Faroa] lxxxv. gentiane.e. 711 



(Welw. herb. no. 1901), and an Jmllr/ofcra ; fi. Oct. LSa'.) to Jan. 1800 ; 

 fr. Feb. and March IHOO. No. 1523 and Coll. Caki-. 74. 



This (and perhaps also the two species of Chironia) is probably the 

 plant referred to by Welwitsch, Synopse P]xplic. p. 55, n. 144, under 

 the Portuguese name of " Fel da terra de flor roxa." 



5. HIPPION Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. p. 589 (1825), majore parte; 

 F. W. Sclimidt in Eiim. Archiv. Bot. i. p. 9 (1796), mimmd parte. 



Enicostema Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ind. Bat. p. 848 (182G); Benth. 

 ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 807. 



1. H. verticillatum F. W. Schmidt in Eom., I.e., i. p. 11; 

 tSpreng., I.e. ; 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. p. 428 (1891) {Uippiouum v.). 



Gentiana verticillata L. Sy.st. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 952 (1759). 

 Ericoila vertieillata Borckh. in Rom., I.e., i. p. 27. Enicostema 

 ■littorals Blume, I.e., Eiiieostenima verticillutuni Engl, ex Gilg in 

 Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 67 (Feb. 1895). 



Benguella. — A herb or undershrub, | to \h ft. high ; rhizome 

 more or less creeping, descending very deeply, perennial, yellow- 

 whitish ; stem erect, glaucous-green, rather fleshy throughout, simple 

 or sparingly branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, elongated, 3-nerved, 

 amplexicaul, opposite, decussate ; flowers white, turning yellow in 

 •drying, subsessile, clustered in the axils, 1- or 2-bracteolate, the 

 bracteoles linear-lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, erect- 

 spreading : calyx .")- (or occasionally 2- or 3-) lobed ; the lobes erect, 

 membranous on the margins ; corolla tubular, 5-cleft, rather fleshy, 

 persistent, funnel-shaped ; the lobes erect-spreading, contorted in 

 aestivation, ovate, rather blunt, somewhat arched and involute at the 

 apex, rather rigid ; stamens 5, sub-exserted, inserted below the middle 

 of the corolla-tube ; filaments dilated in an arched manner at the 

 base, without intervening teeth, the margin of the arch wavy : anthers 

 oblong, hastate, shortly bilobed at the base, attached at the sinus, 

 ■erect, 2-celled ; the connective produced at the apex into a thin 

 apiculus : ovary obovoid, unilocular ; ovules very numerous, inserted 

 at the sutures ; style cylindrical, firm, straight, reaching the middle 

 of the anthers ; stigma thick, capitate, closely surrounded by the 

 anthers ; capsule ovoid or obovoid-oblong, co%'ered with the marcescent 

 corolla, unilocular ; placentas sutural ; seeds numerous, comparatively 

 not very small, chestnut-rufous, inserted on the placentas by means 

 of flattened funicles. In sandy-muddy, sparingly herbaceous places, 

 flooded in winter, by the ocean to the south of the city of Benguella, 

 in company with Mollugo hirta Thunb. and Cressa creticfi L. (Welw. 

 herb. no. G138), not uncommon ; fl. and fr. end of June 1859. 

 No. 1517. 



MossAMEDEs. — A suffrutescent herb, with yellow root and white 

 flowers. In brackish beds of rushes near the mouth of the river Bero, 

 near Mossamedes, plentiful ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1518. 



6. SWERTIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 816. 



Sweertia Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ., edit. 2, p. 558 (1844). 



1. S. stellarioides Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 225 (1884). 



Adenopogon stellariokles Welw. Synopse Explic. p. 27, n. 59 

 (1862). ,S'. Wehmtschii Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 339 (1892); 

 Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. p. 110 (1898). 



