636 Lxxvi. PRiMULACE^. [ArutgalUs- 



capsule circumsciss. In swampy pastures with short herbage along- 

 the banks of the Monino river, very plentiful, in company with species- 

 of Drosera, Gentianese, Pcejm lanthus Wahlhergii Korn. (Welw. herb, 

 n. 2456), Xyris, and Am>l€2)is ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859. No. 276. 

 In wooded swampy meadows at the banks of the Eme rivulet near 

 LopoUo ; fl. and fr. end of Dec. 1859. A small form. No. 2766. In 

 swamps along the Eme rivulet ; fl. Dec. 1859. A dwarf and narrow- 

 leaved form. No. 276c. A caespitose, very shining herb, 3 to 6 in. 

 high, perhaps annual ; flowers very numerous, rosy-red. In damp and 

 marshy pastures near the Monino ; fl. from Jan. to March ; fr. Coll. 

 Carp. 693. 



2, A. acuminata Welw. ex Schinz, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A dwarf, erect, annual herb ; stems rather fleshy, turning 

 red ; leaves strictly erect ; flowers whitish ; calyx-lobes acuminate- 

 subulate, rather fleshy ; corolla longer than the calyx, with acutely 

 acuminate lobes ; capsule turning red. In damp sandy wooded places, 

 from Morro de Lopollo towards Empalanca, at an elevation of about 

 5300 ft., rather sparingly ; fl. and fr. 13 April 1860. No. 275. This- 

 plant has much the habit of Centuncidus. 



3. A. pumila Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind, Occ. p. 40 (1788);. 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. p. 270 (1869). 



Ce7itunculus pentandrus Br. Prodr. p. 427 (1810). C.tenellus^ 

 Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. p. 72 (1844). 3ficropi/xis picmilaDuhj^ 

 I.e. ; Alph. DC. Geogr. Bot. p. 1035 (1855). 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual, marsh herblet, 3 to 5 in. high ; stem 

 filiform, reddish at the base, quadrangular ; leaves opposite, ovate, 

 sessile, thinly rather fleshy, lepidote-papillose ; calyx deeply 5-partite, 

 green ; corolla white, rather fleshy, but little or scarcely longer than 

 the calyx, very deeply 5-partite ; the segments almost separate, ovate ; 

 stamens 5, equal in length to the corolla-segments and opposite to 

 them ; filaments filiform, at the base dilated-bearded, almost connate 

 into a cylinder ; anthers ovoid, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing, 

 yellowish ; ovary globose, received at the base on a waxy orange- 

 coloured disk-like mass, marked with a circular horizontal line, 1-celled : 

 placenta globose, basilar, many-seeded ; style filiform, equalling the 

 stamens ; stigma rather obtuse ; capsule circumsciss. In a wooded 

 wet shortly grassy meadow, in masses but seen only in one spot, in 

 company with Drosera and hoetcs, near Sansamanda on the left bank 

 of the river Cuanza, fl. 22 Feb. 1857. No. 273. In marshy meadows 

 between Condo and Quisonde ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 273^. 



HriLLA. — A slender annual erect herb, a digit high ; stem angular, 

 mostly purple ; branches and leaves alternate ; flowers white ; calyx 

 5-partite ; the segments ovate, acuminate ; corolla a little longer than 

 the calyx, urceolate ; the tube globose, clothed around inside at the 

 base with a scarlet viscid material of a glandular nature ; the limb 

 5-cleft, with ovate-lanceolate acuminate lobes ; stamens 5, included ; 

 filaments not bearded at the base ; ovary globose ; style straight, 

 simple, stigma peltate. In meadows or damp pastures, in the elevated 

 parts of Morro de Monino, plentiful, about 6300 ft. of altitude, in 

 company with species of [Ttricukiria, Xijris, Ascolepis, etc. ; fr. and few 

 fl. beginning of April 18G0. No. 274. 



The habit is much like that of Ce/itwiculus, and the characters 

 scarcely differ. 



