774 LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACE#, [Sopubia 
summer, in Serra Oiakoya, plentiful; fl. and fr. Feb. March and April 
1857. No. 5841. 
7. S. cana Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. p. 29, t. 146 (1864). 
S. angolensis Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 67 (1893). 
Hvi_ia.—Flowers reddish purple or bluish purple. Among low 
bushes in pastures flooded in the rainy season, plentiful ; fl. and 
fr. Jan. 1860. No. 5843. Ivantala; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. The 
specimens stain paper a primrose-yellow colour. No. 5844. 
Our specimens differ from the type of Harvey’s species by rather 
larger flowers, but some from the Transvaal, doubtless belonging to 
the species, have flowers of about the same size as ours. 
8. §. lanata Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 67 (1893). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A perennial plant ; stem densely leafy, straight. 
In damp bushy places at the banks of the Luxillo streams in declivities 
towards the river Cuanza; without fl. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 5857. 
An erect, leafy, annual or biennial herb; stem about the middle 
branched like a broom; flowers rosy. In moist bushy pastures near 
Quibinda, plentiful, and very rarely in the rocky parts of the 
presidium ; fl. March, fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 5863. In Pedras 
de Guinga, in fl. No. 5856. 
9. S. argentea Hiern, sp. n. 
Suffruticescent, 9 to 18 in. high; rootstock perennial, woody, 
giving off long wiry fibres; stems several, erect or ascending, 
simple or branched chiefly near the base, woody and glabrescent 
below, herbaceous-wiry and silvery silky-tomentose above, leafy ; 
leaves lanceolate or elliptical-linear, pointed at the apex, some- 
what narrowed to the sessile base, more or less silvery silky- 
tomentose on both faces, entire, narrowly revolute on the lateral 
margins, crowded, } to 1} in. long; flowers axillary, shortly 
pedunculate ; peduncles ranging up to 2 in. long at least in fruit, 
bibracteolate at the apex ; bracteoles rather more than } in. long, 
like the leaves but linear and smaller; calyx nearly + in. long, 
5-cleft half-way down, silvery silky outside ; the lobes triangular- 
lanceolate, acute; the tube glabrous inside ; corolla about } in. in 
diameter, membranous, glabrous, the limb very short ; the limb 
rotate at the top of the calyx-tube ; stamens 4, exserted, scarcely 
didynamous; anthers 2-celled, one cell very narrow; style 
exserted ; capsule } to 4 in. long, scarcely equalling the persistent 
calyx. 
Hviiia.—In pastures at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., by little 
forests of Proteaces, among the Serra de Neva mountains in Morro 
de Lopollo, rather plentiful ; fl. and fr. Apriland May 1860, No. 5845. 
21. STELLULARIA Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. p. 12, 
t. 1318 (1880). 
Benthamistella O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 458 (1891). 
Dr. Kuntze, lc., rejects Bentham’s name on account of 
Stellularia L. Syst. Nat., edit. 6, ii. p. 106 (1748) ; this latter is, 
however, Stellaria L. (1753). 
1. §. nigrescens Benth., J.c. 
Benthamistella nigricans O. Kuntze, lc. 
