Llysanthes | LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACEE. 765 
3. I. andongensis Hiern, sp. nov. 
An erect, usually much branched, elegant, slight herb, 2 to 
3 in. high, glabrous throughout or minutely glandular; stem 
tetragonal ; branches more or less divaricate, opposite or alternate ; 
leaves opposite, oval-oblong, obtuse at the apex, somewhat 
narrowed to the rather broad sessile base, quite entire or scarcely 
repand, membranous, herbaceous-green on both faces, ;, to 3 in. 
long by 4 to =4 in. broad ; venation inconspicuous; flowers 
numerous, axillary and terminal, alternate, about 3 in. long; 
peduncles 51, to } in. long ; calyx ;/, to § in. long, funnel-shaped 
campanulate; its lobes 5, broadly ovate, rounded obtuse or 
scarcely apiculate at the apex, about half as long as the tube; 
corolla purple ; the lower lip trifid, about 54, in. long ; the middle 
lobe broadly oblong, obtuse, ,*; in. long; the lateral lobes broadly 
ovate, rather obtuse, ;'; in. long ; the upper lip subentire, ~, in. 
long, obtuse, ovate; perfect stamens 2, posterior, with equal 
anther-cells; staminodia 2, anterior, with filaments, without 
anthers ; fruit oblong or elliptic-oblong, about + in. long ; pericarp 
thin ; seeds minutely papillose. 
Punco ANpDoNGo.—In damp pastures with short grass, between 
Candumba and the river Cuanza, plentiful ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 
No. 5871. 
This is nearly related to J. trichotoma Urb., but the calyx-teeth are 
obtuse ; the following No. possibly belongs here, as a variety :— 
Puneo AnpdoNGO.—A very slender, annual herblet, with an erect 
stem and purple flowers. In the swampy parts of Pedras de 
Guinga, in company with Utricularia exilis Oliv. ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. 
No. 5879. 
4. I, stictantha Hiern, sp. n. 
An annual berb, ¢ to 1 ft. long, mostly prostrate or prostrate- 
ascending, slender, dichotomously or less commonly the upper 
ones trichotomously branched, nearly glabrous or minutely 
glandular-puberulous ; stem and branches pale green, tetragonal ; 
leaves opposite, ovate, subobtuse at the apex, rather abruptly 
narrowed at the subsessile or shortly petiolate base, glaucous 
at least beneath, somewhat fleshy or succulent, serrulate, incon- 
spicuously nerved and veined, $ to 1 in. long by + to 2 in. broad; 
the serratures small, narrowly revolute on the margin ; petioles 
ranging up to j in. long; peduncles alternate, axillary, solitary, 
+ to } in. long, sub-erect or in fruit more or less spreading ; 
flowers solitary, + to 2 in. long; calyx oblong, somewhat narrowed 
at the base, + to+ in. long; persistent, unequally 5-cleft; the 
tube 5-costate ; the lobes lanceolate-subulate, nearly as long as 
or shorter than the tube; corolla white, scattered with atro 
purpureous dots; the upper lip undivided, straight, rounded at 
the apex, fringed ; the lower lobe trifid, with spreading lobes ; 
stamens 4, the two anterior ones fertile, style flattened ; stigma 
laminiform, ovate ; capsule linear-oblong, 2 to 3 in. long, acute 
at the apex. 
Go.tuNnGo ALTO.—In the damp parts of palm groves on the left 
