558 LXXI. COMPOSITA. [Pluchea 
by women, in the form of a decoction, for procuring abortion. The 
branchlets were given to Welwitsch by Freiro. No. 3924. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—A shrub as tall as a man or an undershrub ; 
flowers lilac. In damp places near Salinas de Dungo in Sobato Canhaco, 
amid tall grasses ; fl. and fr, March 1857. ‘“ Quitoco.” No. 3925. 
MossaAMEDES.—An aromatic shrub or usually only an undershrub ; 
flowers purple. In thickets along the banks of the river Bengo, rather 
rare ; fl. and fr. July and August 1859. No. 3922. A shrub, 5 ft. 
high, with purplish flowers. In moist thickets at the river Maiombo ; 
fl. and fr. June 1860. A kind of Quitoco. No. 3923. 
The name Quitoco is used in Brazil for another species of the genus, 
namely, P. Quitoe DC.; in Angola it is used also for Placus lacerus 
O. Kuntze. See Ficalho, PJ. Uteis, p. 208 (1884). 
24. EPALTES Cass. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 293. 
1. E. brasiliensis DC. Prodr. v. p. 461 (1836); O. & H. in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. p. 331. 
Ethulia brasiliensis Link, Enum. Herb. Berol. ii. p. 310 (1822). 
Erigerodes brasiliense O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 335 (1891). 
PRINCE'S IsLAND.—Mountainous region ; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 3520. 
2. E. garipina Steetz in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. (ii.), p. 451 
(1863); O. & H., Le, p. 332 (gariepina); Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 
p- 209 (1884). 
Ethulia? gariepina DC., Le, p. 13. Erigerodes gariepinum 
O. Kuntze, /.c. 
MossAMEDESs.—An undershrub, becoming in old age very woody and 
almost a little shrub, 1 to 24 ft. high ; stem with numerous straight 
branches decurrent-winged, both as well as. the foliage scattered with 
small branny scales ; flowers of a bright violet colour ; aroma of the 
whole plant very agreeable as in some species of Placus. In sandy 
and rocky places flooded in summer, in company with Ebenacez (Huclea 
pseudebenus E. Mey.; Herb. No. 2544), behind the town along the 
banks of the river Bero, in Prata de Carpenteiro, not uncommon ; fl. 
July 1859. ‘“ Carqueja Bernardini.” No. 3521. A perennial herb ; 
stems numerous, nearly erect, 2 ft. high, corymbosely branched ; 
flowers rosy-violet. At Boca do Rio Bero; fl. and fr. June 1860. 
Cott. Carp. 97. 
25. SPHZERANTHUS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 294. 
1. S. hirtus Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. p. 2395 (1800); O. & H. in Oliv. 
FI. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 334; non Gaertn. 
S. senegalensis DC. Prodr. v. p. 370 (1836). 
Barra DO Benco and Loanpa.—An annual prostrate herb, with 
ascending branchlets and rosy flowers; in clayey and sandy places 
flooded in summer near Imbondeiro dos Lobos, not uncommon ; fl. and 
fr. June and July 1853. An annual fragrant herb, sometimes scarcely 
2 in. high, in other cases nearly 2 ft., growing in dense masses ; leaves 
scarcely properly termed lanceolate but rather ovate-spathulate, 
agreeing in other respects with the description of S. senegalensis DC. ; 
capitula violet-rosy, elegant ; in wooded places (with Adansonia 
digitata B. Juss.) flooded in the rainy season between Teba and 
Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and May 1854. In muddy places 
