3lelasma] lxxxix. scropiiulariace.*:. 769 



Mosi^AMEOEs. — A herb, about a foot high, parasitical on the roots 

 of other plants ; rhizome orange-fibrillose ; stem simple, erect, purple ; 

 spike of flowers about 8 in. long ; l)racts and calyces herbaceous-green ; 

 corolla like yellow wine in colour, marked with purple nerves. In 

 bushy places at the banks of the river Bero ; fl. middle of July 1859. 

 No. 5811. 



HuiLi.A.— Plant about 10 in. high, twice branched, apparently 

 parasitical, with the habit of an OrobaMcI/f ; branches erect or nearly 

 so. In bushy fields neglected after cultivation, near Mumpulla ; 

 fl. and fr. Oct." 185;). No. 5800- 



Both of these Nos. are represented by poor specimens, and the 

 determinations are doubtful. 



6. M. atrosanguineum Hiern, sp. n. 



Am annual, parasitical, terrestrial lierb, about 7 in. high, root 

 orange or atrosanguineous in colour ; stem branched, glabrate 

 and orange soon turning atrosanguineous in colour at the base, 

 puberulous above ; branches erect-patent ; leaves few, small, 

 almost bractiform, rather fleshy, atrosanguineous ; flowers sessile, 

 arranged in spikes terminating the stem and branches ; spikes 

 about 2 in. long, dense above, interrupted below, pedunculate, 

 erect ; bracts hispidulous, the lower ones oval sessile and about 

 i to ^ in. long, the upper ones sublinear ; calyx broadly cam- 

 panulate, hispidulous outside, eiliolate, nearly glabrous inside, 

 lO-nerved, atrosanguineous, shortly 5-cleft, about i in. long; the 

 teeth broadly ovate-triangular, apiculate ; corolla sub-rotate, quite 

 naked inside, scarcely exceeding the calyx, orange in colovir ; the 

 tube short; limb 5-lobed ; the lobes obtuse, somewhat spreading 

 in open flower, nerved outside ; stamens 4, without any rudiment 

 of a fifth, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, subequal, all 

 fertile ; anthers dorsifixed, almost horseshoe-shaped, 2 -celled ; 

 filaments glabrous or (according to Welwitsch) pilose, not densely 

 bearded ; ovary green, globose, glabrous, 2-celled ; ovules numerous 

 in the cells ; style firm ; stigma long, curved, obtuse. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In secondary thickets between Sansamanda and 

 Caghuy, very sparingly ; fl. 1 May 1857. No. 5853. 



The following No. possibly belongs here : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect herb, a foot and a half high, purplish 

 throughout, apparently parasitical, simple, puberulous ; leaves almost 

 scale-like, lanceolate, dentate, scattered, J to | in. long ; flowers spicate 

 in bud. In bushy meadows at the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; 

 one specimen in young fl.-bud April 1857. No. 5890. 



7. M. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



A parasitical herb, in form and mode of growth like an 

 Orohanche ; rhizome very thick, dusky outside, fleshy and yellowish 

 inside ; stems scape-like, scaly, nearly glabrous, leafless, numerous, 

 simple or sparingly branched ; 4 to 7 in. high, cylindrical, orange- 

 purple at the base, purple-dusky towards the spike of flowers ; 

 scales small, ovate or oval, obtuse ; calyx subequally 5-cleft, 

 dusky- purple, about J- in. long; the lobes obtuse, ciliate ; corolla 

 orange in colour ; segments of the limb 5, spathulate, somewhat 

 concave at the apex, longitudinally striate outside with prominent 



