718 Lxxxvi. BORAGINE.E. [IMiotropium 



schcenoides Host (herb. no. 2022), near San Joao de Caroca ; fl. 2 Sept. 

 1859. No. 5287. 



2. H. anchusanthum Hiern, sp. n. 



A silky -tomentose canescent herb, perennial or at least lasting- 

 for several years ; rhizome somewhat woody ; stems several, oblique 

 or ascending, divaricately branched, somewhat wiry ; leaves 

 alternate, oval or ovate, obtuse at the apex, often but not 

 always wedge-shaped at the base into the petiole, rather thickly 

 hei'baceous, entire or sxibrepand on the margin, ^ to 1 ^ in. long 

 by i to ^ m. broad ; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, not 

 conspicuous ; petioles ranging up to f in. long ; scorpioid spikes 

 axillary and sub-terminal, ranging up to 3^ in. long; flowers 

 large for the genus, subsessile, centripetal, i to | in. long, 

 contiguous ; calyx i to 4 in. long, oblong, mostly pentamerous, 

 hairy on both faces, densely so outside, the partitions lanceolate- 

 oblong, erect, connivent or cohering far up in flower, less so in 

 fruit, subobtuse or scarcely acute ; corolla pale yellow, cylindrical, 

 shortly exceeding the calyx ; the tube slightly tapering upwards, 

 pilose above on both faces ; the limb short, glabrous, plicate in 

 bud ; the folds 5, sinistrorsely convolute as seen from above ; the 

 lobes shallow, broad, rounded above ; anthers 5, lanceolate, 

 glabrous, about ^yV in. long, subsessile, inserted below the middle 

 of the corolla-tube ; pistil y\ (in flower) in. long, glabrous ; style 

 dilated at the apex into a depressed conical tip or stigma ; nutlets 

 (in one case) 3 with a fourth abortive one, obliquely ovoid, ^^ to 

 jV in. long. 



MossAMEDES. — In rocky maritime places near Praia da Amelia, 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. beginning of July 1859. No. 5296. On the 

 sandy heights of Porto de Pinda ; fl. and fr. 31 August 1859. No. 

 5295. Between Cabo Negro and Mossamedes, with luxuriant herbage ; 

 fl. 3 Sept. 1859. No. 5297. 



This must be compared with JEZ. OUcerlanum Schinz in Verb. Bot. 

 Brandenb. xxx. p. 268 (1888), a species from the neighbourhood of 

 Walfisch Bay, the type of which I have not seen. 



3. H. curassavicum L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 130 (1753). 

 Mossamedes. — A perennial, suffrutescent, widely caespitose herb ; 



stems prostrate, as well as the leaves glaucous-green fleshy and rather 

 rigid ; flowers white, the corolla-limb more or less variegated with 

 purple and somewhat undulate. In muddy-sandy places about 

 brackish marshes near Aguadas, abundant ; fl. and fr. July 1859. 

 No. 5293. Succulent. At Aguadas ; fl. July 1859. No. 5435Z'. 



4. H. undulatum Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 13 (1790); J. A. 

 Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 225 (1852). 



Cape de Vekde Islands. — In sandy places on St. Vincent Island ; 

 fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 5467. 



5. H. ovalifolium Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. 38 (1775). 



H. Coromandelianum Retz, Fasc. Obs. Bot. ii. p. 9 (1781). 

 H. cinereum R. Br. in Salt, Abyss., App. iv., p. Ixiii. (1814). 



Barka do Bexgo. — By dried-up marshes and by the river Bengo 

 near Santo Antonio, at Panda ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. No. 5443. 



