636 LXXVI. PRIMULACEZ. [Anagallis 
capsule circumsciss, In swampy pastures with short herbage along 
the banks of the Monino river, very plentiful, in company with species. 
of Drosera, Gentianez, Pepalanthus Wahlbergii Korn. (Welw. herb. 
n. 2455), Xyris, and Ascolepis ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 276. 
In wooded swampy meadows at the banks of the Eme rivulet near 
Lopollo ; fl. and fr. end of Dec. 1859. A small form. No. 276). In 
swamps along the Eme rivulet ; fl. Dec. 1859. A dwarf and narrow- 
leaved form. No. 276c. A cespitose, very shining herb, 3 to 6 in. 
high, perhaps annual ; flowers very numerous, rosy-red. In damp and 
epee pastures near the Monino; fl. from Jan. to March; fr. Coui. 
ARP. 693, 
2. A. acuminata Welw. ex Schinz, l.c. 
Huitia.—A dwarf, erect, annual herb ; stems rather fleshy, turning 
red; leaves strictly erect ; flowers whitish ; calyx-lobes acuminate- 
subulate, rather fleshy ; corolla longer than the calyx, with acutely 
acuminate lobes ; capsule turning red. In damp sandy wooded places 
from Morro de Lopollo towards Empalanca, at an elevation of about 
5300 ft., rather sparingly ; fl. and fr. 13 April 1860. No. 275. This 
plant has much the habit of Centunculus. 
3. A. pumila Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. p. 40 (1788); 
Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. p. 270 (1869). 
Centunculus pentandrus Br. Prodr. p. 427 (1810). C. tenellus 
Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 72 (1844). Micropyxis pumila Duby, 
lc. ; Alph. DC. Geogr. Bot. p. 1035 (1855). 
Punco ANDONGO.—An annual, marsh herblet, 3 to 5 in. high ; stem 
filiform, reddish at the base, quadrangular; leaves opposite, ovate, 
sessile, thinly rather fleshy, lepidote-papillose ; calyx deeply 5-partite, 
green ; corolla white, rather fleshy, but little or scarcely longer than 
the calyx, very deeply 5-partite ; the segments almost separate, ovate ; 
stamens 5, equal in length to the corolla-segments and opposite to 
them ; filaments filiform, at the base dilated-bearded, almost connate 
into a cylinder; anthers ovoid, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing, 
yellowish ; ovary globose, received at the base on a waxy orange- 
coloured disk-like mass, marked with a circular horizontal line, 1-celled ; 
placenta globose, basilar, many-seeded ; style filiform, equalling the 
stamens ; stigma ratber obtuse ; capsule circumsciss. In a wooded 
wet shortly grassy meadow, in masses but seen only in one spot, in 
company with Drosera and Jsoétes, near Sansamanda on the left bank 
of the river Cuanza, fl. 22 Feb. 1857. No. 273. In marshy meadows 
between Condo and Quisonde ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 273d. 
Huriia.—A slender annual erect herb, a digit high ; stem angular, 
mostly purple ; branches and leaves alternate ; flowers white ; calyx 
5-partite ; the segments ovate, acuminate ; corolla a little longer than 
the calyx, urceolate ; the tube globose, clothed around inside at the 
base with a scarlet viscid material of a glandular nature; the limb 
5-cleft, with ovate-lanceolate acuminate lobes ; stamens 5, included ; 
filaments not bearded at the base; ovary globose ; style straight, 
simple, stigma peltate. In meadows or damp pastures, in the elevated 
parts of Morro de Monino, plentiful, about 5300 ft. of altitude, in 
company with species of Utricularia, Xyris, Ascolepis, etc. ; fr. and few 
fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 274. 
The habit is much like that of Centunculus, and the characters 
scarcely differ. 
