.Schvenhia] lxxxviii. solanace^. 755 



in manioc plantations, near Aguas Doces ; fl. and fr. June IS'if). 

 No. 5901. A herb with the habit of Lnhclin or Cepludostiqtnn. By 

 roadsides near Sange among low bushes ; fl. and fr. S'o. 5902. 

 Between Trombeta and Caboudo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. Xo. 5903- 



LXXXrX. SniOPHULATUACE.K. 



1. APTOSIMUM Biirch. ; Benth. & l£ook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 927. 



1. A. lineare :\Iarl. & Engl, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. 250 (1888). 

 Mosi^AMEDES. — A low undershrub, scarcely 9 in. high, very densely 



cffispitose, forming clumps 1 to 2 ft. in diameter after the manner of 

 the spiny species of Astr<tn((lns, with the petioles .sjiiny after the fall 

 of the leaf-blades, hard ; liowers sublabiate, blue ; style simple, with 

 a capitellate-truncate stigma ; fruit woody, bivalved, bilocular, the 

 ralves bifid at the ape.x;, the cells many-seeded, the seeds black and 

 scrobiculate. In sandy-stony places on a red-sand rock at the base 

 of Serra de Montes Negros, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 10 Aug. 1859. 

 No. 5817. In the mountainous rocky parts of Caldeira do Inferno, 

 damaged by sheep ; fr. June 18(J0. No. 5818 



2. A. decumbens Schinz in Yerh. Bot. Brand, xxxi. 184(1890). 

 Bum 1:0. — In neglected fields after cultivation of Arachis hypogcta, 



plentiful ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 5804. 



HuiLLA. — In pastures flooded in the rainy season, near Lopollo 

 towards Empalanca ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. A less hairy form. 

 No. 5803. 



3. A. Welwitschii lliern, sp. n. 



An undershrub, branched from the base ; branche.s decumbent 

 or ascending, 4 to 12 in. long, leafy and densely pubescent above 

 with pale subf ulvous gland-tipped spreading hairs, more or less 

 leafless sub-glabrate and scattered with dusky specks below, spiny 

 chiefly below ; spines |- to 1 in. long, straight ; leaves linear- 

 oblanceolate, pointed at the apex, much attenuate to the sessile 

 or subsessile base, subscabrid, closely beset with short rather stiff 

 gland-tipped hairs, entire and narrowly revolute on the cartila- 

 ginous margins, 1 to 1 ^ in. long by Jg- to \ in. broad ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, subsessile ; bracts i to \ in. long, linear, hairy ; 

 calyx \ to \ in. long, deeply lobed ; the lobes linear, hairy outside, 

 glabrous inside ; corolla | to ^ in. long, membranous veiny, 

 glandular-hairy outside ; the tube about 1 in. in diameter, much 

 narrowing towards the base ; filaments of the fertile stamens 

 islender, glabrous, i in. long ; fertile anthers 2, unilocular, some- 

 what hispid or ciliate, yV by ^^ in. ; style nearly i in. long ; 

 capsule \ in. long, shortly hairy outside ; young seeds papillose. 



M(^ssAMKDES. — In gravelly places by the river Maiombo at a place 

 called A Maiombo ; in late fl. June 18tJ0. No. 5816. 



This should be compared with .1. iireiitiriuiK Engl., I.e., and A. 

 scahcrrhuum Schinz, I.e., p. 185, the types of neither of which have I 

 seen ; from the former it differs by the size and other characters of 

 the foliage, and from the latter by its less scabrid scarcely acute leaves. 



