720 Lxxxvi. BORAGINE.E. [HeUotro2}iur,i 



wooded places not uncommonly 5 ft. high and almost shrubby, or in 

 poor hot stations only 1 to 2 ft. ; branches and branchlets patent ; 

 flowers lilac, scentless. Plentiful, especially about dwellings and in 

 the city of Loanda itself (in the Bungo quarter), flowering and 

 fruiting nearly throughout the year ; July 1858. No. 5459. 



Calumbo. — An annual, erect, branched herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 violet-coloured flowers. Between Camama and Calumbo ; fr. Aug. 

 1858. Coll. Carp. 758. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, sometimes a foot high, in other cases 

 3 or even 4 ft., luxuriating with comparatively gigantic leaves. In 

 hot, dry, and also in damp places, plentiful everywhere by streets, 

 houses, etc., flowering nearly the whole vear ; at Sange, March 1855. 

 No. 5460. 



Prince's Island. — On the sea-coast ; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 5464. 



9. H. longiflorum Hochst. k, Steud. in PI. Schimp. Arab. w. 842 

 {U. i., 1837), and ex Alph. DO. in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 555 (1845). 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers white. In sandy places at the banks of 

 the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5291. A suffrutescent, 

 patently branched, decumbent-erect herb, apparently annual : leaves 

 deep green, membranous, rather rough ; flowers white, in size and 

 shape like the Peruvian species, also sweetly redolent of Vanilla. In 

 reed-beds at the mouth of the river Giraiil, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1859. No. 5294. 



10. H. zeylanicum Lam. Encycl. Meth. iii. p. 94 (1789). 



H. gracile E. Br. in. Salt, Abyss, App. iv., p. Ixiii (1814). 

 H. micranthu7n Welw. Apontam. p. 591, n. 98 (1859). 



Ambriz.— At Ambriz ; in late fr. Nov. 1853. No. 5452. 



IC()LO E Bengo. — In moist places flooded in summer, near Foto : 

 in late fr. Sept. 1857. No. 5434. 



Luanda. — An erect, annual, herbaceous-green herb; flowers whitish; 

 calyx 5-partite to the base; corolla bulbous-urceolate; the limb 5-cleft; 

 the lobes subulate, spreading ; ovary 4-celled ; style terminal, com- 

 paratively elongated ; stigma urceolate-oblong, woolly-fimbriate at the 

 apex. By dried-up marshes near MutoUo and Cacuaco, rather rare ; 

 fl. and fr. April 1854. No. 6426. An annual, erect, deep green, 

 scopariously branched herb ; flowers whitish, turning rufous-dusky in 

 drying. In damp drying-up places after flooding, near Bemposta ; 

 fl. and fr. March 1858. No. 5424. A bright green, erect, annual 

 herb, a foot high ; leaves narrow ; spikes very slender, sub-erect ; 

 flowers very small, whitish. In grassy depressions flooded in summer, 

 between Penedo and Concei^ao ; fl. and fr. May 1858. No. 5425. 



MossAMEDEi?. — Erect, annual ; flowers yellow. In sandy places at 

 the banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5292. 



5. BORRAGINOIDES Boerh. ex Ludw. Defin. Gen. PI., edit. 

 Boehmer, p. 18, n. 58 (1760). 



Pollichia Medik. Bot. Beob. Jalir. 1783, p. 247 (1784); non 

 Schrank. Trichodesma Br. Prodr. p. 496 (1810) ; Benth. cl- Hook, 

 f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 845. 



1. B. zeylanica. 



Trichodesma zeylanicum Br., I.e. Pollichia, zeylanica, F. Muell. 

 Syst. Gens. p. 100 (1882). Boraginella zeylanica O. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. ii. p. 435 (1891). 



