Siphonanthlifi] XCVI. VEKUENACK.K. iS4-5 



also in moist sandy l»ushy places from Penedo to Quicuxe, not un- 

 common, in dull rainy seasons iiowering and fruiting two or three 

 times in a year : near Quicuxe, H. and fr. 7 Feb. \H'A^. No. 5700. At 

 Penedo ; fr. with scarcely good seetls, April 18r>4. Cum,. (Jaki-. H;">1. 



GoMNiio Ai.Td. — A siirub. formed like a little tree, 4 to (I ft. high; 

 trunk simple, straight ; head much branched ; Howers in shape and 

 colour like dog-violets. In mountainous rocky places about Sange ; H. 

 March 185(». No. 5698. A form with rather larger foliage and Howers. 

 No. 5623. In H. No. 5708. 



Pr.NGo ANiitiM:<>. — -Avery elegant little tree, 7 to '.) ft. high ; trunk 

 slender, straight, below without bnvnchcs ; head l)roadly ovate, densely 

 leafy, G to H ft. in diameter ; leaves membranous but somewhat fleshy, 

 turning black and falling off in drying, deep green and but little glos.sy 

 above, pallid beneath : flowers very abundant, pale blue, the lip more 

 deeply coloured. In the rocky pastures of Pedra de Cabondo, rather 

 rare : fl. Nov. ISotJ. No. 5699. An undershrub, li to 3 ft. high, 

 erect or ascending at the base ; leaves ternate or quaternate, sub- 

 coriaceous, somewhat shining above, paler beneath : flowers handsome, 

 from cornflower-blue to sky-blue, resembling tho.se of a violet. In 

 rocky thickets about Caghuy, plentiful ; fl. end of Nov. 185ti. No. 

 5704. A shrub, 4 to '.I ft. high, much branched from the base ; leaves 

 membranous but somewhat fleshy, deep green above, scented like 

 cooked pork ; corolla pale blue, the lip concave and more deeply 

 violet-blue. In wooded thickets near Quilange; fl. and unripe fr. 

 Dec. 1856. No. 5707. A handsome undershrub, '1 to 3 ft. high ; 

 rhizome woody, polycephalous ; stems numerous, erect or oblicpie, 

 sparingly branched : leaves quaternate, subverticillate. shining ; flowers 

 very pleasantly violet-blue ; drupes turgid, 2- or 3- or rarely 4-loljed, 

 when quite ripe blackish purple, with only a little red juice, eaten by 

 the negroes. On the more barren plains and in rocky thickets about 

 Pungo Andongo, very plentiful; fl. and fr. from Feb. to April 1857. 

 No. 5703. In fl. Nos. 5681. 5683. 



\i\v. herbacea. 



A perennial herl), with many erect bx'aiiche.s from the base, \l to 

 2 ft. high ; llowens pale sky-blue, rather larger than in the type. 



IIrii.r,.v. — In wooded places at lake Ivantala ; fl. and fr. Feb. 18(30. 

 No. 5768. 



This species is probably the plant mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. 

 Cons. Ultramar. Lisboa, No. 7, p. 84. n. Dl (Aug. 1854) : and in Bol. 

 Offic. Gov. Angola, No. 7U0, p. 7. n. 91 (2G Feb. 1859). He described 

 it as a shrub of 4 to (5 ft., with very elegant whitish violet flowers like 

 a violet ; it was found rather rare in Loanda thickets in Jan. 1854. 



13. S. assurgens Hiern, .sp. n. 



A robust undershrub or a shrub of 6 to 10 ft. high, climbing 

 high and widely ; stem.s woody at the base and upwards, becoming 

 whitish, quadrangular ; brandies softly pube.scent ; leaves opposite, 

 oval or somewhat ('lli])tical, pointed obtuse or acuminate at the 

 apex, more or le.'js obIi(iuely narrowed or ol)tu.se at the base, some- 

 what fleshy, rigid, .scarcely glos.sy deep-green and with scattered 

 adpressed hairs above, paler and more closely clothed with hairs 

 and minute glands beneath, entire or nearly so, 3 to 5 in. long by 

 Vf to 3,' in. broad, the floral ones smaller; lateral nerves 4 to 7 

 on each side of the midrib, rather slender; petioles ranging up 



