Ehretia| LXXXVI. BORAGINER. roy; 
arranged in terminal scorpioid spreading pilose-puberulous cymes 
of 8 in. in diameter and 5 in. in length; calyx hemispherical, 
jz in. long, puberulous, 5-cleft ; the lobes deltoid; corolla broadly 
funnel-shaped ; the tube about equalling the calyx; the lobes of 
the limb 5, cval-oblong, obtuse, about 4 in, long, reflected; 
stamens 5, inserted at the corolla-throat between the lobes, 
exserted, glabrous; filaments } in. long; anthers 4, in. long ; 
style glabrous, shortly bifid, 5 in. long ; ovary ovoid, ;1* in. long, 
4-celled. 
PriNnceE’s Istanp.—In a wooded place in the maritime part of the 
island ; only one tree seen, and on this only one branchlet in fl., Sept. 
1853. No. 5465. 
This is related to E. cymosa Thonn., but differs by larger and broad- 
based leaves with pits in the axils of the lateral veins beneath. 
3. COLDENIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 841. 
1. C. procumbens L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 125 (1753). 
C’. angolensis Welw. Apontam. p. 591, n. 104. 
Barra DO DanpeE.—In clayey-sandy and muddy places, flooded in 
summer but dry at the time, about lakes on the right bank of the 
river Dande, near Bumbo, plentiful ; fr. Sept. 1858. No. 5445. 
Barra DO BeNGO.—An annual prostrate herb, bright green in the 
living state ; leaves not so plicate as in specimens growing in dry 
places ; flowers white. By pools in hilly places near Cacuaco ; fl. and 
fr. March 1854. No. 5438. 
Loanpa.—An annual herb, divaricately branched from the crown of 
the root ; branches distichously ramulose, 2 to 4 ft. long, decumbent 
or even adpressed to the ground ; leaves distichous, unequal-sided, 
coarsely dentate, the nerves running out towards the sinuses between 
the teeth ; corolla 4-cleft, white ; stamens 4. Plentiful but only ina 
few places about drying-up pools, near Represa de Luis Gomes; fl. 
and fr. Nov. 1853 and April 1854. No. 5436. An annual, prostrate 
herb, ashy-hoary with adpressed rigid white hairs; leaves soft, 
unequal-sided, obovate-olong, deeply crenate, almost crenate-lobulate ; 
flowers white, very fugacious, not uncommonly extra-axillary, of 
various sizes on the same plant; calyx and corolla always 4-cleft ; 
corolla-lobes obtuse, somewhat spreading at the time of the flower ; 
corolla whitish cream in colour, only in the middle of the branchlets 
of the fully developed stem, almost shorter than the calyx or equally 
long ; germen glabrous. In muddy dried-up parts of rain-pools near 
Alto das Cruzes, plentiful but only in a few spots, flowering from 
April to July and again in Nov. and Dec. ; fl. and fr. May and July 
1858 ; at Represa de Luis Gomes, fl. and fr. 14 July 1858. No. 5487. 
In hot places about dried-up marshes, from 20 to 25 miles towards 
the east from Loanda ; fr. Sept. 1858. Couu. Carp. 757. 
4, HELIOTROPIUM Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 
i. p. 843. 
1. H. supinum L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 130 (1753). 
MossaMeEpEs.—In sandy places by the banks of the river Bero, 
plentiful ; not in full fl, Aug. 1859. No. 5286. An annual, prostrate, 
much-branched herb, green in the living state, quickly turning hoary 
in drying ; flowers white. In rather dry places, in company with 
species of Arthocnemum (Welw. herb. no. 6329) and Heleochloa 
