64 XXIII. MALVACE^. [Siclcc 



No. 4953. A low shrub, with very patent branches and white Cistus- 

 like flowers, with fugitive petals ; in poor hot pastures, Sobato de 

 Bumba ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1855. No. 4962. 

 Bumbo.— Serra da Xella ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4949. 



3. S. rhombifolia L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 684; Masters, I.e., p. 181. 



Prince's Island.— Fl. and young fr. Sept. 1853. No. 4996 and 

 (probably) No. 4957. 



Ambriz. — In forests of Acacia^ from Ambriz towards Mubango • 

 fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 4954. 



LoANDA.— A little shrub, 1 to 3 ft. high, mostly branched from the 

 twisted base ; rootstock thick, linear-conical, very long and tough, 

 white, with a few lateral fibres ; corolla orange-yellow, nearly f\ in. 

 diam. ; petals contiguous to a considerable height, obcordate-cuneate ; 

 capsule depressed, umbonate at the apex, marked with 10 gibbosities 

 and afterwards 10-sulcate, covered by the calyx and much exceeded 

 by the sepals : abundant both in dry hilly and in low moist stations, 

 and accordingly very variable in size and other characters ; at Imbou- 

 deiro dos Lobos ; fl. and fr. beginning of May 1858. No. 4951. Also 

 fl. and fr., Nos. 4952Z>, 4958. Also a little shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, with 

 numerous stems fi'om a woody rootstock, and virgately branched ; 

 flowers orange-yellow ; abundant in thickets between the city of 

 Loanda and Camana, especially about Maianga do Povo ; fl. and fr. 

 May 1858. No. 4960. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — Near Foto, in argillaceous soils ; fl. and fr. No. 4955. 



GoLUNGu Alto.— Fl. and fr. Nos. 4924, 4956. 



MossAMEDEs. — In thickets at the banks of the river Bero, abundant, 

 fl. July 1859. No. 4946. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb of 10 in., with the habit almost of a 

 Byttneria.^ with pale-yellow flowers ; in thickets near Humpata, 

 sporadic, fl. April 1860. No. 4947. 



4. S.cordifoliaL. Sp.Pl. edit. 1, p. 684(1753); Masters, /.c, p. 181. 



Ambriz. — In the forest round about Quibanza ; fl. and immature fr. 

 No. 4972. 



Loan DA. — A lovely little shrub or rather a woody undershrub, 

 2 J to 4 ft. high, much branched from the base ; flowers white or 

 whitish, soon turning yelloAvish, ^ to § in. diam. when expanded ; in 

 thinly bushy places between Bemposta and Camana, fl. and immature 

 fl-. May 1859. No. 4970. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Petals broadly obcordate, of a vinous-orange 

 colour, striate within to the base with red-purple lines ; in the low 

 thickets in the drier declivities near Sange, end of Oct. 1855 ; cultivated 

 as an ornamental plant, though scarcely deserving of such treatment. 

 No. 4974 and Coll. Carp. 244. A herb, usually somewhat shrubby, 

 with ashy-green leaves and with flowers white when fresh but quickly 

 turning yellowish when dried ; in bushy localities by roads and such- 

 like places, near Sange, abundant ; fl. beginning of Dec. 1855. No. 4975. 

 An undershrub or occasionally a little shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, with the 

 upper branches patent ; flowers golden-yellow or paler ; abundant by 

 roadsides and about the villages of the natives, at Menha-Lula ; fl. and 

 fr. May 1856. No. 4973. Fl. and fr., No. 4971. 



PuNGO Andongo. — No. 4976. 



HriLLA. — A little shrub, 3 ft. high, with yellow flowers ; in the 

 wild shrubby stations of Monino ; April 1860. No. 4948. 



Care de Verde Islands.— St. lago ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1801. No. 4977. 



