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io stems prostrately spreading up to 15 ft. in length, reddish- 
green. In grass-grown open thickets of the ‘Mumua’ trees on 
red clayey soil along the River Cutato ; the coe = much liked 
by cattle.” In fruit May 6th. The fruit is a deep red-brown 
capsule about 1:5 cm. in diameter, ppliiting Lengthwin, and con- 
taining four large shina brown seeds mm. long. 
No. 4267: tems several sir i trailing on the ground; 
calyx dusky violet-purple; corolla lurid yellow outside, dest 
inside, with brilliant violet-purple throat. Common in sunny 
situation at Umbanda agg ig Caconda,”’ March hie The sovics 
are 35 cm. peat nd 3 cm. in diameter at the mo 
Merr tellata, sp.nov. Herba humilis ee ae Ae 
caule e Tinie perenne, annuo erecto ; foliis breviter petiolatis 
palmatisectis, segmentis lineari- lanceolatis ; floribus solitariis longe 
pedicellatis ; sepalis coriaceis ellipticis ; corolla infundibuliforme, 
2 cm. longa. 
Hab. South-east Angola: in open woods at Kului, Gossweiler, 
no. 2906, Februa: 
A unique specimen, with a slender stem 2 dm. long, densely 
pubescent, as are the short mse branches, with stellate hairs 
which occur more Sper on the backs, rarely on the upper face, 
of the leaves, and on the lower part of the ora Leat- -stalks 
slightly. wi wavy. Flow wer's rilney on slender en Me which eek 
4 cm. long; br tenes minute, lanceolate; sepals glabrous, except 
cream-white, glabrous, midpetaline areas not sharply limited ; 
stamens about 1 cm. long, anthers twisted; pollen, style, an 
stigma of the gen 
A very distinct apenas perhaps most nearly allied to two other 
Angolan species, M. pds tent Hall. f. and M. multisecta Hall. f., 
which it resembles in the size of ss flower, but distinguished 
from these by its habit and leaf-characters, and from all previously 
described species of the genus by the shathihenialid stellate pube- 
sence, in which it recalls the genus Astroc 
MMATOPHYLLA A. Rich. var. ANGUSTIFOLIA Oliver. 
at Fo 
3400 ft. elevation. The corolla is described as “light purple with 
me centre.” The seeds differ from those of the species 
pubescence—and resemble in this the sonia “sanllat seeds of . 
the sloselyalliad Australian gee ss oe rophylla Br. 
I. asperrroniA Hallier f., hitherto known only from the 
specimens collected by Welwitsch in Huilla (no. he has been 
sent by Mr. weiler from Cubango, where it grows plenti- 
fully in herb-grown thickets about the Fort Princeza Amelia 
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