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narrow erect spicate leafy or bracteate racemes terminating 
the stem and branches; pedicels ranging up to } in. long, the 
upper ones shorter ; flower-buds obovoid, } in. long ; in the young 
flower the calyx funnel-shaped, equally toothed, + in. long; the 
teeth deltoid, acute, 4, in. long ; corolla whitish rosy, tubular ; 
the throat dilated; the limb bilabiate, the upper lip bilobed, the 
lower lip trilobed, the tube naked within and purple-striate near 
the base; stamens 4, didynamous, included, inserted on the 
corolla-tube ; filaments filiform, naked; anthers bilocular, the 
cells separate and diverging, the smaller one sub-effete, or quite 
sterile; ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, attenuated ; stigma some- 
what club-shaped, incurved-nodding. 
Hviiia.—In damp pastures and swampy thickets, at an elevation 
of 5300 ft. in Morro de Monino; in flower-bud, 7 April 1860. 
No. 5830. In damp meadows near Lopollo ; fl.-bud middle of March 
1860. No. 5831. 
4. §. simplex Hochst. in Flora xxvii. p. 27 (1844). 
Raphidophyllum simplex Hochst., lc., xxiv. p. 667 (1841). 
Gerdaria Dregeana Presl, Bot .Bemerk. p. 91 (1844). S. Dregeana 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 522 (1846). 
GoLtungo ALTo.—A herb, 1 to 23 ft. high; rootstock perennial, 
thick, almost tubercular, very hard ; stems numerous, erect, green ; 
leaves linear, adpressed to the stem, green; flowers rosy. In the drier 
and more elevated declivities among the mountains of Serra de Alto 
Queta ; fl. and fr. at end of Aug. 1854. No. 5904. 
AmpBaca.—An erect branched herb, apparently perennial ; stem 
angular; leaves linear; flowers rosy, in shape resembling those of 
a Verbascum. In hilly rocky places between Izanga and N-gombe, 
rather rare ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 5912. 
Puneo AnponGo.— At Cabinda in Mata Lucala; fl. and fr. No. 5852. 
Huiitia.—Apparently annual; flowers purple. Among heath (cf. 
Bleria setulosa, Welw. no. 2558), on a declivity from Morro de Lopollo 
towards Humpata ; fl. April 1860. Only one specimen, very doubt- 
fully referred here ; it has more acute calyx-lobes than the others. 
No. 5842. 
5. S. ramosa Hochst., /.c., xxvii. p. 27 (1844). 
Raphidophyllum ramosum Hochst., l.c., xxiv. p. 668 (1841). 
CazEnGo.—A suffrutescent herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, erect, pyramidally 
branched at the top ; flowers coppery purple as those of Verbascum 
pheniceum L. In dry bushy places, at the base of the Muxaula 
mountains, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. June 1855. No. 5911. 
Punco ANnponGo.—At Sansamanda; fl. and fr. 30 April 1857. 
No. 5864. A herb, almost an undershrub, wooy at the base with the 
wood whitish-straw coloured, 4 ft. high and more ; rootstock tuber- 
cular-woody, biennial or triennial ; stem erect, hard, branched from 
the middle to the apex; branches spreading, virgate, all ending in 
racemes of rosy-purplish flowers; placentas of an orange-brick-red 
colour as in S. lanata. In rocky thickets near Cabondo in the 
presidium ; fl. and fr. 3 May 1857. No. 5865. Without fl. or fr. 
Dec. 1856. Apparently this species. No. 5866. 
6. §. Welwitschii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 66 (1893). 
Huiiia.—In the more elevated muddy-rocky pastures, flooded in 
