378 Lviii. ONAGRACEiE. [EpUoMum 



contained in Coll. Carp. 1062, with the native name of " Maloa " 

 attached. Apparently with reference to a similar deposit, 

 Christian Smith in Tuckey, Congo, p. 301, speaks of the shore of 

 the river as overgi"own with a thick sod covered with a species 

 of Jussicea. An Isnardia and two species of Ejnlobium were found 

 in the district of Huilla, and another Isnardia in Mossamedes. 



1. EPILOBIUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 787. 



1. E. hirsutum, L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 347 (1753); Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. ii. p. 487. 



Huilla. — Stem 2J to 4 ft. high ; stigma 4-lobed, lobes broadly 

 oblong, rather thick, erect-patent. Along the bushy banks of streams 

 near Lopollo, in company with Typha (cf. Herb. No. 243), Polygonum 

 (of. Herb. No. 5363), Runipx (cf. Herb. No. 5357), Bubiis huillensis 

 (Welw. Herb. No. 1281), and Jaumea (Herb. No. 3965) ; fl. andfr. April 

 and May 1859. No. 4457. 



2. E. bengueUense, Welw. ms, in Herb. 



Glabrescent, shining, and apparently perennial ; stems annual, 

 2 to 3 ft. high, rooting at the very base, ascending below, erect 

 above, glabrous, sparingly branched, cylindrical, sub-fistulose, 

 leafy; leaves lineax'-lanceolate, narrowed towards both ends, 

 obtusely pointed at the apex, glabrous, spreading, glaucous -green, 

 minutely glandular-denticulate chiefly towards the apex on the 

 margin (glands red or purjDlish), alternate or the lower ones 

 opposite, 1 to 3 1 in. long by g to g in. broad, attenuate at the 

 base into a subglabrous broad obsoletely decurrent petiole of yV to 

 i in. ; nerves subpellucid ; inflorescence centripetal ; flowers 

 axillary, regular, at first whitish, at length rose-coloured ; peduncle 

 about ^ in. long, clothed with short curly hairs ; calyx-lobes lan- 

 ceolate, i in. long, puberulous outside, hooded-apiculate ; petals 

 oval, obtuse, cleft at the apex, ^ in. long, rose-coloured or palely 

 so, veined ; stamens all shorter than the petals ; anthers oblong ; 

 stigma undivided; capsule slender, 1| to 1^ in, long; together 

 with the peduncle 1| to 2| in. long; seeds unequally ovoid-oblong, 

 about TTj in. long, obtuse at the apex below the sordid comose 

 crown, bluntly and obhquely pointed at the base, glabrous not 

 shining nor tuberculate. 



Huilla. — In swampy thickets along the banks of the river Monino, 

 not abundant ; fl. and fi-. Feb. 1860. No. 4458. In marshy places 

 near the banks of the river Caculuvar along the road leading to 

 Quilengues : fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 4459. 



Nearly allied to E. stereojihyllum Fresen., of Abyssinia, but differs by 

 its leaves being more distinctly petiolate and attenuate at the base, etc. 



2. JUSSI^A L. ; Benth and Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 788. 



1. J. erecta L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 388 (1753) part, non L. PI. 

 Surin. n. 52 (1775); M. Micheh, Onagr. BresU, p. 15 (1874). 



J. altissima Perrottet ex DC. Prodr. iii. p. 55 (1828). J. 

 linifolia Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 489 ; non Vahl. 



LoANDA. — An erect herb ; stem 3 to 7 ft. high, of a blood-red or 



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