Boerhavia] xcix. NYCTAGiNEiE. 883 



GoLUXGO Alto. — In thickets near Quiquelequele ; fl. and fr. July 

 1856. No. 5380. 



Prince's Island.—" Herba tostao." In fl. Sept. 1853. No. 5391. 

 In Ambriz and Loanda the natives call this plant " Embate " or " Bate- 

 bate " ; a decoction of the tuberous root is used as a remedy in cases of 

 jaundice. It is also called " Ditumbate," plural " Matumbate." 



3. B. plumbaginea Cavan. Icon. ii. p. 7. n. 121. t. 112 (1793). 



Valeriana scandeiis Forsk. Fl. ^Egypt.-Arab. p. 12 (1775) ; non 

 Loefl. (1758). B. clichotoma Vahl, Enum. PI. i. p. 290 (1804). 



Loanda. — A perennial herb ; rootstock woody, polycephalous ; 

 flowers lilac. In dry hilly places near the convent of Santo Jose at 

 Loanda ; fl.-bud and fr. Dec. 1853 and Feb. 1854. No. 6379. Flowers 

 lilac or violet-purple. In hilly bushy places above Penedo and near 

 Boa Vista ; fl. and fr. March 1854. No. 5395. A herb, 3 to 8 ft. long, 

 almost scandent, or decumbent on other shrubby plants ; flowers com- 

 paratively large. Very plentiful in all the littoral districts of Angola, 

 flowering nearly the whole year ; at Alto das Cruzes, Dec. 1853 ; at 

 Praia da Zamba grande, July 1858 ; fl. and fr. No. 5394. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — At Cacarambola ; in fl.-bud and fr. Aug. 1856. 

 A decoction of the root is used as a remedy in cases of jaundice. 

 No. 5396. 



3. BUGINVILL^A Commers. ex Juss. Gen. PI. p. 91 (1789) ; 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 7. (Bougainvillcea). 



1. B. spectabilis Willd. Sp. PI. ii. p. 348 (1799). 



Cape de Verde Islands. — Cultivated in the interior parts of the 

 island of San Thiago ; fl. Jan. 1861. No. 5378. 



C. ILLECEBRAOEJE. 



1. POLLICHIA Ait. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 14. 



1. P. campestris Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 1, p. 5 (1789). 

 Mossamedes. — A suifrutescent herb or a shrublet, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 



rhizome polycephalous ; stems divaricately branched, the young shoots 

 clothed with a snow-white felt; flowers fasciculate, the bundles as well 

 as each flower sheathed with thin hyaline bracteoles ; calyx 5-cleft, red, 

 somewhat fleshy ; petals ; stamen 1, attached to the calyx-tube ; 

 ovary ellipsoidal ; style central, elongated, shortly bifid at the apex ; 

 utricle loose ; seed ellipsoidal, smooth. In sandy dry or moist places 

 at the banks of the river Bero, plentiful but only at a very few spots ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1088. In rocky sparingly bushy places on 

 the right bank of the river Caroca, near Cabo Negro ; fr. Sept. 1859. 

 No. 1088&. A divaricate, branched undershrub, 2 ft. high ; stem 

 nodose ; stipules scarious, the scales which involve the fruits fleshy, 

 dusky. In sandy places at the banks of the river Bero ; fr. July 1859. 

 Coll. Carp. 879. 



2. PARONYCHIA Adans; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 15. 

 1. P. illecebroides Webb in Hook. Ic. PI. viii. t. 756 (1848), 



and in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 106. t. 7 (1849) ; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. 

 Fl. Cap Yerd. Ins. p. 275 (1852). 



Hemiaria illecebroides Chr. Sm. in Tuckey, Congo, p. 250 (1818). 



Cape de Verde Islands.— At the maritime rocks and in sandy 



