Ficalhoa] lxxiv. ekicace^. G33 



Nearly related to Agauria, it differs from it by the shorter 

 figure of its corolla, the grouping of its more numerous stamens, 

 the toothing of its foliage, etc. 



The name is given in honour of Count Ficalho, professor of 

 -botany at the Polytechnic School of Lisbon, a friend and fellow- 

 worker on African plants. 



1. F. laurifolia Hiern, I.e. 



An evergreen tree, 15 to 20 ft. high or less; trunk attaining 

 •8 in. in diameter ; branches glabrous, terete, spreading, rambling ; 

 branchlets leafy, rather slender, at length nodding ; leaves ex- 

 stipulate, narrowly oval- or ovate-oblong, acuminate towards the 

 apex, obtuse at the base, subcoriaceous, rather glossy, deep green 

 and glabrous or in part minutely glandular-scaly above, paler 

 ■and sparingly pilose chiefly along the midrib and also minutely 

 glandular-scaly beneath, obtusely serrulate on the subcartilaginous 

 margin, 2 to 5 in. long by \ to li in. broad ; the midrib con- 

 spicuous, the lateral veins inconspicuous ; petiole usually glabrous, 

 i to i in. long ; flowers g- to i in. long, white, regular or nearly so, 

 on short or very short puberulous or pilose rather thick pedicels, 

 arranged in lateral or axillary contracted panicles of {' to 1] in. 

 in diameter ; bracts oval or broadly ovate, obtuse, usually ciliolate, 

 about as large as or smaller than the calyx-segments ; calyx usually 

 bracteolate at the base ; bracteoles half as long as the calyx ; 

 •calyx-segments ciliolate, about i in. long ; corolla about i in. 

 long, glabrous ; the filaments sometimes bent at the apex ; style 

 (including the stigmatic branches) at length -^ in. long ; ovary 

 ■densely and shortly pilose ; capsule about i in. in diameter, about 

 equalling the adpressed calyx. Occasionally the pistil is hexa- 

 merous. Seeds rather pale, about -^^ in. long ; embryo whitish, 

 about g?jj in. long. 



HuiLLA.— In moist forests at the Lopollo cataracts in Morro de 

 Lopollo, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 4808. In thin forests 

 between Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4809. A 

 small tree, with a sparse, lax head. In the more elevated parts of 

 Morro de Monino. at the banks of streams ; without fl. end of March 

 .1860. Perhaps a hirsute form of this plant. No. 4810. 



3. PHILIPPIA Klotzsch ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 591. 



1. P. benguelensis Welw. ex Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 328 (1892), 

 :and ex Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, iv. p. 24 (1894) 

 (/''. benguellensis). 



Salaxis benguelensis Engl., I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub of 4 to 7 ft. with numerous stems from the base 

 -and the habit quite that of an Eriai or a C^q)res8us, or occasionally in 

 ithe form of a small tree, much branched ; leaves 4-verticilIate, rather 

 thick, pubescent, in the living state intensely green ; petiole broad ; 

 iflowers purplish, axillary near the apex of the branchlets ; peduncles 

 and calyces thinly hispidulous-pubescent ; calyx more or less regularly 

 4-dentate ; one of the teeth elongated, more compact and rigid, erect 

 •or a little incurved ; corolla globose, 4-lobed, rather rigidly membranous; 

 •the lobes very obtuse, delicately but plainly denticulate about the 



