324 XLV. ROSACEA, [Cliffbrtia 



Female flowers with a narrower calyx ; ovary superior ; style very 

 short ; stigma large, multifid-lacerated. Frequent along the bushy 

 banks of streams near Lopollo and in the more elevated parts of Morro 

 de Lopollo, in company with Salix, Faurea, Ruinex, and Ruhus huil- 

 lensis Welw. ; with male and female fl. and young fr. 13 and 14 April 

 I860. It flowers from December up to May. A form occurred with 

 the ovaries of the female fl. resembling berries being spongy-inflated 

 in consequence of the punctures of small insects {CurcuUo) ; with this 

 form must be compared Cliffortia baccans Harv., which may prove to 

 be only a state of C. UnearifoUa. No. 1277. 



XLVI. SAXIFRAGACEJ^]. 

 1. VAHLIA Thunb. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 637. 



1. V. capensis Thunb. Nov. Gen. PI. P. ii. p. 3G (1782); Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 384, n. 3 (1871). 



HuiLLA. — General appearance much resembling the yellow-flowered 

 narrow-leaved species of Sediun ; root rather thick and oblique or in 

 young plants straight and more slender, annual or apparently perennial 

 or persisting during 2 to 4 years, but occasionally the plant flowers in 

 its first year ; stems several, 3 to 6 in. high, ascending, rather viscid- 

 hairy or downy, much branched from the base ; branches densely 

 crowded, unequal, bearing flowers towards the apex of the approximate 

 erect leafy branchlets ; leaves rather fleshy, linear, uni-nerved ; pedicels 

 axillary, geminate ; tube of the calyx hairy, half as long as the gla- 

 brescent lobes ; petals yellow, as long as or longer than the calyx-lobes, 

 lanceolate, rather acute, tender, fugacious. Very abundant in sandy, 

 somewhat rocky secondary thickets, along the edges of forests between 

 Lopollo and Monino ; fl. and f r. Dec. 1 859, 7 Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 2375. 



Var. verbasciflora Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 384 (1871). 



V. verbasciflora Welw. (ex Oliv., I.e.) ; B. D. Jacks. Ind. Kew. ii. 

 p. 1164(1895). 



MossAMEDES. — An annual or perennial herb, erect or ascending at 

 the base, 1 to H ft. high, branched, somewhat viscid and more or less 

 pubescent ; leaves opposite, linear, fasciculate in the axils ; flowers 

 sessile or very shortly pedicellate, very large for the genus ; calyx-lobes 

 almost twice as long as the woolly or glandular-hairy tube ; petals 

 exceeding the calyx, obovate-round, shortly clawed, yellow, dark 

 purplish-red inside at the base, on the margin finely crenulate- 

 denticulate and not mucronate ; stamens and deep-yellow styles longer 

 than the petals. In sandy places along the banks of the river Bero, 

 at Mata dos Carpenteiros near Mossamedes ; fl. July 1859. No. 2374. 

 Sporadic, in rocky-sandy places at the banks of the river Maiongo, 

 between Mossamedes and Pedra del Rei ; fl. and fr. June 1860. 

 No. 23746. 



XLVII. CRASSULACEJL. 

 1. TILLiEA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 657. 

 1. T. pentandra Eoyle, Illustr. Bot. Himal. p. 222 (1839) (name 

 only), and ex Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 50 (1846) ; Britten 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 386. 



Crassula jjentandra Schonl. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. 2a, p. 37 (1890). C. tillcBoidea Edgew., I.e. 



