Adicea\ cxvi. urticace.e. 991 



on the upper part of the stem and on the lower face of the upper 

 leaves ; stems simple or but little braneht-d ; leaves scarcely 

 whorled in fours at the top of the plant, opposite, ovate, obtusely 

 narrowed at the sub-apiculate apex, very obtusely narrowed at 

 the trinerved base, membranous, the upper pairs dentate and 

 ranging up to an inch long by H in. broad, the lower paii-s entire 

 and ranging up to -I in. long by i; in. broad ; lateral veins few, 

 weak ; cystoliths linear ; petioles ranging to i; in. long, slender ; 

 lower internodes long, the uj^per ones short ; indorescence short, 

 axillary ; flowers clustered. 



PuNGM ANnoNGu. — In moist shady rocky parts of Barranros da 

 Pedra Songue in the pnesidium ; fl. Feb. and May 1857. No. 6258. 



The two following Nos. perhaps belong here : — 

 PuNGo Andongo. — On the shady rocks of Pedras de Guinga ; fl. 

 Jan. 1857. Branched, 3 to 5 in. high. No. 6259. A branched, 

 apparently annual herb, about a foot high ; in fl. No. 6272. 



" N-sasi " or " N-sagi," plural " Jinsasi," and " Cachinde quiansagi '' 

 or " Caxinde iansasi " are native names of a species of this genus. 



2. A. Mooreana Ifiern, sp. n. 



A weak, .slender, erect or ascending annual herl), 4 to 12 in. 

 high ; stem simple, pallid, glabrate and naked below, above 

 leafy and furnished with sparse spreading narrowly subulate 

 whitish seise ; leaves opposite, deltoid-ovate, acuminate at the 

 apex, very obtuse or sub-truncate and often emarginate at 

 the trinerved base, membranous, herbaceous -green above, sub- 

 glaucous-green beneath, not conspicuously hairy but with the 

 hairs thinly scattered or chiefly on the ribs and veins, coarsely 

 dentate except the base, 1^ to 2 in. long by 1 to 1^ in. broad, 

 the radical ones about 3 in. long and broad ; lateral veins two 

 or three on each side of the midrib in addition to the basal 

 nerves, slender ; teetli sub-deltoid, |- to !; in. long, apiculate : 

 cystoliths on the blade punctiform ; petiole rather slender, I- to 

 1 in. long, glabrous, maiked with oblong or sublinear cystoliths, 

 that of the radical leaves about 3 in. long and sparingly setose ; 

 stipules lanceolate or oval-oblong, acute or caudate-acuminate, 

 concave, somewhat hairy on the back, glabrous inside, ciliolate, 

 J( in. long ; flowers dioecious, the female ones very small, with 

 an unequally trifid green perianth, without staminodes, few- 

 er several together, sessile, in small pedunculate clusters ; 

 common peduncle ^ to f in, long, solitary in the axils of the 

 middle or lower leaves of the stem, glabrous, marked with 

 sublinear cystoliths ; capsule compressed, obliquely oval or 

 ovate-rotund, pallid, -}^ in. long, scrobiculate, marked at or 

 near the apex with the short obliquely placed style and at 

 the base with the free small persistent obli(|ue i)erianth. 



Pu.NGO Andongo. — In fr. No. 6276. In Mata de Pungo ; without 

 fl.orfr. Jan. 1B57. No. 6256. 



This species is named in honour of my friend ISIr. Spencer Le 

 ;Marchant ]\Ioore, F.L.S., who in the Journal of Botany for 1880 

 elaborated Welwitsch's Acanthaceie. 



