558 Lxxi. COMPOSIT/E. [Pluchea 



by women, ia the form of a decoction, for procuring abortion. The 

 branchlets were given to Welwitsch by Freiro. No. 3924. 



PuNiiO AxDoNCo. — A shrub as tall as a man or an undershrub ; 

 flowers lilac. In damp places near Salinas de Dungo in Sobato Canhaco, 

 amid tall grasses ; fl. and fr. March 1 857. " Quitoco." No. 3925. 



MosSAMEDEs. — An aromatic shrub or usually only an undershrub ; 

 flowers purple. In thickets along the banks of the river Bengo, rather 

 rare ; fl. and fr. July and August 1859. No. 3922. A shrub, 5 ft. 

 high, with purplish flowers. In moist thickets at the river Maiombo ; 

 fl. and fr. June 18(30. A kind of Quitoco. No. 3923. 



The name Quitoco is used in Brazil for another species of the genus, 

 namely, P. Qiiitoc DC. ; in Angola it is used also for Placus lacerus 

 0. Kuntze. See Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 208 (1884). 



24. EPALTES Cass. ; Beiith. & Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. p. 293. 



1. E. brasiliensis DC. Prodr. v. p. 461 (1836); O. & H. in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 331. 



Ethulia brasiliensis Link, Enum. Herb. Berol. ii. p. 310 (1822). 

 Erigerodes hi'asiliense 0. Kuntze, Ptev. Gen. PI. i. p. 335 (1891). 

 Prince's Island.— Mountainous region ; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 3520. 



2. E. garipina Steetz in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. (ii.), p. 451 

 (1863); O. & H., I.e., p. 332 (gariepina) ; Ficalho, PL Uteis, 

 p. 209 (1884). 



Ethulia? gariepina DC, I.e., p. 13. Erigerodes gariepinum 

 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



MossAMEDES. — An undershrub, becoming in old age very woody and 

 almost a little shrub, 1 to 2j ft. high ; stem with numerous straight 

 branches decurrent-winged, both as well as the foliage scattered with 

 small branny scales ; flowers of a bright violet colour ; aroma of the 

 whole plant very agreeable as in some species of Placus. In sandy 

 and rocky places flooded in summer, in company with Ebenacefe (Eiicleu 

 pseudebewis E. Mey. ; Herb. No. 2544), behind the town along the 

 banks of the river Bero, in Prata de Carpenteiro, not uncommon ; fl. 

 July 1859. " Carqueja Bernardini." No. 3521. A perennial herb ; 

 stems numerous, nearly erect, 2 ft. high, corymbosely branched ; 

 flowers rosy- violet. At Boca do Rio Bero ; fl. and fr. June 1800. 

 Coll. Cap.p. 97. 



25. SPH^RANTHUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 294. 



1. S. hirtus Willd. Sp. PL iii. p. 2395 (1800) ; 0. & PI. in Oliv. 

 Fl, Trop. Afr. iii. p. 334 ; non Gaertn. 



S.senegalensis DO. Prodr. v. p. 370 (1836). 



Barra do Bex(;o and Loanda. — An annual prostrate herb, with 

 ascending branchlets and rosy flowers ; in clayey and sandy places 

 flooded in summer near Imbondeiro dos Lobos, not uncommon ; fl. and 

 fr. June and July 1853. An annual fragrant herb, sometimes scarcely 

 2 in. high, in other cases nearly 2 ft., growing in dense masses ; leaves 

 scarcely properly termed lanceolate but rather ovate-spathulate, 

 agreeing in other respects with the description of S. senegalensis DC. ; 

 capitula violet-rosy, elegant ; in wooded places (with Adansonia 

 digitata B. Juss.) flooded in the rainy season between Teba and 

 Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and May 1854. In muddy places 



