374 LVII, LYTHRACES, [Ammannia 
Ampaca.—In wet places by the banks-of the river Pamba, near 
N-gombo, a unique specimen in fr. without leaves Oct. 1856. No. 2372. 
Punco ANDONGO.—In wet meadows near Lombe, towards Muta- 
Lucala, a young specimen without fl. or fr. beginning of March 1857. 
No. 2369. 
2. A. baccifera L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 120 (1753) (Amannia) ; 
Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 478. 
A. attenuata Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. ii. n. 778; A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 278 (1847); Koehne in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. i. p. 257 (1880). 
Punco Anponco.—Abundant in sandy places flooded in summer, 
from Candumba to Lombe along the banks of the river Cuanza ; fl. and 
fr. March 1857. No. 2356. 
MossaMEDES.—In swamps by the river Bero, near Mossamedes ; fl. 
and fr. July 1859. No. 2357. Coz. Carp. 579 (part). In swamps 
by the shore of the river Bero, not far from its mouth, in excessively 
wet sand almost surging under foot ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 28570. 
This Linnean species occurs also in Nile Land, and is widely spread 
over tropical and subtropical Asia and Australia. The form, however, 
represented by the name A. attenuata, ax emended by Koehne, is of 
much more limited distribution ; and to this form Dr. Welwitsch’s 
specimens belong. 
3. A. salicifolia Monti in Comment. Instit. Bonon. v. pars i. 
p. 112, cum tab. (1767); Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, 478. 
A. baccifera Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. i. p. 258 (1880), et 
subsp. egyptiaca Koehne, i.c., p. 260, and in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 
Ital. xvi. p. 101 (1884). 
Punco ANDONGO.—In marshy places with dense herbage near 
Quitage by the river Cuije, not abundant; fl. and fr. March 1857. 
No. 2362. In a sandy spot with short herbage at the bank of the river 
Lombe not far from its confluence with the river Cuanza; only one 
little specimen seen, 3 in. high; fl. March 1857. No. 2371. Along 
streams within the fortress of Pungo Andongo, sporadic ; fl. and fr. 
April 1857. No. 2349. By marshes near Sansamanda by the river 
Cuanza, in company with Aponogeton leptostachys E. Mey (Welw. Herb. 
No. 301) ; fi. and fr. May 1857. No. 2363. 
MossaMepzs.—Flowers reddish. In sandy and muddy places along 
the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, sporadic ; fl. and fr. July 
1859. No. 2364. Co. Carp. 579 (part). 
3. NESHA Commers. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 779. 
1. N. loandensis Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. iii. p. 325 (1882). 
Anmannia loandensis Welw. ex Hiernin Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 480. 
Loanpa.—A quite glabrous, deep-green, annual herb ; stems several 
from the crown of the rootstock, prostrate, quadrangular, of a deep 
bloodred-purple colour ; branches opposite, very numerous, ascending ; 
leaves opposite, lanceolate, or oval-oblong, 4 to nearly 1 in. long, } in. 
broad in the middle, attenuate at the base into a very short petiole, 
deep-green, subglaucescent beneath, very delicately serrulate on the 
margin ; flowers tetramerous, crowded in little axillary cymes ; common 
peduncle almost obsolete ; pedicels very slender, unequal, the longer 
