892 CI. AMARANTHACE.E. [Pupal 



flowering and the primaiy stem fruiting. In low dense thickets 

 between Quifandango and Barra do Bengo ; fl. and fr. May 1854. 

 (Also in the district of Loanda.) No. 6529. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A grey-green, erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 quite patent somewhat rigid branches and from whitish to greenish 

 flower-spikes. In the wooded parts of the primitive forest of Quibanga ; 

 fl. and fr. April 1856. No. 6552. 



MossAMEDES. — An erect, annual herb. In sandy thickets at the 

 river Bero ; only one specimen collected, 8 in. high ; in fr. July 1859. 

 Perhaps this species. No. 6500. 



2. P. huillensis Hievn, sp. n. 



A rigid, divaricately branched herb, 2 ft. high or more ; 

 branches opposite, subterete, glabrescent ; branchlets tetragonal, 

 furrowed ; leaves opposite, oval or broadly ovate, rounded or shortly 

 narrowed at the apex, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the 

 base, herbaceous, more or less clothed with adpressed scattered 

 hairs on both faces, rather paler beneath, shortly ciliate on the 

 entii-e subrepand or slightly crenulate-undulate margins, f to 2 

 in. long by f to li in. broad ; petiole ^ to |^ in. long ; inflorescence 

 dense, capitate, subglobose or ovoid-oblong, f to li in. long, f to 

 -| in. in diameter, pedunculate, terminal and in the uppermost 

 axils ; the terminal common peduncles ranging up to 2 in. long, 

 the axillary ones very short ; flowers polygamous or monoecious, 

 clustered, 2 or 3 or several together, pentamerous, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, 1^ to i in. long, some abortive ; bracteoles oval, terminating 

 in a long subulate apiculus, hooked at the tip, concave, boat- 

 shaped, hyaline, equalling or exceeding the flowers ; perianth- 

 segments 5, oval-oblong, i to i in. long, paleaceous or scarious, 

 some or all apiculate ; stamens 5 ; filaments slender, united in 

 a short cup below ; anthers about as long as the free portion of 

 the filaments ; staminodes ; style long, slender, longer than the 

 stamens, shorter than the perianth ; ovary glabrous ; ovule 

 solitary, pendulous. 



HuiLLA. — Among tall bushes, near LopoUo, towards the Monino, 

 sporadic ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 6493. 



9. NOTHOS^RVA Wight; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 34. 

 (Nothoscerua). 



1. N. brachiata Wight, Ic. vi. p. 1 (1853). 



Achyranthes brachiata L. Mant. PI. p. 50 (1767). Illecebrum 

 brachiatum L. Mant. PI. alt. p. 213 (1771). Aerva brachiata 

 Mart, in Acad. Cses. Leop. Nova Acta xiii. p. 291 (1826). 

 Pseudanthus brachiatm Wight, Ic. v. 2, p. 3 (1852), vi. t. 1776 bis 

 B (1853). 



Barka do Bengo and Loanda. — An annual herblet, erect or 

 ascending, with usually purplish stems and silvery white flower-spikes. 

 In moist places at the banks of the river Bengo near Santo Antonio ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 ; at Represa do Senhor Manuel Pereira van 

 Hunnen, fl. and fr. beginning of July 1854 and in Aug. ; by dried-up 

 ponds between Quicuxe and Mutollo, fl. and fr. July 1854 ; at Imbon- 

 deiro dos Lobos, fl. and fr. Feb. 1858. No. 6534. 



