Striga] LXXXIX, SCROPHULARIACES. (ie 
LoanpA.—A herb, bright green in the living state, even the ovaries 
and capsules herbaceous-green and as also the stem and scales 
varnished-glossy ; flowers violet in colour, open nearly throughout the 
year ; in moist sandy places, parasitical at the roots of Shutereia bicolor 
Choisy (Welw. Coll. Carp. 761), about Loanda, as for instance at 
Represa de Luiz Gomes; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and April 1854. 
Primary stem usually twisted and deformed, the other stems strictly 
erect, 6 to 12 in. high, as well as the ovate-acuminate scale-like leaves 
pale green quickly turning black ; branchlets quite erect, adpressed 
to the stems, floribund as well as the stems ; floral leaves bract-like, 
scarcely reaching half-way up the calyx ; flowers almost always violet, 
very rarely white, never seen otherwise coloured ; calyx-ribs thick, 
raised; the 2 lateral bracteoles lanceolate; in rather damp sandy 
somewhat muddy depressions where rain-water ponds, from Loanda 
towards Quicuxe, plentiful ; fl. and young fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 5916. 
PunGo ANDoNGO.—An annual, green herb, the whole plant turning 
black in drying ; flowers lilac. In damp bushy places at the river 
Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5848. 
MossaMEepDES.—A dusky red herb with pale bluish flowers. In 
sandy bushy places at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, 
sparingly ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5824. 
2. §. Thunbergii Benth. in Hook., /.c., p. 363. 
Buchnera asiatica L. Sp. Pl, edit. 1, p. 630 (1753) partly. 
B. bilabiata Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. p. 100 (1800). 
PunGo ANDONGO.—A somewhat fleshy herb, green in the living 
state ; flowers very bright violet in colour. In moist pastures near 
Condo ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 5854. 
HviLia.—Flowers red-purple. In the damp meadows of the 
Monino, in company with species of Primulacez and Burmannia bicolor 
Mait. var. africana Ridl. (Welw. Herb. No. 6473); fl. and fr. Dee. 
1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 5822. 
3. 8. canescens Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 361 (1895). 
Hvuitita.—An annual herb; root subsimple; stems few, very 
slender, erect ; leaves opposite, lanceolate-linear, subulate ; adpressed 
closely to the stem ; flowers pale lilac. In little woods of Proteacee, 
among herbs, at the river Monino, sparingly; fl. end of Nov. 1859. 
No. 5823. 
In our specimens the lobes of the anterior lip of the corolla are 
ovate-oblong rather than lanceolate, and the plants are less hoary than 
in the type. 
4. §. Welwitschii Eng]. in. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. 514, t. xii. fig. P, G. 
Hvriiya.—An annual, parasitical, pilose-viscid, canescent herblet, in 
habit somewhat resembling a species of thyme ; stem erect, sparingly 
branched towards the apex ; flowers pale lilac. In thickets on a sandy 
clay soil, about Lopollo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5820. 
Flowers whitish ; in sandy thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo 
river ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. Flowers white; in hilly bushy sandy 
places among short grasses, between the Ivantala lake and Quilengues ; 
fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 5821. 
5. §. elegans Benth. in Hook., /.c., p. 363. 
Punco ANDONGO.—A green parasitical herb, with splendid scarlet 
flowers. In moist meadows near Sobato N-billa ; fl. and fr. March 
1857. No. 5851. 
