830 xcvi. VERBENACE.f:. [Lipjna 



petiole 1^ to ^ in. long; flowers small, capitate; heads sub- 

 hemispherical in flower, ^ in. in diameter, densely bracteate, 

 ovoid-oblong in fruit ; bracts ovate-oblong, imbricate, shortly 

 pubescent on the back, minutely glandular, longitudinally lined, 

 about i in. long ; calyx scarcely or about -j^ in. long, hairy ; 

 corolla ^ to i in. long, brilliantly white or whitish ; limb small, 

 y^g in. in diameter ; style Jg in. long ; fruit dry, 



Ambaca. — In the more elevated bushy mountainous places about 

 Puri-Cacarambola ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 5733. 



PuNGt.) Andong<>. — In bushy rocky places to the south of the pras- 

 sidium, plentiful ; fl. and fr. middle of April 1857. Bunda name 

 " Mangue." Nos. b^^O partly, bQQ7 partly. 



3. L. asperifolia Marthe, Cat. PI. Jard. Med. Paris, p. 67 (1801). 



Verbena gloUflora L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. p. 23, t. 12 (1784). 

 Lantana lavandulacea Jacq. PI. Kar. Schoenbr. iii. p. 59, t. 361 

 (1798). 



Bumbo. — A strongly aromatic undershrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with 

 white flowers. In thickets near Bumbo, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. 

 Oct. 1839. No. 5749. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers white. In hilly thickets on the right bank of the 

 LopoUo river ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Feb. 1860. No. 5750. 



I have not seen the type of this species ; our specimens bear some 

 resemblance to L. adoensis Hochst., but the heads of flowers are 

 smaller. 



3. VALERIANOIDES Boerh. ex Medic. Phil. Bot. i. p. 177 (1789). 



Ahena Neck. Elem. Bot. i. p. 296 (1790). Stachytarpheta Y-aM, 

 Enum. i. p. 205 (1804); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1145. 



1. V. mutabilis O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 510 (1891), 

 ( Valerianodes). 



Stachytarpheia mutabilis Vahl, I.e., p. 209. Stacliytarpha 

 elegaTis Welw. Apontam. p. 588. n. 56 (1859). 



LoANDA.— At Bemposta ; fl. Dec. 1858. Nos. 5737, 5649, 5716. 



PuNc;o Andongo. — An undershrub, 3 ft. high, much branched from 

 the base ; branches divaricate-ascending ; flowers of a deep violet 

 colour. In secondary thickets near Quitage, between Pungo Andongo 

 and Cassange, rather rare ; fl. beginning of March 1857. No. 5631. 

 An undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, fastigiately branched at the apex ; 

 flowers violet or white or variegated with purple. In thickets near 

 Quitage ; fl. March 1857. Coll. Carp. 840. 



HuiLLA.— At Catumba ; fl. May 1860. No. 5764. 



Welwitsch in Apontam., I.e., states that this is a very rare plant and 

 was found by him only in one spot ; but in a ms. note he reported 

 it as plentiful in another locality. It is perhaps the Stachytarpheta 

 mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 

 1856), p. 250, n. 130, as an ornamental undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, 

 with large white handsome flowers, and as growing in damp fields in 

 the Loanda country, where it is rather rare and flowers from 

 November to February. 



2. V. jamaicensisO. Kuntze, Z.c, p. 509 {Valerianodes jamaicense). 



Verbena jamaicensis L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 19 (1753). Fer6. 



i7idica L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 85 (1759); Jacq. Obs. Bot. iv. 



