Feialidmrn] xciv. ACANTHACEiE. 811 



deep green, somewhat viscid : flowers scarlet. In rough mountainous 

 places on a mica-schist formation, at the river Maiombo, near Poman- 

 gala ; fl. Oct. l8o!i. No. 5017- In shrubby places in the same neigh- 

 bourhood ; fl. June ]S60. No. 5018. 



10. MICRANTHUS Wendl. Bot. Beob. p. 38 (1798) ; uon Pers. 

 (1805) (sect. Gladioli). 



Phaylopsis Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 34i> (1801) ; Benth. k Hook. f. 

 (ien. PI. ii. p. 1081. Phaidopsis Sprang. Anl. ii. 1, p. 422 (1817). 



1. M. angolanus (,). Kuntze, Rev. (^en. PI. ii. p. 493 (1891). 

 Phaj/lopsis ainiolana S. Mooi'e in Journ. Bot. 1800, p. 229 ; 



C. B. CI. in Fl. trop. Afr. v. p. 84. 



Goi.uNfJO Alto. — A herb : stem rooting at the lower nodes, flexuous ; 



flowers white. In bushy places among the mountains of the eastern 



Queta at Catomba ; fl. beginning of July 1850. No. 5175. 



The following No. must be compared with M. angolanus : — 

 Zenza I)(» Gonxcio. — A herb, annual, straight, viscid. In dry hilly 



bushy places near Calumguembo ; fr. without leaves Sept. 1854. 



No. 5146. 



2. M. obliquus O, Kuntze, I.e. 



Phai/lopsis obliqua T. And. ex S. Moore, I.e. ; C B. Gl., I.e., 

 p. 86. Phaidopsis ohliquns Lindau in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam., 

 Nachtrag, p. 305 (1897). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — An annual herb; stem ascending; branches 

 twisted : flowers white. In secondary thickets at the outskirts of 

 the forest near the river Delamboa ; fr. and few fl. June and July 

 1856. No. 5115. 



11. WHITFIELDIA Hook. ; Benth. ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1085. 



1. W. longifolia T. And. in Journ. Linn. See. vii. p. 27 (1863), 

 partly ; S. ]\loore in Journ. Bot. 1800, p. 220 {longiflom), partly ; 

 C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 66. 



Cazem;o. — In the primitive forests of Muxaulo : fl. June 1855. 

 No. 5152. 



PvNfjo AM)(iN(;(t. — Branches patent. Fl. No. H)86. No notes. 

 Fl. No. 5193. Branched, apparently several feet high ; flowering 

 epikes erect or scarcely so ; fl.-bud. No. 5077. 



2. W. subviridis C. B. CI., I.e., p. 60. 

 W. lonyijiora 8. Moore, I.e., partly. 



(it>LU.\(;(» Alto.— A shrub as tall as a man : flowers and calyx 

 brilliantly white, very handsome. In elevated shady places at the 

 cataracts of tlie Capopa stream, in Sobato de Bumba, not common ; fl. 

 «nd of August 1855. No. 5151. No notes. Fl.-bud. Piobably this 

 species. No. 5153. 



12. BLEPHARIS Juss. ; Benth. vt Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1089. 



1. B. boerhaviaefolia Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 180 (18(i7); 8. Moore 

 in Journ. Bot. (1880) p. 230, C. B. Cl. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 96 

 {boerhaa v ia'folia), 



LoA.MiA.— No notes. Fl. and fr. Nos. 5129. 5199. 



