366 LIV. MELASTOMACEiE. 



Var. Vogelii Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 450 ; Cogn., I.e. 

 ■ -^Heterojyteris Vogelii Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 352. 



Sierra Leone. — An ascending perennial herb, 1 to Ig- ft. high, 

 branched from the base ; leaves coriaceous, rather rigid, beneath turn- 

 ing yellowish in the dry state ; flowers prettily rose-purple ; calyx- 

 lobes and petals tipped with fasciculate setiB ; capsule valvate ; valves 

 tipped with fasciculate setae ; seeds cochleate, delicately and densely 

 tuberculate or punctulate. On grassy mountain declivities near 

 Freetown, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 896. 



2. D. gracilis Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 366 (1891). 

 HuiLLA. — In elevated, marshy, somewhat spongy, wooded meadows, 



in Morro de Monino, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. May 1860. No. 921. 



3. D. lanceolata Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 366 (1891). 

 PuNGO Andongo. — Perennial, erect, favoured with deep rose-purple 



flowers. In moist mountain-pastures amongst grass and short bushes 

 at the banks of the river Luxillo, abundant and fragrant ; fl. May 

 1857. No. 910. A perennial herb, 2 feet high, with thick spongy 

 rootstock, numerous stems, and fragrant, very prettily rose-coloured 

 flowers. In moist meadows along the banks of the river Cuanza, very 

 abundant ; fl. and fr. April 30, 1857. No. 910&. In swampy thickets 

 near Condo ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 910c. In moist sandy 

 thickets near Quisonde ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 910c?. 



4. D. debilis Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. p. 58, t. iv. 

 f. 44a (1871); Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 367 (1891). 



Osheckia debilis Sond. in Linnsea, xxiii. p. 47 (1850), non Naud. 



HuiLLA. — In rough exposed thickets, with sparing herbage, near 

 Mumpulla ; not well developed, fl. Oct. 1859. No. 918. A little herb ; 

 rootstock woody ; stems csespitose, ascending, 3 to 6 in. high, more or 

 less purplish ; flowers handsome, of a deep-rose colour, arranged in 

 terminal heads. In the more elevated grassy hilly situations, especially 

 along the banks of streams, near Lopollo, abundant ; fl. and f r. 

 beginning of December 1859. No. 919. 



5. D. lEBvis Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 451 (Sept. 1871). 

 Melastoma decumhens P. Beauv. Fl. Ow. i. p. 69, t. 41 (1806). 



Osheckia decumbens DC. Prodr. iii. p. 143 (1828). Heterotis 

 loivis Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 348 (1849). D. decumbens 

 Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. p. 58 (Dec. 1871) ; Cogniaux 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 368 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An ascending, prettily green herb, almost scandent, 

 2 to 3 ft. high ; petals rosy, very fugacious. In moist bushy places 

 from Calolo to Sange also in palm groves of RaiMa near Canguera- 

 sange, nowhere abundant ; fl. and fr. Sept. and Nov. 1854 ; also at 

 the ferruginous spring near Bango, fr. April 1856. No. 899. A herb 

 of 2 to 3 ft., with rose-coloured flowers. In the forest at the sides of 

 the Quiapose, in Sobato de Bumba ; fr. 22 Oct. 1855. Coll. Carp. 572. 



6. D. plumosa Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 452 (Sept. 

 1871). 



Osbeckia rotundifolia Sm. in Pees, Cycl. xxv. n. 4 (1813). Mela- 

 stoma plumosa D. Don in Mem. Werner. Soc. iv. (Part 2) p. 291 

 (1823). Heterotis plumosa Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 348 (1849). 



