Jlarlcriu] Xfiv. ArANTHACE.K. 815 



shrublct ; flower a/.ure-blue. 1 1 in. loug. In :i very dry rocky part of 

 Caldeira do inferno ; only one specimen with fr. and a single fl. June 

 18t)0. No. 5013. A rigid shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high; flowers bright 

 l>lue. At. (.'aldcira do inferno ; fr. June 18G0. Cou.. Caki'. 8.'')8. 



I. B. elegans 8. Moore, I.e., p. 269 ; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 151. 



Ji. pKiigens; var. wan'ophi/Ua Nees in I)( '. Prodr. .xi. p. 2.'>7 

 (1847), Jidc S. :Moore, I.e. ; nou L. 



L()ANt;\. — An undershrub, '.'> to 5 ft. high, suLscandent among 

 shrubs, ornamental but injurious to them ; leaves in the living state 

 deep green, membranous ; corolla deep blue. By thickets in the 

 hilly parts of the district, very plentiful ; H. May and June 1858. 

 No. 5187. In H. and fr. No. 5068. A shrub. 3 to 4 ft. high : 

 flowers very abundant : caly.x spiny-ciliate : corolla beautifully blue. 

 At Zamba grande : fr. August ]X!')4. Cui.i.. Cakp. 120. 



C.\;oi'N'ii'>. — A rigid herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, woody at the base, .some- 

 times ascending, sometimes erect, usually very much branched at the 

 base ; flowers of a pretty blue. In the denser thickets about the 

 Muxaulo chain of mountains, tolerably plentiful ; fl. June 1855. 

 No. 5114. 



BuMPo. — In the drier thickets among tall herbs between Bumbo and 

 Bruco ; fr. Oct. 1869. Nos. 5034, 5122. 



This is the Acanthacea mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. Cons. 

 Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May IS.'.G), p. 2^0, n. 120. 



5. B. Carruthersiana S. Moore, I.e., p. 270 ; ('. 15. CI., I.e., p. 154. 



Bu.MF. \ — Flowers blue. In thickets at the outskirts of forests 

 composed of (.'opaibn Mopanc O. Kuntze (Welw. herb. no. ()05), near 

 Quitibe de Cima ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5040. 



G. B. polyneura S. Moore, I.e., p. 206 ; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 157. 



Huu.j.A. — A perennial herb: rootstock woody; stems numerous, 

 prostraxe-ascending, puberulous ; leaves subsessile, ovate, rigidly 

 chartaceous, quite entire, bright green, the uppermost ones glaucescent ; 

 corolla white, the tube purplish. In sunny rocky forests between the 

 lake lvant;lla and Quilengues : fl. and young fr. 28 and 29 Febr. 1860. 

 No. 5029. 



7. B. violascens S. Moore, I.e., p. 265 ; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 158. 



HuiLL.4. — A perennial herb, with the habit of an Ipomaa ; stems 

 several, subangular, prostrate-ascending, rubicund, leafy : leaves 

 glaucescent, erect, somewhat fleshy and rigid : flowers solitary in the 

 a.xils of opposite leaves, shortly pedicellate, lA in. long ; calyx 

 4-bracteolate at the base, diphyllous, the segments elongated ovate- 

 lanceolate and acute ; the two lower bracteoles linear, the two upper 

 ones broadly ovate ; corolla hypogynous, funnel-shaped or cylindrical- 

 tubular, milk-white ; the tube bright violet-purple both outside and 

 inside ; the limb deeply .">. cleft ; the lobes obtuse, subequal ; stamens 4, 

 inserted a little above the base of the corolla tube, 2 of them quite 

 rudimentary and without filaments, the filaments of the other 2 

 ascending, naked ; anthers oblong, '2-celled, quite naked, violet in 

 colour ; the cells somewhat diverging at the base, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally, both exactly equal ; disk cupuliform, repand ; ovary 'J-celled; 

 ovules 2 in each cell : style simple, whitish ; stigma unequally 

 bilabiate, scarcely perforated, pale violet in colour, reflected at the 

 early flowering ; capsule globose-compressed at the base, 2-celled, 

 narrowed towards the apex into a conical beak : seeds 2. In elevated 



