Carpolobla] xiv. polygalace^. 49 



white, two petals spotted with violet at the apex ; stamens constantly 

 5, all fertile, without trace of any staminodes ; filaments combined at 

 the base into a tube cleft in front, free from the middle upwards ; 

 anthers basifixed ; ovary conical, subcompressed, somewhat obliquely 

 seated on the large spongy disk or gynophore, gradually acuminate at 

 the apex into the curved somewhat compressed style, terminating in 

 the thinly capitate stigma, mostly 3-celled, sometimes by abortion 

 2-celled, very rarely 1 -celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; ovule pendulous, turgid, 

 more or less ellipsoidal ; fruit tenaciously fleshy, bright scarlet or of 

 a deep orange colour, baccate, ovoid-trigonous or clavate-oblong and 

 trigynous, as large as a hazel-nut, mucronate at the apex, subpendu- 

 lous, edible. In palm-groves and in primitive forests, throughout the 

 district, especially near N-dela (Undelle) and at the spring of Capopa ; 

 also at the banks of the river Delami^oa and along the public road 

 from Trombeta to Cambondo ; abundant ; fl. and fr. June to Oct. and 

 Dec. to Feb. 1855-56. No. 996. A shrub of SJ ft. with erect-patent 

 branchlets. In woods near Trombeta, sporadic. A form with narrow 

 and very acute leaves, without either fl. or fr., Sept. 1857. No. 997- 

 A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; flowers white ; fruit broadly ovoid, tri- 

 gonous, fleshy, orange-red, sweet, edible, 3-seeded. Fruit, near the 

 river Delamboa, June and end of July 1856. Coll. Carp. 232. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub. 5 to 6 ft. high, with long sparse branches, 

 thinly coriaceous leaves, and whitish-rose flowers. In wooded situa- 

 tions, in Barrancos da Pedra Songue, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. 

 Dec. 1856. No. 1004. 



XV. FRANKENIACE^. 

 1. FRANKENIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 141. 

 1 . F. ericifolia Chr. Smith in Buch, Allgem. Uebers. Fl, Canar. 

 p. 30 (1819); var. a, microphylla Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap Verd. 

 Ins. p. 271 (1852). 



Cape de Verde Islands. — Frequent on sandy volcanic hills behind 

 Villa de Mindello, near Porto Grande, in St. Vincent Island, fl. Sept. 

 1853. No. 1094. Near Villa de Mindello, Porto Grande, in stony-sandy 

 dry places, at the sea-shore ; abundant ; fl. Jan. 1861. No. 1095. 



XVI. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



The Clove Pink {Dianthus Caryo-phyllus L.) is commonly culti- 

 vated in Angola, but the flowers very rarely come to even tolerable 

 perfection. 



1. SILENE L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 147. 



1. S. Burchellii Otth. in DC. Prodr. i. p. 374 (1824); Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 139. 



HuiLLA. — Ferrao da Sola and around Lopollo, occasional in potato- 

 fields ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 1082. 



2. STELLARIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 149. 

 1. S. Mannii Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 183 (1864); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 141. 



St. Thomas' Island. — Stems ranging up to 2 ft. in length, rooting 

 at each node. Gregarious in the more elevated mossy spots in the 

 forests of Monte Caffe, in company with Peperomia Fernamlopofinn 

 CDC, and with species of Hepaticae ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1860. No. 1085. 



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