77iesium] cxiv. santalace.e. 937 



HuiLivA. — In thickets and hilly hot places near Lojiollo. Rparingly. 

 fl. 2 Dec, 1H59 ; also in wootled meadows near Catuinba, not plentiful, 

 fl. and fr. Jan. 18G(». No. 6436. 



3. T. andongense Jliern, sp. n. 



A hard, annual, viigately much branched, nearly glabrous 

 herb, 3 to 4 ft. high or more ; .stem marked with narrow 

 foliaceous wings below, at the base furnished with 2 opposite 

 linear leaves, leafless above ; flowers about j',-, in. long, from 

 greenish to yellowish, very shortly pedicellate, arranged in slender 

 si)icate racemes; pedicels with 3 small bracteoles at the base; 

 free poi'tion of the perianth campanulate, 5-cleft, about ^',. in. 

 long, marcescent, not bearded inside, the lobes ovate-dfltoid ; 

 stamens 5, inserted at the base of the perianth-lobes and opposite 

 to them; filaments flattened, .scarcely bearded; anthers oblong, 

 included ; ovary almost wholly inferior ; style included, exceeding 

 the stamens, filiform ; .stigma capitellate ; fruit including the 

 marcescent perianth about ' in. long, ~^.r in. in transverse diameter, 

 hard, greenish, ribbed, between the ribs transversely obliquely 

 and thickly veiny, 2-seeded. 



Plngo Andonco. — In thin bushy sandy rocky forests, not far from 

 the river Cuanza, near ^Mopopo ; fl. and fr. 22 Feb., 1857. No. 6434. 



4. T. equisetoides Welw. ms, in herb. 



A minutely puberulous, nearly glabrescent, wiry herb ; root- 

 stock thick, wuody, polycephalous ; stems prostrate, whip-like, 

 In-anched, with the habit of an Eqv.iseturn, slender ; branches 

 alternate, angular ; leaves comparatively few, subulate, acute, 

 sessile, somewhat decurrent, opposite or alternate, ttV to y'^ in. 

 long ; flowers terminal, bracteate at the base, solitary, yV to -^ in. 

 long, greenish ; free portion of the perianth persistent, about 

 -j^ to y\ in. long, shortly cylindrical, deeply 5-lobed ; the 

 segments lanceolate, not bearded inside, obtuse, the tips and 

 sides narrowly inflected ; anthers shortly oblong, includeel ; style 

 included, exceeding the stamens ; bracts subulate, tjV to yV in. 

 long ; lower portion of the fruit y'jj in. long by yV in. in diameter, 

 ribbed, the ribs jointed with oblique venation. 



PiNco Am)()N(;(i. — In sandv wooded places near Cazella on the 

 left bank of the river Catete ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 6433. 



5. T. lopollense Hiem, sp. n. 



A ilwarf , ol)suletely puberulous, spreading shrublet, 2 to 8 in. 

 high, much branched from the base ; rootstock rather thick, 

 woody, perennial ; branches slender, wiry, angular, leafy at least 

 upwards, the more spreading ones ascending towards the apex ; 

 leaves alternate, lanceolate-subulate or subulate, acute at the 

 apex, rather thick, the sides curved inwards below, broad&<t 

 sessile and decurrent at the base, y^jy to I in. long ; flowers sub- 

 sessile, terminating the branches and the upper short or very 

 short lateral shoots, each solitary, together forming terminal 

 leafy naiTow panicles or more or less secund spicate racemes, 

 about \ in. long ; the very short pedicels rather fleshy, with 4 or 



