Pohjgoninn] Civ. polyoonace.e. 'J05 



This pbxnt was met with also in abundance by rather deep ponds at 

 Represa do Manuel Pereira van Ilunnen in the district of Loanda : it 

 Howers from December to INIarch, and is perennial : its hollow stem is 

 constricted at the nodes and remarkably moniliform, that is. the 

 joints are strongly inflated : the stem is sometimes erect and 1 to o ft. 

 high, and sometimes decumbent and (1 to 12 ft. long by an inch in 

 diameter ; it is throughout of a pretty reddish colour. 



6. P. tomentosum Willd. Sp. PI. ii. p. 447 (1799). 



Cf. Iluiittuyn, Handle id. viii. p. 4G7. t. 49. f. 1 (1777), under 

 P. oci'eatum. 



Ami!.\ca. — An erect or ascending, cinereous herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, 

 with pallid rosy flowers. By streams, between Puri-Cacarambola and 

 X-gombe, in company with Uor'qipa Nasturtium Beck ; Oct. 18.06, but 

 not then in good ti. No. 5361. 



PiNOo Amioncd.— A marsh herb: stems often elongated, a foot 

 long or more, simple, decumbent-ascending or almost floating, bearded 

 At the nodes with long root-like fibres ; flowers whitish-rosy. By 

 pools close to the banks of the river Luxillo, near the bridge, not 

 common ; fl. Jan. 1857. A .specimen, poorly represented in the British 

 Museum set, apparently of this species. Xo. 5360. 



See note under /'. lanigerum R. Br. 



Var. limnogenes. 



P. limno>jenes Yatke ex Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 202 (1892). 



Leaves scabrid. 



HciLL.v. — An erect herb, 2A to 4 ft. high; ochrciv ferruginous; 

 «pikes somewhat nodding ; flowers from whitish to slightly rosy. At 

 river banks near Humpata, in company with willows ; 11. and fr. April 

 18G0. No. 5362. 



This is probably the Pohjgonum with which grew the grass Panicum 

 Crus-paronis Nees, Welw. herb. no. 7490 ; post, ii. p. 173. 



3. RUMEX L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 100. 



1. R. abyssinica Jacq. Hort. Vimlob. iii. p. 48. t. 93 (177G) 

 {ahi/ssinicus). 



Pl'.nco ANDoNCio. — An erect, apparently perennial herb. 2 to 5 ft. 

 high • leaves deltoid or lance-shaped, herbaceous-green above, glau- 

 cescent beneath, the radical ones with long petioles. In rich liushy 

 pastures in deep valleys among the gigantic volcanic rocks of Pungo 

 Andongo : fl. and young fr. Dec. ]8,')lJ and Jan. 1857 ; also in rather 

 elevated rocky places by the streams of Catete and Cabondo in the 

 pra^sidium : fl. and young fr. Feb. and April 1857. No. 5356- 



Huii.h.v.— A branched herb, 2 to 4 ft. high. By streams ; fl. and fr. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 5357. By rivulets near Lopollo ; fr. Jan. 18G0. 

 Coll. Cakp. 878. 



This is the Pmupx mentioned by Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 

 p. 187 (18G1). 



4. BRUNNICHIA Banks : Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 103; 

 Dauuner in Engl.. Pot. Jahrb. xxvi. p. 347 (31 Jan. 1899). 



1. B. africana Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 61 (1869) ; 

 Oliv. iu Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. p. 21, t. 1328 (Feb. 1881); Dammer, 

 I.e., p. 357. 



GoLUNGt) Alto. — A slender, much-branched shrub, climbing high 



