366 LIV. MELASTOMACEA. [Dissotis 
Var. Vogelii Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 450 ; Cogn., de. 
- ~Heteropteris Vogelit Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 352. 
Sterra Leone.—An ascending perennial herb, 1 to 1} ft, high, 
branched from the base ; leaves coriaceous, rather rigid, beneath turn- 
ing yellowish in the dry state ; flowers prettily rose-purple ; calyx- 
lobes and petals tipped with fasciculate sete ; capsule valvate ; valves 
tipped with fasciculate sete ; seeds cochleate, delicately and densely 
tuberculate or punctulate. On grassy mountain declivities near 
Freetown, not uncommon ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 896. 
2. D. gracilis Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 366 (1891). 
Huitia.—In elevated, marshy, somewhat spongy, wooded meadows, 
in Morro de Monino, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. May 1860. No. 921. 
3. D. lanceolata Cogn. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 366 (1891). 
Punco Anponco.—Perennial, erect, favoured with deep rose-purple 
flowers. In moist mountain-pastures amongst grass and short bushes 
at the banks of the river Luxillo, abundant and fragrant ; fl. May 
1857. No. 910. A perennial herb, 2 feet high, with thick spongy 
rootstock, numerous stems, and fragrant, very prettily rose-coloured 
flowers. In moist meadows along the banks of the river Cuanza, very 
abundant; fl. and fr. April 30, 1857. No. 9100. In swampy thickets 
near Condo; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 910c. In moist sandy 
thickets near Quisonde ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 910d. 
4. D. debilis Triana in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. p. 58, t. iv. 
f. 44a (1871); Cogniaux in DC. Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 367 (1891). 
Osbeckia debilis Sond. in Linnea, xxiii, p, 47 (1850), non Naud. 
Huitia.—In rough exposed thickets, with sparing herbage, near 
Mumpulla ; not well developed, fl. Oct. 1859. No. 918. A little herb ; 
rootstock woody ; stems czspitose, ascending, 3 to 6 in. high, more or 
less purplish ; flowers handsome, of a deep-rose colour, arranged in 
terminal heads. In the more elevated grassy hilly situations, especially 
along the banks of streams, near Lopollo, abundant; fl. and fr. 
beginning of December 1859. No. 919. 
5. D, levis Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 451 (Sept. 1871). 
Uelastoma decumbens P. Beauv. Fl. Ow. i. p. 69, t. 41 (1806), 
Osbeckia decumbens DC. Prodr. iii. p. 143 (1828).  Heterotes 
levis Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 348 (1849). D. decumbens 
Triana in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxviii. p. 58 (Dec. 1871); Cogniaux 
in DC, Monogr. Phan. vii. p. 368 (1891). 
GoLuNnGco ALTO.—An ascending, prettily green herb, almost scandent, 
2 to 3 ft. high ; petals rosy, very fugacious. In moist bushy places 
from Calolo to Sange also in palm groves of Raphia near Canguera- 
sange, nowhere abundant ; fl. and fr. Sept. and Nov. 1854; also at 
the ferruginous spring near Bango, fr. April 1856. No. 899. A herb 
of 2 to 3 ft., with rose-coloured flowers. In the forest at the sides of 
the Quiapose, in Sobato de Bumba ; fr. 22 Oct. 1855. Cox. Carp. 572. 
at " plumosa Hook, f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 452 (Sept. 
Osbeckia rotundifolia Sm. in Rees, Cycl. xxv. n. 4 (1813). Mela- 
stoma plumosa D, Don in Mem. Werner. Soc. iv. (Part 2) p. 291 
(1823). Heterotis plumosa Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. p. 348 (1849). 
