Faroa| LXXXY. GENTIANE. (fila 
(Welw. herb. no. 1901), and an Jndigofera ; fl. Oct. 1859 to Jan. 1860 ; 
fr. Feb. and March 1860. No. 1523 and Cott. Carp. 74. 
This (and perhaps also the two species of Chironia) is probably the 
plant referred to by Welwitsch, Synopse Explic. p. 55, n. 144, under 
the Portuguese name of ‘ Fel da terra de flor roxa.” 
5. HIPPION Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. p. 589 (1825), majore parte ; 
F. W. Schmidt in Rim. Archiv. Bot. 1. p. 9 (1796), minima parte. 
Enicostema Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ind. Bat. p. 848 (1826); Benth. 
& Hook, f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 807. 
1. H. verticillatum F. W. Schmidt in Rém., le, i. p. 11; 
Spreng., /.c.; O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. p. 428 (1891) (Hippionum v.). 
Gentiana verticillata L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, i. p. 952 (1759). 
Ericoila verticillata Borckh. in Rom., lc, 1. p. 27. Hnicostema 
littorale Blume, l.c., Enicostemma verticillatum Engl. ex Gilg in 
Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 67 (Feb. 1895). 
BENGUELLA.—A_ herb or undershrub, 3 to 14 ft. high; rhizome 
more or less creeping, descending very deeply, perennial, yellow- 
whitish ; stem erect, glaucous-green, rather fleshy throughout, simple 
or sparingly branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, elongated, 3-nerved, 
amplexicaul, opposite, decussate ; flowers white, turning yellow in 
drying, subsessile, clustered in the axils, 1- or 2-bracteolate, the 
bracteoles linear-lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, erect- 
spreading ; calyx 5- (or occasionally 2- or 3-) lobed ; the lobes erect, 
membranous on the margins ; corolla tubular, 5-cleft, rather fleshy, 
persistent, funnel-shaped ; the lobes erect-spreading, contorted in 
zstivation, ovate, rather blunt, somewhat arched and involute at the 
apex, rather rigid ; stamens 5, sub-exserted, inserted below the middle 
of the corolla-tube ; filaments dilated in an arched manner at the 
base, without intervening teeth, the margin of the arch wavy ; anthers 
oblong, hastate, shortly bilobed at the base, attached at the sinus, 
erect, 2-celled ; the connective produced at the apex into a thin 
apiculus ; ovary obovoid, unilocular ; ovules very numerous, inserted 
at the sutures ; style cylindrical, firm, straight, reaching the middle 
of the anthers; stigma thick, capitate, closely surrounded by the 
anthers ; capsule ovoid or obovoid-oblong, covered with the marcescent 
corolla, unilocular ; placentas sutural ; seeds numerous, comparatively 
not very small, chestnut-rufous, inserted on the placentas by means 
of flattened funicles. In sandy-muddy, sparingly herbaceous places, 
flooded in winter, by the ocean to the south of the city of Benguella, 
in company with Mollugo hirta Thunb. and Cressa cretica L. (Welw. 
herb. no. 6138), not uncommon; fl. and fr. end of June 1859. 
No. 1517. 
MossaMEDEs.—A suffrutescent herb, with yellow root and white 
flowers. In brackish beds of rushes near the mouth of the river Bero, 
near Mossamedes, plentiful ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1518. 
6. SWERTIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 816. 
Sweertia Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ., edit. 2, p. 558 (1844). 
1. §. stellarioides Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p: 225 (1884). 
Adenopogon stellarioides Welw. Synopse Explic. p. 27, n. 59 
(1862). S. Welwitschii Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 359 (1892); 
Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. p. 110 (1898). 
