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apex ; stamens 8, subexserted, free, compressed, comparatively rather 
broad ; anthers adnate, ecaudate ; ovary thinly pubescent, 4-celled ; 
cells with several ovules ; style straight, the same height as the stamens ; 
stigma comparatively large, peltate, hollowed, deep red-purple, more 
or less papillose in the centre. In the more elevated thickets along 
streams in the declivities of Morro de Lopollo, at 5000 to 6000 ft. alt., 
not uncommon, in company with Lycopodium cernuum L. (Welw. herb. 
n. 170) and species of Melastomaceee ; fl. middle of Dec. 1859. No. 2560. 
This shrub is called by the Portuguese colonists ‘‘ Cedro pequeno ” 
(small cedar) or ‘‘ Cypreste do monte ” (mountain cypress) ; in Mossa- 
medes Tamarix orientalis Forsk. is called “ cedro’’; see ante p. 35. 
4. BLASRIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 592. 
1. B. Bugonii Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 327 (1892). 
Huvitia.—A slender shrublet, a foot high ; stems czspitose, erect or 
ascending, twiggy ; twigs erect, the lower ones sterile and densely leafy,. 
the upper ones flowering ; flowers in the living state whitish, occa- 
sionally with a rosy tint, tetramerous or rarely pentamerous, arranged 
in straight compound racemes interrupted in a quasi-verticillate 
manner ; pedicels uni-bracteate ; calyx 4-partite ; the segments linear- 
oblong, glandular-ciliate, equal ; corolla urceolate-campanulate, twice 
as long as the calyx, deeply 4-lobed ; the lobes deltoid, obtuse, erect- 
spreading ; stamens 4, included ; filaments free, nearly smooth ; anthers. 
dehiscing at the apex, brown-reddish ; pores wide, elliptical ; ovary 
4-celled ; cells with several ovules ; style nearly straight, a little or 
rather far exceeding the corolla ; stigma widely peltate, brown-reddish ; 
capsule loculicidally 4-valved, 4-celled ; valves bearing the septum in 
the middle; seeds 3 or 4ineachcell. In an elevated boggy swamp. 
along a stream in Morro de Lopollo towards Empalanca, at 5500 ft. 
alt., in masses but only in one spot and in company with species of 
Commelynacez, Xyris and small Cyperacez; fl. and fr. April 1860.. 
No. 2559. 
Engler, /.c., has unfortunately failed to give effect to Welwitsch’s 
intention of naming this species in honour of Senhor Bayon, an explorer 
of the interior parts of Angola. 
2. B. setulosa Welw. ex Engler, /.c., p. 328 ; Britten in Trans.. 
Linn. Soc., Ser. 2, iv. p. 24 (1894). 
Huitia.—A shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high; stems as thick as a crow’s. 
quill, czespitose, erect or ascending, densely leafy ; leaves ternately 
verticillate ; flowers from whitish to rosy or more or less purplish ; 
calyx-lobes incise-ciliate. In the more elevated mossy swampy thickets 
of Serra de Oiahoia near Humpata ; fl. and young fr. end of April 1860.. 
No. 2558. 
LXXV. PLUMBAGINE. 
1. PLUMBAGO Tournef., L.; Benth. &|Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 627.. 
‘1. P. zeylanica L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 151 (1753) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop.. 
Afr, iii. p. 486 ; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 209 (1884). 
Loanpa.—Stem subscandent ; flowers milk-white ; calyx very viscid. 
By fences near the city at Museque do Senhor Schut, sporadic ; fl. Dec. 
1853. A medicinal plant. No. 518d. 
