Jussica| LVIII, ONAGRACEA. 381 
No. 4470. A prostrate annual herb; stem purplish ; leaves bright 
green ; flowers deep yellow. Abundant in rice fields by the rivulet 
Miége near Caghuy ; fl. and fr. end of Feb. 1857. No. 4472. 
3. ISNARDIA L. Gen. Pl., edit. 1, p. 337 (init. anni 1737). 
Ludwigia L. Cor. Gen. p. 3 (Oct. 1737); Benth. & Hook. Gen. 
Pl. i. p. 788. 
1. I. palustris L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 120 (1753). 
Isnardia (sp.) Welw. in Journ. Linn, Soc. v. p: 187 (1861). 
Huiiia.—At the banks of the Lopollo river; fr. Nov. 1859. 
No. 4480. 
2. I. prostrata O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. p. 250 (1891). 
Ludwigia prostrata Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 11 (1814); Oliv. FI. 
Trop. Afr. ii. p. 491. 
GoLtuneo Atto.—An undershrub, 6 to 7 ft. high, very much 
branched, At the banks of the river Quiapoze ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1854. 
No. 4464. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual herb, branched from the base ; stems 
ascending ; flowers small, yellowish, tetrandrous, In sandy damp 
herbaceous places at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, 
rather rare ; fl. and fr. in winter, July 1859. No. 4479. 
Our specimens agree fairly with this species, except that in 
No. 4464 the capsules range from 2 to 14 in. in length. 
LIX. SAMYDACEZ. 
1, HOMALIUM Jacq. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 800. 
1. H. stipulaceum Welw. ex Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 498. 
GoLunGco ALTO.—An evergreen tree of 15 to 30 ft. in height, or 
after the burning of the forests a shrub of 3 to 5 ft., and even at that 
size flowering ; distinguished by very large foliaceous stipules, 1 to 
1} in. long by 1 in. broad, and by the margins of the lamina revolute 
throughout ; fruit not seen. In the more elevated primitive forests 
near Sange, at the springs of Capopa, also at the base of Serra de Alto 
Queta, not uncommon ; fl. Jan. 1856. No. 2495. 
See Welw. Apont. p. 556 n. 126. 
2. H. africanum Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iv. p. 35 (1859); 
Masters, /.c., p. 497 ; Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. p. 119 (1892). 
IsLtanp oF St. THomas.—Dec. 1860. Called “‘Quebra machado.” 
No. 6756. 
LX. TURNERACEA. 
1. WORMSKIOLDIA Thonn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 807. 
1. W. lobata Urb. in Hichl. & Garcke, Jahrb. Bot. Berl. ii. p. 52 
(1883); Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 6a, p.61(1893). 
W. heterophylla Welw. Apont. p. 555 sub n. 124 (Zrichceras 
raphanoides), non Thonn. 
