Ficalhoa| LXXIV, ERICACE. 633 
Nearly related to Agauria, it differs from it by the shorter 
figure of its corolla, the grouping of its more numerous stamens, 
the toothing of its foliage, ete. 
The name is given in honour of Count Ficalho, professor of 
botany at the Polytechnic School of Lisbon, a friend and fellow- 
worker on African plants. 
1. F. laurifolia Hiern, /.c. 
An evergreen tree, 15 to 20 ft. high or less; trunk attaining 
‘8 in. in diameter ; branches glabrous, terete, spreading, rambling ; 
branchlets leafy, rather slender, at length nodding; leaves ex- 
stipulate, narrowly oval- or ovate-oblong, acuminate towards the 
apex, obtuse at the base, subcoriaceous, rather glossy, deep green 
and glabrous or in part minutely glandular-scaly above, paler 
and sparingly pilose chiefly along the midrib and also minutely 
glandular-scaly beneath, obtusely serrulate on the subcartilaginous 
margin, 2 to 5 in. long by $ to 11 in. broad; the midrib con- 
‘Spicuous, the lateral veins inconspicuous ; petiole usually glabrous, 
4 to } in. long; flowers } to } in. long, white, regular or nearly so, 
on short or very short puberulous or pilose rather thick pedicels, 
arranged in lateral or axillary contracted panicles of 3 to 1+ in. 
in diameter ; bracts oval or broadly ovate, obtuse, usually ciliolate, 
about as large as or smaller than the calyx-segments ; calyx usually 
bracteolate at the base; bracteoles half as long as the calyx; 
«calyx-segments ciliolate, about ~ in. long; corolla about +4 in. 
long, glabrous; the filaments sometimes bent at the apex; style 
(including the stigmatic branches) at length 54, in. long; ovary 
densely and shortly pilose ; capsule about 4 in. in diameter, about 
equalling the adpressed calyx. Occasionally the pistil is hexa- 
merous. Seeds rather pale, about ;4, in. long; embryo whitish, 
about 1, in. long. 
Huriia.—In moist forests at the Lopollo cataracts in Morro de 
Lopollo, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 4808. In thin forests 
between Mumpulla and Nene; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4809. A 
small tree, with a sparse, lax head. In the more elevated parts of 
Morro de Monino, at the banks of streams ; without fl. end of March 
1860. Perhaps a hirsute form of this plant. No. 4810. 
3. PHILIPPIA Klotzsch ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 591. 
1. P. benguelensis Welw. ex Engl. Hochgebirgstl. p. 328 (1892), 
and ex Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc., Ser. 2, iv. p. 24 (1894) 
(P. benguellensis). 
Salaxis benguelensis Engl., J.c. 
Huiiia.—A shrub of 4 to 7 ft. with numerous stems from the base 
cand the habit quite that of an Erica or a Cupressus, or occasionally in 
the form of a small tree, much branched ; leaves 4-verticillate, rather 
thick, pubescent, in the living state intensely green ; petiole broad ; 
flowers purplish, axillary near the apex of the branchlets ; peduncles 
cand calyces thinly hispidulous-pubescent ; calyx more or less regularly 
4-dentate ; one of the teeth elongated, more compact and rigid, erect 
-or a little incurved ; corolla globose, 4-lobed, rather rigidly membranous; 
the lobes very obtuse, delicately but plainly denticulate about the 
