378 LYIII, ONAGRACER. [Epilobium 
contained in Cott. Carp. 1062, with the native name of “ Maléa” 
attached. Apparently with reference to a similar deposit, 
Christian Smith in Tuckey, Congo, p. 301, speaks of the shore of 
the river as overgrown with a thick sod covered with 4 species 
of Jussiwa. An Isnardia and two species of Epilobiwm were found 
in the district of Huilla, and another Jsnardia in Mossamedes. 
1, EPILOBIUM L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 787. 
1. E. hirsutum, L. Sp. Pl, edit. 1, p. 347 (1753); Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. ii. p. 487. 
Huitita.—Stem 23 to 4 ft. high; stigma 4-lobed, lobes broadly 
oblong, rather thick, erect-patent. Along the bushy banks of streams 
near Lopollo, in company with Typha (cf. Herb. No. 243), Polygonum 
(cf. Herb. No. 5363), Rumex (cf. Herb. No. 5357), Rubus huillensis 
(Welw. Herb. No. 1281), and Jaumea (Herb. No. 3965); fl. and fr. April 
and May 1859. No. 4457. 
2. E. benguellense, Welw. ms. in Herb. 
Glabrescent, shining, and apparently perennial ; stems annual, 
2 to 3 ft. high, rooting at the very base, ascending below, erect 
above, glabrous, sparingly branched, cylindrical, sub-fistulose, 
leafy; leaves linear-lanceolate, narrowed towards both ends, 
obtusely pointed at the apex, glabrous, spreading, glaucous-green, 
minutely glandular-denticulate chiefly towards the apex on the 
margin (glands red or purplish), alternate or the lower ones 
opposite, 1 to 34 in. long by 3 to 4 in. broad, attenuate at the 
base into a subglabrous broad obsoletely decurrent petiole of =}, to 
4 in.; nerves subpellucid; inflorescence centripetal; flowers 
axillary, regular, at first whitish, at length rose-coloured ; peduncle 
about 3 in. long, clothed with short curly hairs; calyx-lobes lan- 
ceolate, $ in. long, puberulous outside, hooded-apiculate; petals 
oval, obtuse, cleft at the apex, 4 in. long, rose-coloured or palely 
so, veined ; stamens all shorter than the petals ; anthers oblong ; 
stigma undivided ; capsule slender, 13 to 13 in. long ; together 
with the peduncle 13 to 24 in. long; seeds unequally ovoid-oblong, 
about 54; in. long, obtuse at the apex below the sordid comose 
crown, bluntly and obliquely pointed at the base, glabrous not 
shining nor tuberculate. 
Hvitia.—In swampy thickets along the banks of the river Monino, 
not abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 4458. In marshy places 
near the banks of the river Caculuvar along the road leading to 
Quilengues ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 4459. 
_, Nearly allied to £. stereophyllum Fresen., of Abyssinia, but differs by 
its leaves being more distinctly petiolate and attenuate at the base, ete. 
2, JUSSIHA L,; Benth and Hook. f. Gen. PL. i. p. 788. 
1. J, erecta L. Sp. Pl, edit. 1, p. 388 (1753) part, non T. Pl. 
Surin. n. 52 (1775); M. Micheli, Onagr. Brésil, p. 15 (1874). 
J. altissima Perrottet ex DO. Prodr. iii, p. 55 (1828). J. 
linifoha Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, p. 489; non Vahl. 
Loanpa.—An erect herb ; stem 3 to 7 ft. high, of a blood-red or 
