Jussuea] lviii. onagrace^. 381 



No. 4470. A prostrate annual herb ; stem purplish : leaves bright 

 green ; flowers deep yellow. Abundant in rice fields by the rivulet 

 Mic'ge near Caghuy ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1857. No. 4472. 



3. ISNARDIA L. Gen. PL, edit. 1, p. 337 {ijiit. anni 1737). 

 Liidirhjia L. Cor. Gen. p. 3 (Oct. 1737) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 

 PI. i. p. 788. 



1. I. palustris L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 120 (1753). 

 Isnardia (sp.) Wehv. in Journ. Linn. 8oc. v. p. 187 (1861). 

 Huii.LA. — At the banks of the Lopollo river : fr. Nov. 1859. 



No. 4480. 



2. I. prostrata O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 250 (1891). 

 Ludwigia j)rostrata Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 11 (1814) ; Oliv. Fl. 



Trop. Afr. ii. p. 491. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — An undershrub, G to 7 ft. high, very mucli 

 branched. At the banks of the river Quiapoze ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. 

 No. 4464. 



MosSAMEDES. — An annual herb, branched from the base ; stems 

 ascending ; flowers small, yellowish, tetrandrous. In saudy damp 

 herbaceous places at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, 

 rather rare ; fl. andfr. in winter, July 1859. No. 4479. 



Our specimens agree fairly with this species, except that in 

 No. 4464 the capsules range from j to Ih in. in length. 



LIX. SAMYDACE^. 

 1. HOMALIUM Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 800. 



1. H. stipulaceum Welw. ex Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 498. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An evergreen tree of 15 to 30 ft. in height, or 

 after the burning of the foi^sts a shrub of 3 to 5 ft., and even at that 

 size flowering ; distinguished by very large foliaceous stipules, 1 to 

 1:^ in. long by 1 in. broad, and by the margins of the lamina revolute 

 throughout ; fruit not seen. In the more elevated primitive forests 

 near Sange, at the springs of Capopa, also at the base of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. 18;")(). No. 2495. 



See Welw. Apont. p. 55G n. 126. 



2. H. africanum Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 35 (1859); 

 Masters, I.e., p. 497 ; Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 119 (1892). 



Island of St. Thomas. — Dec. 1860. Called "Quebra machado." 

 No. 6756. 



LX. TURNERACE^. 

 1. WORMSKIOLDIA Thonn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gon. PI. i. p. 807. 



1. W. lobata Urb. in Eiclil. k Garcke, Jalub.Bot. Berl. ii. p. 52 

 (1883); Gilg in Engl, ct Prantl, Nnt. Pflanzenfani. iii.G«, p.Gl(1893). 



W. heterophj/lla Welw. Apont. p. 555 sub n. 124 {Tricliceras 

 raphanoides), non Thonu. 



