■632 Lxxiii. CAMPANULACE^. [Cervicina 



In Apontam. p. 548 under n. 8G, Welwitsch reports a species of 

 Wahlenbergia from the highlands of Angola proper ; this is apparently 

 the plant collected in Ambaca in the middle of Oct. 1856 in a moist 

 pasture on the left bank of the river Lucala near Ponte de Lucala, 

 No. 1138 ; it is a unique specimen, represented in the British Museum 

 only by a drawing. It is impossible to identify the species ; Welwitsch 

 subsequently placed it in Lobelia. 



LXXIY. ERICACE^. 



1. AGAUEIA Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 586. 



1. A. salicifoUa Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 483. 

 Yar. pyrifolia Oliv., I.e. 



Andromeda pyrifolia Pers. Syn. PI. i. p. 481 (1805). LeucotJwe 

 salicifoUa, var. pyrifolia DC. Prodr. vii. p. 603 (1829). 



HuiLLA. — A small tree of 8 to 10 ft., with spare head and rambling 

 •branches. In damp forests behind the Monino river, very rare ; fr., 

 after the fall of the corolla and seeds, Feb. 1860. No. 4807. 



The absence of flowers renders the determination somewhat doubtful ; 

 the infructescence is apparently terminal. 



2. FICALHOA Hiern in Journ. Bot. xxxvi. p. 329, t. 390 

 <1 Sept. 1898). 



Calyx free, hemispherical, persistent, 5-partite ; the segments 

 broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, somewhat imbricate in 

 estivation, quincuncial, nearly unchanged in fruit ; corolla short, 

 not much exceeding the calyx, sub-urceolate, tardily deciduous, 

 deeply 5-lobed ; the lobes broadly oval, rounded at the apex, 

 altei-nating with the calyx-segments, erect below, somewhat 

 spreading at the apex, imbricate, quincuncial; stamens 15, uni- 

 seriate, free, included, glabrous, inserted on the interior of the 

 corolla near the top of its short tube, arranged in 5 groups of 3 

 stamens each, the groups alternating with the corolla -lobes and 

 having the filaments contiguous at the base; filaments rather 

 fleshy, erect, about half as long as the corolla-lobes, tapering from 

 A broader base ; anthers short, emarginate at both ends, 2-celled, 

 basifixed, at length dehiscing by oblique apical pores ; disk incon- 

 spicuous, annular or nearly obsolete; ovary 5-celled, sub-hemi- 

 spherical, obtusely pentagonal, rather fleshy, pilose, with a central 

 depression at the apex ; style short, central, glabrous ; the stigma 

 ^labi-ous, at first ovoid-capitate and very short, at length as long 

 as the ovary and splitting into 5 diverging branches ; ovules 

 numerous in each cell, very small, inserted on fleshy ascending 

 placentas attached to the axis of the ovary below its middle ; 

 capsule hemispherical, 5-valved, locuLicidal ; the septa hardening, 

 opposite to the persistent calyx-segments ; seeds several, small, 

 irregularly ovoid, somewhat compressed ; testa of an open reticular 

 structure ; albumen rather thin ; embryo rather thick, terete, 

 a,bout two-thirds as long as the seed, straight. 



A tree, with alternate serrulate laurel-like simple leaves, and 

 axillary or lateral densely paniculate hermaphrodite flowers. 



