632 LXXIII, CAMPANULACES, [Cervicina 
In Apontam. p. 548 under n. 86, Welwitsch reports a species of 
Wahlenbergia from the highlands of Angola proper ; this is apparently 
the plant collected in Ambaca in the middle of Oct. 1856 in a moist 
pasture on the left bank of the river Lucala near Ponte de Lucala, 
No. 1188 ; it is a unique specimen, represented in the British Museum 
only by a drawing. It is impossible to identify the species ; Welwitsch 
subsequently placed it in Lobelia. 
LXXIV. ERICACEA. 
1. AGAURIA Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 586. 
1. A. salicifolia Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 483. 
Var. pyrifolia Oliv., l.c. 
Andromeda pyrifolia Pers. Syn. Pl. i. p. 481 (1805). Leucothoe 
salicifolia, var. pyrifolia DC. Prodr. vii. p. 603 (1829). 
HviLuia.—A small tree of 8 to 10 ft., with spare head and rambling 
branches. In damp forests behind the Monino river, very rare ; fr., 
after the fall of the corolla and seeds, Feb. 1860. No. 4807. 
The absence of flowers renders the determination somewhat doubtful ; 
the infructescence is apparently terminal. 
2. FICALHOA Hiern in Journ. Bot. xxxvi. p. 329, t. 390 
(1 Sept. 1898). 
Calyx free, hemispherical, persistent, 5-partite; the segments 
broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, somewhat imbricate in 
zestivation, quincuncial, nearly unchanged in fruit; corolla short, 
not much exceeding the calyx, sub-urceolate, tardily deciduous, 
deeply 5-lobed; the lobes broadly oval, rounded at the apex, 
alternating with the calyx-segments, erect below, somewhat 
spreading at the apex, imbricate, quincuncial; stamens 15, uni- 
seriate, free, included, glabrous, inserted on the interior of the 
corolla near the top of its short tube, arranged in 5 groups of 3 
stamens each, the groups alternating with the corolla-lobes and 
having the filaments contiguous at the base; filaments rather 
fleshy, erect, about half as long as the corolla-lobes, tapering from 
a broader base; anthers short, emarginate at both ends, 2-celled, 
basifixed, at length dehiscing by oblique apical pores ; disk incon- 
spicuous, annular or nearly obsolete; ovary 5-celled, sub-hemi- 
spherical, obtusely pentagonal, rather fleshy, pilose, with a central 
depression at the apex; style short, central, glabrous; the stigma 
glabrous, at first ovoid-capitate and very short, at length as long 
as the ovary and splitting into 5 diverging branches; ovules 
numerous in each cell, very small, inserted on fleshy ascending 
placentas attached to the axis of the ovary below its middle ; 
capsule hemispherical, 5-valved, loculicidal; the septa hardening, 
opposite to the persistent calyx-segments ; seeds several, small, 
irregularly ovoid, somewhat compressed ; testa of an open reticular 
structure ; albumen rather thin; embryo rather thick, terete, 
about two-thirds as long as the seed, straight. 
A tree, with alternate serrulate laurel-like simple leaves, and 
axillary or lateral densely paniculate hermaphrodite flowers. 
