Lindernki] lxxxix. fiCUornuLARiACE.t:. 763 



11. LINDERNIA Allioni in Misccll. Taurin. iii. p. 178, t. 5, 

 iig. 1 (176G). VaiKhllid V. Browne ex L. Mant. Fl. p. 12, n. 

 12G5 (1767) ; IJontli. c^- Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 955. 



1. L. nummulariaefolia Wettst. in. Engl, t Prantl, Nat. 

 PHanzenfam. iv. 36, p. 79 (1891). 



Vandellia nurnidarifuUa D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal, p. 86 (1825). 

 Pyxidaria nuinmulari folia 0. Kuntze, Fev. Gen. Fl. ii. p. 464. 



PuNGO Andongo.— An annual herblet, inhabiting marshes and 

 s^rowing after the manner of a Rorippa ; corolla pale blue variegated 

 with yellow ; the two anterior stamens exserted, sterile ? In pools by 

 the streams and springs of the presidium, near Cabondo and Catete : 

 H. and unripe fr. end of Dec. 1856. No. 5872. Flowers purple. In 

 oi)en rocky places among short grass ia the preesidium ; fl, and fr. 

 April 1857. No. 5373. 



Var. sessiliflora. 



Vmulellia sessiliflora Benth. fccrophular. Indie, p. 37 (1835). 

 Mitranthus laiifolius Tloch.st. in Flora xxvii. p. 103 (1844). 

 M. trijlora Hocbst. in Herb. Schirnp. Abyss, iii. n. 1728 {U.i., 

 1844); A. Eich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 120 (1851). L. sessiliflora 

 Wettst., I.e. Pyxidaria iiimimulari folia, var. O. Kuntze, I.e. 



PrxGO ANDOXfiO. — A dwarf, annual, erect herblet, sparingly 

 branched or simple ; leaves opposite, subsessile, as are also the purplish 

 flowers. In onen rocky moist parts of the praisidium, sparingly ; fl. 

 and fr. April] 8.57. No. 5878. 



2. L. diffusa Wettst., I.e., p. 80. 



Vandellia diffusa L. Mant. PI. p. 89 (1767). Pyxidaria diffusa 

 O. Knntze, I.e. 



Sierra Leone. — An annual, branched herb : branches prostrate, 

 rooting ; flowers milk-white. In damp muddy places by the road in 

 the ascent to the cataract of Sugar-Loaf mountain, above Freetown, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5924 



3. L. senegalensis. 



Vandellia senegalensis Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 416 (1846). 

 Pyxidaria senegalensis O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 465. 



Ambaca. — A herb, apparently perennial with a sub-tuberous root, 

 prostrate, creeping, with the habit of Gratiola ; flowers violet-red, 

 quickly withering. By pools near springs between Pamba and Puri- 

 Cacarambola, rather rare ; fl. and fr. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 5913. 



4. L. uvens Hiern, sp. nov. 



An annual herb, 2 to 4 in. liigb, nearly glabrous; stem erect, 

 simple or nearly so, tetragonal, minutely scabrid-puberulous, 

 slender, pale yellowish-green, leafy below, sparingly leafy above ; 

 leaves opposite or the uppermost floral ones alternate, ovate 

 oblong or lanceolate, obtuse at the apex or the floral ones sub- 

 acute, more or less broad at the sessile base, pale green, minutely 

 glandular-punctate and pulverulent-puberulous, -jV — g in. long, 

 minutely ciliolate on the entire margins ; flowers few, ] in. long, 

 terminal and in the upper axils ; peduncles very short, at their base 

 with an ovate subacute pallid concave adpressed floral leaf of 



