34 XI. viOLACEiE. [CJalceolaria 



pany with Rubiacea?, Filices, and some genera of Artocarpeae, the 

 underwood of the primitive forests. Welwitsch found in the 

 very dry year of 1857 several species which he had previously 

 seen with flower-buds in the month of October 1856 in the same 

 condition during the succeeding months until May. As several 

 species of Alsodeia have very elastic branches, which even after 

 being dried preserve their green colour, they are employed by the 

 negroes as snares for birds and small quadrupeds of the forest, 

 and are known by the name of " Tesse " or " Quitesse " ; such 

 species are R. Auaqxiria, R. hrachypetala, and R. dentata : see 

 Welw. Apont. p. 555, n. 123. The wood of R. Aucuparia is 

 very firm almost throughout, and of a white-yellowish colour ; 

 it is held in much esteem for small domestic utensils, handles of 

 hammers, etc. 



1. CALCEOLARIA Loefling, Iter, p. 113 (1758), non Feuill. (1766). 

 lonidium Yent. (1803) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 117. 



1. C. enneasperma 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 41 (1891). 

 lonidium enneaspermum Vent. Jard. Malm. p. 27 back (1803); 



DO. Prodr. i. p. 309 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 105. 



Loan DA. — In maritime sands at Penedo, April 1854, and in hilly, 

 bushy, tall-grassy places near Boa Vista, fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 880. 

 In dampish sandy-earthy meadows of the island Cazanga, near Cabo 

 Lombo, fl. and fr. May 1854. No. 881. At the clayey margins of dry 

 pools near Musegue do Luis Gomes, June 1854 (only one specimen). 

 No. 881 &. An annual or sometimes a biennial herb ; root thinly woody ; 

 stem much branched from the base ; branches somewhat pilose ; corolla 

 spurred ; petals white from the base to the middle, above towards the 

 apex bluish violet, spur presenting a concavity rather than a tube ; not 

 uncommon in shortly grassy dampish pastures, also in rather dry groves 

 of Adansionia, near Imbondeiro dos Lobos, fl. and fr. March 1858. 

 No. 879. In sandy groves of Adansonia amongst a sparse herbage, 

 near Quicuje, fl. and fr. Nov. 1857. No. 8796. Represa de Quiciixe, in 

 moist as well as in dry situations ; fr. May 1854. Coll. Carp. 213. 



2. RINOREA Aubl. Hist. PI. Guian. i. p. 235, t. 93 (1775). 

 Alsodeia Thouars (1807) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 118. 



1. R. ardisiaeflora 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 42 (1891). 



Alsodeia ardisiceflora Wehv. ex Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. i. p. 108. 



PuxGo Andongo. — A slender bush of 8 ft., with a densely leafy 

 crown; trunk straight; flowers whitish-yellowish, soon turning yellow; 

 three sepals equal, two a little longer, all obtuse, rounded at the apex, 

 ciliate ; petals 6, all equal, lanceolate, sessile, broad at the base, quite 

 reflexed from the middle at the time of flowering, rather obtuse, 

 ciliolate ; stamens 5, combined at the base into a thick ring which is 

 densely bearded outside at the mouth, terminated by an ovate-lanceolate 

 straight erect rather rigid appendix which far exceeds the anther-cells ; 

 ovary sessile, 1-celled ; placentas 3 ; style straight, moderately thickened 

 towards the apex and thus quasi-clubshaped ; stigma terminal. At 

 the borders of the primitive forests of Mata de Pungo, within the 

 fortress ; fl. Jan., young fr. April 1857. No. 885. 



