804 xciv. ACANTHACE^. [Thimbenjia 



Jan. and March I860. Coll. Carp. 31. In mountainous wooded 

 rather dry places at the lake of Ivantrda ; fr. 29 Feb. 1860. Coll. 

 Carp. 827. 



8. T. angolensis S. Moore, I.e., p. 195 ; Burkill, I.e., p. 24. 

 Huilla. — A very beautiful plant, clothed on all parts with a white 



tomentum ; flowers pale azure-blue. In thickets between Mumpulla 

 and Humpata, in company with species of Gnidia (of. G. Rendlei ; 

 Welw. herb. no. ()478) and Tliesium (cf. T. WehvUschii, Welw. herb, 

 no. G436) ; fl. Oct. 18.")!). No. 5037- In wooded thickets between 

 Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. end of Oct. 1859. No. 5038. 



9. T. lancifolia T. And. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. vii. p. 19 (1863) : 

 Burkill, I.e., p. 25. 



Var, a. auriculata 8. Moore, I.e., p. 195. 



Huilla. — An erect, branched, perennial, rather rigid herb ; stems 

 several, li to 2 ft. high ; leaves coriaceous, deep green ; calyx shortly 

 cupuliform, irregularly denticulate, bibracteolate ; corolla handsome, 

 campanulate-infundibuliform, \-l in. long, deep blue ; the tube orange 

 in colour, thickened ; the throat inflated ; the limb sub-bilabiate, 5-clef t, 

 spreading; the lobes obtuse ; stamens 4, but little didynamous ; anthers 

 2-celled ; the equal cells obtuse and densely bearded at the base, con- 

 nately mucronate at the apex ; filaments dilated at the apex ; stigma 

 funnel-shaped, dilated at the apex with a triangular margin ; seeds 

 hemispherical. Mostly in bushy sandy places about Lopollo, sparingly ; 

 ti. and fr. Dec. 1859 to April 1860. No. 5011 and Coll. Carp. 828. 



Var. p. laevis S. Moore, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect, branched, glaucous-green, perennial 

 herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; rhizome thickly woody ; stems numerous ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, somewhat fleshy, becoming rigid ; flowers very 

 handsome ; corolla-tube yellow outside and more intensely so inside : 

 the limb deep blue ; fruits 1] to 1^ in. long. On the elevated rather 

 dry slopes of Sobato Quilombo-Quiacatubia, at Comahoge ; fr. and a 

 few fl. middle of July 1856. No. 5110. 



Amraca. — A branched, somewhat erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 very handsome deep blue flowers resembling a Gloxinia. On 

 busby muddy declivities to the east of Izanga, plentiful; fl. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 5161. 



Var. y. pallida S. Moore, I.e. 



Huilla. — In the wooded thickets of the Monino, rather rare ; fl. 

 and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 5012. A perennial 

 herb, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems numerous ; flowers handsome, blue ; 

 fruit 1 in. long. In thickets near Lopollo, rare ; fr. Jan. 18G0. 

 Coll. Carp. 826. 



10. T. hyalina S. Moore, I.e., p. 195 ; Burkill, I.e., p. 26. 

 PuNGo AxDONGo. — A perennial herb ; root tubercular-woody ; 



stems numerous, 1 to 2J ft. high ; flowers coppery purple, orange- 

 coloured inside and on the tube outside ; unripe capsule about an inch 

 long. In rocky hillj' places at the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; fl. 

 andyoungfr. 30 April 1857. No. 5164. 



The following No. is 'incomplete and insufficient for specific 

 determination; see S. Moore, I.e., p. 196 : — 



PuN(;o Andongo. — Fruit solitary, shortly pedunculate : calyx- 



