Blcphuris] XCIV. ACAXTHACE.K 813 



BENia'F.i.i.A. — Auuual herb ; stem ami linear leaves whitish-glaucous ; 

 riowcrs uiiilabiate, pale cyaneous. At Benguella ; H. June IHIiit. 



7. B. Buchneri ]>inclau in Engl. Bot, Jahrb. xx. p. 30 (1894); 

 1'. K. ('1., I.e., p. 101. 



li. acunthodioides S. Moore, I.e., pp. 229, ."V-JS, 2)aHhi ; non 

 Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. p. 212 (18G1). 



Ambaca. — Annual. In dry hilly places on the left bank of the river 

 Caringa, very rare ; fr. June iSfifj. No. 5163. 



Pi NCi) AM)()N(i(>. — About a foot high ; leaves from oval-oblong to 

 elongate-lanceolate, ranging up to G in. long by an inch broad. A young 

 plant without fl. Feb. IS.")?: probably this species. No. 5219. An 

 annual herb, .sometimes simple 1 to 2 ft. high, sometimes much 

 branched 2 to 4 ft. high ; Howers large, blue, very ornamental. In 

 pastures and in the more sparingly grassy meadows, tolerably plentiful, 

 especially fine at the banks of streams ; by the Catete river : fl. May 1 857. 

 No. 5174. At Canandula : fl. end of May 1857. No. 5112. Leaves 

 ranging up to 4J. in. long. InH. No. 5080. No notes. In fl. No. 5096. 



HriLi.A. — Flowers bright blue, almost azure-blue. In thickets at 

 the outskirts of the Monino forests, sparingly ; fl. April 18i)0. No. 5061. 



8. B. noli-me-tangere S. Moore, I.e., p, 231 ; C. B. ('1., I.e., p. 103. 

 MossAMKUES. — A much branched shrub, 4 to t) ft. high ; branches 



divaricate, tortuous, very hardly elastic, virgate-ascending : bark 

 whitish ; leaves unequal on the same plant ; flowers azure-blue. In 

 gravelly bushy places in little woods composed of Tnmarh; (irieiilalis 

 Forsk. (Welw. herb. no. l()S(j) and a species of C'>rd'"i (cf. Welw. herb, 

 no. 4781), on the right bank of the river Maiombo, between Pedra de 

 Sal and the river : late fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5045. 



9. B. diversispina C. B. CL, I.e., p. 104. 



Aeautliodlum diversispimtm Nees, I.e., p. 275. Blepharis sp. )i., 

 S. Moore, I.e., p. 232. 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers clear blue. In very dry places on a sandy 

 •clay soil near Caldeirado inferno ; very late fl. and young fr. June 18t!0. 

 No. 5014 (2014, by error, in Herb. Kew. ; compare note under />. 

 itnaviivfolM, ante n. G). An annual herb, scarcely ^ ft. high, branched 

 from the base, glaucous and brittle throughout ; leaves linear ; flowers 

 crowded in fir-cone shaped clusters at the base of the stems, pale blue. 

 In the sandy rocky parts of Boca do Rio Bero : fl. end of July 1859. 

 No. 5021. 



Var. (i. furcata. 



A . dlversispinum, var. (i, Noe.s, I.e. B. edulis, var., S. Moore, 

 I.e., p. 229. 



3I()SSAMEi)E.s.— A prostrate, annual or biennial herb, much branched 

 from the base ; flowers unilabiate, pale blue, almost like those of an 

 Acanthus. In sandy places at the mouth of the river Bero, at Saco de 

 Giraiil, rather rare; fl. July 1859. No. 5019. 



13. ACANTHUS Tournef., L. ; Benth. .t Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1090. 



1. A. montanus T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 37 (1863) ; 

 S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 232 ; C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop Afr 

 V. p. 107 (1899). 



Cheilopsis moaiana Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 272 (1847). 



