intervals from Ambriz to the mouth of the river Cuanza ; at Penedo ;. 

 fl. Feb. 1858. Used as an officinal plant by the negroes ; scent very 

 agreeable. Xo. 5722. In fl. and fr. X'os. 5650, 5715, 5658. 



PuxGO Andongo. — In fr. Dec. 1856. Xo. 5692. A much branched 

 shrub, 5 ft. high, with numerous stems and orange-coloured flowers. 

 In thickets at the outskirts of Mata de Pungo ; fl. Jan. 1857. Xo. 

 5723. A simple erect shrublet, 6^ in. high, apparently perennial : 

 leaves membranous ; flowers orange-yellow. In a rocky part of the 

 prsesidium, at Barrancos da Pedra Pungo : only one specimen, fl. May 

 1857. Xo. 5621. In fl. and young fr. Xo. 5676. 



MosSAMEDES. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, subscandent or rather with 

 virgate sarmentose branches : flowers saffron- or orange-yellow: drupels 

 black-bluish. At the banks of the river Bero, plentiful : fl. and fr. 

 June 1859. Xo. 5765. 



Cape de Vekde Islands. — Prickly, shrubby ; fr. baccate. In St. 

 Jago : fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. Belongs to this or an allied species. Xo. 

 5626. 



2. L. salvifolia Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. p. 18, t. 285 (1798). 

 Loan DA. — A much branched undershrub, scarcely a shrub, woody at 



the base ; branches divaricate ; corolla white, yellow at the bottom. 

 At the lowest parts of the mountains between Penedo and Forte 

 Concei^ao ; fl. and fr. 22 April 1858. Xo. 5720. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Koadway near Mussengue ; fl. April 1855. A 

 broad-leaved form of the species. Xo. 5742. An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, at first erect or even strict, afterwards almost a shrub with 

 twisted arching branches ; flowers milk-white. At the outskirts of 

 forests in Sobato de Quilombo and at the river Quango, etc. : fl. and fr. 

 April 1856. Xos. 5666, 5643, 5727, and Coll. Carp. 841. 



Cazen(;o. — A suffruticose herb, 3 to 4 ft. high. By thickets near 

 Cacula ; fl. June 1855. A broad-leaved form. Xo. 5743. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high; root woody: stems 

 numerous, prostrate or ascending : flowers very prettily violet-rosy, 

 scentless : fruit baccate, edible, resembling a mulberry but the drupels 

 larger violet-rosy shining like pearls and separated from each other 

 by broad projecting bracts, with a very pleasant acid taste suggesting 



