816 xciv. ACANTHACE-?:. [BarUria 



thickets in Morro de Lopollo, at 5000 to 5300 ft. alt., plentiful ; fl. 

 and fr. 17 Feb. 18(50. No. 5028- Corolla like that of a Convolvulus 

 or Ipomvca, whitish with a strain of violet-blue. In the dry forests of 

 Parmari Mohnln, towards Erne ; fl. April 1860. No. 5016. 



8. B. obtusisepala C. B. CI., I.e., p. 158. 



B. .sp. nov. aff. B. salic'ifolia 8. Moore, Z.f., p. 270. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial, erect herb, becoming rigid 

 throughout ; rootstock thick, woody : flowers rather large, funnel- 

 shaped, whitish with something of a violet strain. In wooded 

 thickets between Mangue and Calunda ; fl. March 1857. No. 5162. 



9. B. Welwitschii S. Moore, I.e., p. 267 ; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 158. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — Leaves membranous; flowers milk-white. In 



Tocky bushy places between Lombe and Quibinde ; fl. 9 March 1857. 

 No. 5091. 



10. B. lancifolia T. Ander.s. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 28 

 .(4 March 1863). 



B. alata S. Moore, I.e., p. 266 ; C. B. CL, I.e., p. 158. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A deep green shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves thinly 

 coriaceous ; flowers milk-white, almost bluish. In primitive forests 

 in the Queta chain of mountains, sporadic ; fl. beginning of June 

 1856. No. 5147- A perennial herb ; rhizome woody, creeping ; 

 flowers milk-white varying to violet-blue. In the shady Queta 

 forests; fl. end of June 1856. No. 5148. Flowers white, like those 

 of a Thunhcrgia. Among the Queta mountains; fl. July 1856. 

 No. 5169. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A suffruticose herb, branched, at the base 

 woody and a finger thick : stem and purplish branches nodose, 

 ■decumbent-ascending over rocks ; flowers from whitish to pale violet 

 in colour ; calyx 4-partite, almost tetraphyllous, the front and back 

 segments much larger than the narrow and shorter lateral ones : 

 corolla-tube straight, the limb 5-clef t, the lobes obtuse ; perfect 

 stamens 2, inserted at the bottom of the corolla-tube, nearly included : 

 anthers cordate-ovate, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing ; ovary ovoid- 

 conical, girt at the base by the thin raised cup-shaped disk ; style 

 filiform, relatively long, towards the apex gradually terminating in the 

 obtusejobsoletely bilobed usually simple stigma. In bushy rocky places 

 about Barrancos de Catete ; fl. and young fr. middle of May 1857. 

 Nos. 5195, 5194. 



The following No. probably belongs to this species : — 

 Cazen(;o. — Flower-buds about 2 together, subsessile in the terminal 

 axils. At Cambondo ; fl.-buds June 1855. No. 5072. 



11. B. cyanea S. Moore, I.e., p. 265; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 159. 

 Bumbo. — A decumbent-ascending, rigidly elastic shrublet with deep 



blue flowers. In bushy sandy and rocky places near Quitibe de Cima: 

 fl. June 1860. No. 5002. 



12. B. stellato-tomentosa S. Moore, I.e., p. 268 ; C. B. CI., ^.c, 

 p. 161. 



PuxGO Anuongo. — A sufifrutescent herb ; rootstock woody ; stems 

 3 or 4, erect ; flowers violet-bluish ; corolla \h in. long, the tube 

 narrow, the limb an inch in diameter. In open thickets on a clay 

 soil near Lombe, not common ; fl. March 1857. Nos. 5165, 5095. 



