Heliotropium | LXXXVI. BORAGINES. 719 
IcoLto E Benco.—In places flooded in summer near Funda ; fl. and 
fr. Sept. 1857. No. 5435. 
LoANDA.—Represa do Luis Gomes at Alto das Cruzes; fl. and fr. 
Feb. 1854. No. 5439. Annual; flowers whitish. In damp drying-up 
places near Imbondeiro dos Lobos; fl. and fr. March 1858. No. 5442. 
An erect, annual herb, with the habit of a Myosotis, branched from 
the base ; primary stem straight, erect ; lateral branches ascending ; 
flowers whitish. In nearly dried-up marshy places near Alto das 
Cruzes, and at the margins of lakes (near Funda); plentiful; fl. and 
fr. 14 April 1858. No. 5441. An annual herb, pleasantly green in 
the living state, quickly turning grey-hoary when dried; stem 
oblique; branches spreading; flowers white. By drying-up pools 
between Bemposta and Camama ; fl. and fr. July 1858. No. 5440. 
CazENGO.—An erect, hispid-scabrid, annual herb, with the habit of 
an Echinospermum, 14 to 3 ft. high ; flowers whitish. At the outskirts 
of primeeval forests near the banks of the river Luinha, but only in a 
few spots ; fl. and fr. end of Dec. 1854. No. 5447, 
MossaAMEDES.—A decumbent-ascending, hoary herb, with white 
flowers. In sandy maritime and hilly. dry places at Praia da Amelia, 
plentiful; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5290. In the sandy bed of the 
river Bero; fl. Aug. 1859. No. 5289. Im gravelly places by the 
banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. 14 June 1860. No. 5288. 
6. H. strigosum Willd. Sp. Pl. i. p. 743 (1797). 
Punco ANDONGO.—An erect herb, with the aspect of an Echino- 
spermum ; flowers from whitish to slightly yellowish. In the hot 
parts of Pedras de Guinga, plentiful; fl. and fr. Jan. and March 1857. 
No. 5451. An annual herb, 4 in. or scarcely a foot high, rather rigid, 
of a pleasant bright green colour in the living state, at length turning 
hoary in drying; flowers whitish ; style apparently terminal. In 
hot wooded rather sandy parts of Mutollo, by Pedras de Guinga, 
in company with myosotis-like Rubiacez ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 
No. 5454. At Pedras de Guinga, Cuanza; fl. and fr. No. 5455. 
MossaAMEDES.—A shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems numerous, woody 
at the base, the wood remarkably yellow; epidermis whitish, separating 
in flakes ; leaves linear, rather rigid. In red-sandy rocky places at 
the base of Serra de Montes Negros ; fl.-bud 10 Aug. 1859. No. 5299. 
No notes; in fl. No. 5298. 
7. H. erosum Lehm. in Neue Sch. Naturf. Ges. Halle, iii. 2, 
p- 15 (1817). 
CaPE DE VERDE IsLANps.—An annual herb; stem erect or 
usually ascending ; leaves pleasantly green ; flowers whitish or rarely 
pale yellowish. In uncultivated rocky places about Cidade de Praia 
in the island of St. Jago, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 5470. 
This plant bears a very close resemblance to H. undulatwm Vahl. 
8. H. indicum L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 130 (1753). 
Heliophytum indicum DC. Prodr. ix. p. 556 (1845); Welw. 
Apontam. p. 589, n. 65 (1859). 
Lizonco.—A pleasing herb, but scentless, with deep green leaves 
and whitish violet or quite violet-coloured flowers. About Banza de 
Libongo, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 5458. 
IcoLo — BENGo.—An erect herb, 3 ft. high, branched above. In 
sandy moist places at the river Zenza near Tandambondo ; fi. and fr. 
Sept. 1854. No. 5427. 
LoanpA.—An annual, much-branched herb of 2 to 4 ft., in shady 
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