376 LVII, LYTHRACEE, [Nescea 
5. N. radicans Guillem. & Perrott. Fl. Senegamb. (i.) p. 306 
t. 70 (1833); Hiern, lc., p. 474; Koehne, l.c., p. 330. 
Mossamepes.—A slender decumbent herb of 2 to 4 ft. ; leaves grass- 
green ; flowers rosy ; petals 2, or rarely 3 or 4. In one spongy place 
only, amidst sedges and reeds near the mouth of the river Giraul, in 
company with Equisetum ramosissimum Desf., and Marsilea diffusa 
Leprieur, var. 8 cornuta Baker; fl. 18 July 1859. No. 2830. In 
a clayey-sandy moist place near the river Bero, between the mouth of 
this river and that of the river Giraul ; only one specimen seen ; fi. 
not yet fully open at the end of winter, August 1859. No. 2381. 
6. N. floribunda Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 517 
(1862); Hiern, Zc, p. 474; Koehne, Le. p. 331. 
MossaMEDES.—In a sandy place with scanty herbage near the banks 
of the river Bero (or Rio das Mortes) ; only one plant seen ; fl. at the 
end of winter, August 1859. No. 2329. 
7, N. erecta Guillem. & Perrott. Fl. Senegamb. (i.) p. 305, t. 69 
(1833) ; Hiern, l.c., p. 474; Koehne, lc, p. 331. 
MossaMEDES.—In sandy places with scanty herbage, near the banks 
of the river Bengo, Mata dos Carpenteiros ; very few specimens seen ; 
fl. 21 Sept. 1859. No. 2328. 
8. N. cordata Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. p. 475; Oliv. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 74, t. 40 B (1873); Koehne, dc., p, 332, 
NV. erecta Thoms. in Speke, Journ., App. p. 634 (1863), non 
Guillem. & Perrott. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—A remarkably elegant, annual, much branched 
herb ; habit nearly that of Melastomacez; branches and branchlets 
opposite, gradually shortening towards the apex of the stems ; leaves 
rather rough ; flowers small, rosy, clustered, surrounded at the base by 
a cymbiform involucre. In marshy pastures and flooded spongy places, 
in company with minute species of Eriocaulon and Campanulaceze, 
between Quisonde and Condo, very abundant; fl. and fr. March and 
beginning of April 1857. No. 2327. In spongy places near Lombe in 
the neighbourhood of the river Cuanza ; not yet fi. beginning of March 
1857. No. 23275. Near Muta Lucala; fl. and fr. March 1857. A 
narrow-leaved form. No. 2327c. An annual herb, 3 in. high, corym- 
bosely branched, with a Melastomaceous habit. In marshy places near 
Lombe ; fl. and fr. Co. Carp. 585. 
9. N. linifolia Welw. ex Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 472; 
Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. iii. p. 335 (1882). 
Huitia.—A slender undershrub, 6 in. high; rootstock woody, 
branched ; stems several ; leaves alternate, very rarely the lower ones 
opposite ; peduncles axillary, elongated, 1- to 3-flowered ; pedicels 
bracteolate ; flowers rose-red, fine ; calyx shortly campanulate, at length 
membranous, usually 8- or rarely 7- or 6-lobed ; lobes deltoid, acute, 
erect, equal ; cornua obsolete, represented by thickened folds in the 
sinuses between the calyx-lobes ; petals 8 or 7, obovate, spathulate, 
shortly clawed, three times as long as the calyx, rosy, corrugated, 
fugacious, adnate to the inner side of the sinuses ; stamens 16 or 14, 
inserted above the base of the calyx-tube ; filaments elongated, filiform; 
anthers curved ; ovary sessile ; style elongated ; stigma truncate, capi- 
tate ; capsule ribbed, 1-celled, dehiscing from the middle to the apex 
