Parasial iaxxv. t;EXTiANE.K. 707 



free in the ripe capsule ; edges of thD carpels inflected and somewhat 

 cohering with the septum ; seeds quadrangular-prismatic, very deli- 

 cately papillose. In sandy moist places among low herbs, between 

 Lombe and Quibinda, in company with Fimhrlsfijl/.i e.rilis R. & S., 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. middle of March 1857. No. 1512. In similar 

 places at the river Cuanza, near ]\Iuta Lucala ; fl. and young fr. 

 March 1857. No. 1512?>. 



By some mistake this plant bears the Welwitsch no. 1524 in Herb. 

 Kew, and is so quoted by Baker, I.e. 



2. P. grandis. 



Belmontia grandis'E,. Mey. Comm. PI. Afr. Austr. p. 183 (1837). 

 Exochwmum yrande Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 55 (1845) ; Welw. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 49 (1869). 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb, 3 to 11, usually 3 to 5 in. high ; rhizome 

 parasitical, after the manner of Sfr/ija, adhering to the roots of 

 neighbouring plants by means of its short whitish fleshy very brittle 

 fasciculate fibres, chiefly affecting bulbous or tuberous Cyperaceas ; 

 stem erect, acutely tetragonal, bright green, filled with a very loose 

 pith, rather sparingly branched towards the apex; leaves lanceolate- 

 elliptical, semi-amplexicaul, herbaceous-green, obtusely keeled ; flowers 

 horizontally nodding, almost like Mimnlus ; calyx 5-cleft, the lobes 

 binged-keeled ; corolla hypogynous, somewhat salver-shaped, very 

 Wright sulphur in colour, sub-bilabiate, marcescent ; the tube but little 

 exceeding the calyx ; the lobes of the limb 5, ovate, very patent ; 

 stamens 5, inserted on the lower part of the corolla-tube, included, 

 equal ; filaments flattened at the insertion of the anthers, incurved- 

 thickened, longer than the anther-cells ; anthers oblong-linear, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally, with one gland at the apex and two glands 

 at the base, at first exceeding the stigma, at length adhering to the 

 enlarged stigma, forming a ring round the neck of the stigma and quasi- 

 epigynous by the rupture of the filaments ; the apical gland stalked, 

 ellipsoidal-spathulate, central ; the basal glands smaller, suborbicular. 

 shortly stalked, lateral ; ovary obovoid-elliptical, 2-celled, the edges of 

 the valves introflected, the cells many-ovuled ; style central, falling 

 short of the anther-tips or longer, firm, shorter than the thickly club- 

 shaped, rather compressed pubescent stigma which is broadly winged 

 on both sides ; capsule ovoid, turgid, 2-celled ; placenta at length 

 4-parted, tolerably large, spongy, at length free from the capsule : 

 seeds very numerous, minute, cinnamon-brown or tawny, subglobose, 

 angular, minutely scrobiculate or foveolate. Parasitical in spongy 

 and marshy densely herbaceous places on clumps of Cyperaceae, in 

 company with species of Drosera, Lohelia, Striga, SclerUi, Xyris, 

 Eriocauhii, etc., near LopoUo ; in the Monino meadows by the stream ; 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 18(50. No. 1516. In elevated spongy 

 places, on the roots of various Rubiace;«, in the Monino pastures; fl. and 

 fr. Feb. 18G0. A broad-leaved form. No. 1516&. 



3. P. primuliflora. 



Exochmnium primula'florum Welw., I.e., p. 47. Belmontia pri- 

 mulcejlora Schinz in Vierteljahrsschrift Nat. Gesellsch. Ziirich, 

 xxxvi. p. 332 (1891). 



HuiLLA. — An annual, little herb, 2 to 3 in. high, branched from the 

 base ; branches and branchlets subcorymbose ; radical leaves elliptical : 

 stem-leaves linear-lanceolate ; calyx but little winged, keeled-angular : 

 corolla deep-yellow ; the lobes of the limb 5 or rarely 4, broadly 



