Adicea\ cxvi. urticace.^. 991 



on the upper part of the stem and on the lower face of the upper 

 leaves ; stems simple or but little branched ; leaves scarcely 

 _whorled in fours at the top of the plant, opposite, ovate, obtusely 

 narrowed at the sub-apiculate apex, very obtusely narrowed at 

 the trinerved base, membranous, the upper pairs dentate and 

 ranging up to an inch long by | in. broad, the lower pairs entire 

 and ranging up to | in. long by f in. broad ; lateral veins few, 

 weak ; cystoliths linear ; petioles ranging to | in. long, slender ; 

 lower internodes long, the upper ones short ; inflorescence short, 

 axillary ; flowers clustered. 



PuxGO Andongo. — In moist shady rocky parts of Barrancos da 

 Pedra Songue in the prsesidium ; fi. Feb. and May 1857. No. 6258. 



The two following Nos. perhaps belong here : — 

 PuNGO Andongo.— On the shady rocks of Pedras de Guinga ; fl. 

 Jan. 1857. Branched, 3 to 5 in. high. No. 6259. A branched, 

 apparently annual herb, about a foot high ; in fl. No. 6272. 



"N-sasi " or "N-sagi," plural " Jinsasi," and " Cachinde quiansagi '' 

 or " Caxinde iansasi " are native names of a species of this genus. 



2. A. Mooreana Hiern, sp. n. 



A weak, slender, erect or ascending annual herb, 4 to 12 in. 

 high ; stem simple, pallid, glabrate and naked below, above 

 leafy and furnished with sparse spreading narrowly subulate 

 whitish setae; leaves opposite, deltoid-ovate, acuminate at the 

 apex, very obtuse or sub-truncate and often emarginate at 

 the trinerved base, membranous, herbaceous -green above, sub- 

 glaucous-green beneath, not conspicuously hairy but with the 

 hairs thinly scattered or chiefly on the ribs and veins, coarsely 

 dentate except the base, li to 2 in. long by 1 to If in. broad, 

 the radical ones about 3 in. long and broad ; lateral veins two 

 or three on each side of the midrib in addition to the basal 

 nerves, slender ; teeth sub-deltoid, |- to f in. long, apiculate ; 

 -cystoliths on the blade punctiform ; petiole rather slender, -^ to 

 1 in. long, glabrous, marked with oblong or sublinear cystoliths, 

 that of the radical leaves about 3 in. long and sparingly setose ; 

 stipules lanceolate or oval-oblong, acute or caudate-acuminate, 

 concave, somewhat hairy on the back, glabrous inside, ciliolate, 

 J in. long ; flowers dioecious, the female ones very small, with 

 an unequally trifid green perianth, without staminodes, few 

 or several together, sessile, in small pedunculate clusters ; 

 common peduncle J to f in. long, solitary in the axils of the 

 middle or lower leaves of the stem, glabrous, marked with 

 sublinear cystoliths ; capsule compressed, obliquely oval or 

 ovate-rotund, pallid, -j^^ in. long, scrobiculate, marked at or 

 near the apex with the short obliquely placed style and at 

 the base with the free small persistent oblique perianth. 



PuNGO Andongo.— In fr. No. 6276- In Mata de Pungo ; without 

 fl. or fr. Jan. 1857. No. 6256. 



This species is named in honour of my friend Mr. Spencer Le 

 Marchant Moore, F.L.S., who in the Journal of Botany for 1880 

 elaborated Welwitsch's Acanthacese. 



