Desmochota] CI. AMARANTlIACEiE. 891 



PiNCd ANDoNMid.— An extensively but not high climbing herb or a 

 widely climbing undershrub of 3 to G ft., apparently rather rarely 

 flowering : stems divaricately intertwined with other shrubs ; flowers 

 whitish, clustered in long or ellipsoidal pale whitish straw-coloured 

 heads. In the wooded thickets of the j)ra3sidinm, plentiful, in Mata de 

 Cambondo, tl. and fr. Dec. IHHC) : by thickets in the small primitive 

 forest of Cabondo, rather rare, tl. and fr. April 1H57 : also in Mata de 

 Pungo by streams, fl. and fr. beginning of June lHo7. NH. 6564. 



3. D. distorta Hiern, sp, n. 



An under.shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, bent and twi.stcd in various 

 dirocti()n.s ; bi-ancbe.s rigid, smooth, glabrate, subterote, drab ; 

 branchlets hispid-pubescent with pallid ascending hairs ; leavas 

 opposite and often quasi-fasciculate with abbreviated leafy shoots 

 in their axils, broadly ovati' or oval, obtuse or subcuspidate at the 

 apex, obtuse or slightly wedge-shaped at the base, more or less 

 clothed on both faces with sub-adpre.ssed slender hairs arising 

 from a thicker base, entire or nearly so, firmly herbaceous, 

 yellowish green in the dry state, ^ to 1 ] in. long by I to ^ in. broad ; 

 petiole 1 to \ in. long, hispid-pubescent ; inflorescence capitate, 

 snbsessiie, ovoid-conical, ^ to f in. long by \ to -^ in. in diameter 

 near the base, terminating the branchlets and lateral shoots ; 

 partial inflorescence 2-flowered, bracteolate ; bracteoles broadly 

 ovate, concave, boat-shaped, scarious except the hairy keels of the 

 outer ones, minutely ciliolate-fringed, i to J in. long ; perianth- 

 leaves 5, lanceolate-oblong, concave, feebly ribbed, ~ to \ in. long, 

 pilose at the back above, rather dusky towards the base ; stamens 

 5 ; filaments slender, united at the base in a very short tube or 

 cup, longer than the short quadrate or oblong alternating stami- 

 nodes ; style slender, glabrous, exceeding the stamens. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded thickets at Lopollo ; fl. and fr. beginning of 

 Feb. 1860. No. 6487. 



8. PUPAL Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 268 (17G3), excl. syn. Rheed. 

 Hort. Malab. vii. t. 43. 



Pupalia Juss. in Ann. Mus. Par. ii. p. 132 (1803), excl. syn. 

 Rheed. H. M. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 31, excl. syn. 

 Syama ; non INIart. (1826). Desmochceta DC. Cat. Ilort. Monspel. 

 p. 101 [l^U), partly. 



The plant of Rheede, I.e., which is Syama Jones in Asiat. Res. 

 iv. p. 261 (1795), by mi.stake printed Lyaraa and inaccurately 

 quoted in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 669 (1882), is (excluding 

 the fruit) Ichnocarpus frutescens R. Br. 



1. P. lappacea Juss., I.e., {Pitpalia), excl. syn. Rheed. Hort. 

 Malab. vii. t. 43. 



Achyranthes lappacea L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 204 (1753). Desvio- 

 chceta Jlavescens DC, I.e., p. 102. 



Ambriz.— In fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 6629&. 



Bakua do Bengo. — An erect herb, 2 to 4 ft. high, with erect-patent 

 branches, flowering from February to June ; the lateral branches 



