444 Lxix. RUBiACE^. [Olcleiilcmdia 



2-celled ; cells: many-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma obsolete, flattened- 

 bilobed ; capsule obovoid, sub-didymous, crowned with the persistent 

 limb of the calyx, dehiscing loculicidally with a transverse chink 

 within the limits of the calyx-limb ; seeds very numerous, angular, 

 dark bx'own or obscurely orange-coloured. Among crops or plantations 

 of Manihot litiliss/ma, especially on a sandy soil ; fr. and almost past 

 fl. end of Dec. 1856. No. 3066. 



MossAMEDES. — An annual herb, scarcely a foot high, branched from 

 the base, glaucescent : flowers white ; corolla-tube long ; limb quadrifid, 

 milk-white. In sandy places at the river Bero, abundant ; fl. and fr. 

 June 1869. No. 3067. 



Perhaps not distinct from 0. aspera DC, to which 0. strumosa 

 Hiern, I.e., p. 58, has been referred. 



11. 0. subverticillata K. Schum., I.e., p. 419. 



HuiLLA. — An annual, erect herb, 1 to 3 ft. high, virgately branched : 

 stipules 2- to 4-setose ; flowers sub-opposite, distantly spicate ; corolla 

 salver-shaped, of a lurid-violet colour ; limb long, tetragonal, 

 widened below the limb on account of the included anthers ; lobes of 

 the limb 4, ovate-elliptical, muticous. Among crops, especially of 

 Phaseolus and Zea Mnya, also at roadsides, in sandy places, abundant ; 

 fl. and fr. 27 March 1860. No. 5321. 



To this species, which is perhaps not distinct from 0. papillosa 

 K. Schum., apparently belongs the following No. : — 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — An annual, erect, slender, branched herb, 1 to 2 

 feet high ; flowers from whitish to yellowish. Among low bushes 

 between Mutollo and Candumba ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 3040- 



12. 0. caiFra Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. PL Afr. p. 360 (1837); 

 Hiern., I.e., p. 58. 



Ambeiz.^A herb, perhaps perennial ; rootstock thick, becoming 

 woody : stems much branched ; leaves linear ; stipules subalate-laciniate. 

 In rocky places by the river Ongo, Margueriti Mossul ; fl. and fr. Nov. 

 1853. No. 3037. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A slender, annual or perhaps biennial herb, with 

 whitish flowers verging towards a violet tinge. In sandy thickets 

 between Cazella and the river Lutete ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3036. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers small, white. In rocky places among short bushes, 

 near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. Flowers white, with the tube a 

 little reddish. In pastures flooded in the rainy season ; fl. and fr. end 

 of Jan. 18G0. A perennial, casspitose, erect herb ; stems filiform ; 

 leaves linear ; stipules pauci-setose ; corolla white-violet or purple, its 

 tube long, ventricose below the limb ; lobes elliptical. In moist meadows 

 along the river of Lopollo, abundant ; fl. and fr. 27 and 28 March, 1860. 

 No. 3038. 



13. 0. herbacea Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 11 (1814). 



Hedyotis herbaeeah., Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 102 (1753). H. Heijnii 

 Br. in Wall. List, n. 867. 0. Heynei Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. p. 187 

 (1856); Hiern, ?.c., p. 59. 



GoLUNG<,) Alto. — A very graceful, bright-green, annual herb, with 

 very small white flowers, representing in the tropics the genus Galhan 

 of the temperate zone. By the Ambaca road, near Canaulo ; abundant, 

 but in few places ; fl. and fr. beginning of April 1856. At the borders 

 of thickets between Ponte de Luiz Simoes and Camilungo, one specimen; 

 fl. and fr. April 1855. No. 3055. 



