Melasma} LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACEZ. 769 
MossAMEDES.—A herb, about a foot high, parasitical on the roots 
of other plants ; rhizome orange-fibrillose ; stem simple, erect, purple ; 
spike of flowers about 8 in. long ; bracts and calyces herbaceous-green ; 
corolla like yellow wine in colour, marked with purple nerves. In 
bushy places at the banks of the river Bero ; fl. middle of July 1859. 
No. 5811. 
Hur1tia.—Plant about 10 in. high, twice branched, apparently 
parasitical, with the habit of an Orobanche ; branches erect or nearly 
so. In bushy fields neglected after cultivation, near Mumpulla ; 
fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 5800. 
Both of these Nos. are represented by poor specimens, and the 
determinations are doubtful. 
6. M. atrosanguineum Hiern, sp. n. 
An annual, parasitical, terrestrial herb, about 7 in. high, root 
orange or atrosanguineous in colour; stem branched, glabrate 
and orange soon turning atrosanguineous in colour at the base, 
puberulous above; branches erect-patent; leaves few, small, 
almost bractiform, rather fleshy, atrosanguineous ; flowers sessile, 
arranged in spikes terminating the stem and branches; spikes 
about 2 in. long, dense above, interrupted below, pedunculate, 
erect ; bracts hispidulous, the lower ones oval sessile and about 
% to % in. long, the upper ones sublinear ; calyx broadly cam- 
panulate, hispidulous outside, ciliolate, nearly glabrous inside, 
10-nerved, atrosanguineous, shortly 5-cleft, about 4+ in. long; the 
teeth broadly ovate-triangular, apiculate ; corolla sub-rotate, quite 
naked inside, scarcely exceeding the calyx, orange in colour ; the 
tube short ; limb 5-lobed ; the lobes obtuse, somewhat spreading 
in open flower, nerved outside ; stamens 4, without any rudiment 
of a fifth, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, subequal, all 
fertile; anthers dorsifixed, almost horseshoe-shaped, 2-celled ; 
filaments glabrous or (according to Welwitsch) pilose, not densely 
bearded ; ovary green, globose, glabrous, 2-celled ; ovules numerous 
in the cells ; style firm ; stigma long, curved, obtuse. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In secondary thickets between Sansamanda and 
Caghuy, very sparingly ; fl. 1 May 1857. No. 5853. 
The following No. possibly belongs here :— 
Punco ANDONGO.—An erect herb, a foot and a half high, purplish 
throughout, apparently parasitical, simple, puberulous ; leaves almost 
seale-like, lanceolate, dentate, scattered, 4 to 4 in. long ; flowers spicate 
in bud. In bushy meadows at the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; 
one specimen in young fl.-bud April 1857. No. 5890. 
7. M. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 
A parasitical herb, in form and mode of growth like an 
Orobanche ; rhizome very thick, dusky outside, fleshy and yellowish 
inside ; stems scape-like, scaly, nearly glabrous, leafless, numerous, 
simple or sparingly branched ; 4 to 7 in. high, cylindrical, orange- 
purple at the base, purple-dusky towards the spike of flowers; 
scales small, ovate or oval, obtuse; calyx subequally 5-cleft, 
dusky-purple, about + in. long; the lobes obtuse, ciliate; corolla 
orange in colour ; segments of the limb 5, spathulate, somewhat 
concave at the apex, longitudinally striate outside with prominent 
