382 LX. TURNERACEE. [Wormskioldia. 
Gotunco AuLTo.—In exposed sunny places, on a clay soil, covered 
with short grass, near Cambondo, rather frequently : fl. and fr. 30 Jan. 
and Feb. 1855. No. 2493 (in part). 
CazENGO.—In open places among short herbage, on the left bank of 
the river Luinha, along the base of Serra de Muxaula, at an elevation 
of 2000 ft., occasionally ; fl. and fr. 10 June 1855. No. 2493 (in part). 
Cott. Carp. 591. An erect annual herb with yellow flowers. In 
rather dry hilly places by the river Luinha; fl. and fr. Dec, 1854. 
Couu. Carp. 590. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—In sandy pastures among low bushes, in places 
flooded in the rainy season, near Candumba ; also between Caghuy and 
Sansamanda, frequently; fl. and fr. Dec. 1856 and March 1857. No. 2494. 
LXI. PASSIFLOREA. 
This natural order in Angola does not exhibit the brilliancy and 
beauty of the flowers of the American species, but rather resembles 
the Cucurbitacez (Bryonia), and is chiefly represented by the genus 
Adenia; one of them, A. lobata Engl., furnishes an edible fruit 
and also supplies an anthelmintic decoction. Most of the species 
are erect herbs or tall shrubs. A species of Ophiocaulon bears 
fruits as large as a pigeon’s egg, which are eaten raw or used for 
making lemonade. Welwitsch was convinced that the genera or 
subgenera found in the interior of Natal, such as Tryphostemma, 
etc., are also to be found in the interior of Mossamedes. 
1, BASANANTHE Peyr. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 812; 
Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 27. 
1, B. nummularia Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 28, tab. 9 (1869); 
Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 509. 
Tryphostemma nummulariwm Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. p. 388(1892). 
Hvitta.—An erect herbaceous perennial plant, 3 to 5 in. high, 
remarkably resembling some violets ; corolla white, pentamerous, with 
acorona. In rather moist sandy thickets about Lopollo; fl. and fr. 
Jan. and Feb. 1860, between 5200 and 5600 ft. alt., im company with 
Triumfetta geoides Welw. No. 871. 
2. B. littoralis Peyritsch in Moh] & Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. xvii. 
(1859) p. 101 ; Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 28 (Kéoralis); Masters, dc. 
Tryphostemma littorale Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xiv. p. 388 (1891). 
BrEnGuELLA.—An undershrub or perennial herb, 2 ft. high; branches 
numerous, decumbent at the base, ascending, slender, somewhat woody; 
leaves lanceolate-linear ; calyx green; petals white, very tender, 
spreading in a star, fugacious, not abundant. In sandy maritime 
thickets between the city of Benguella and the river Catumbella, 
especially near the right bank of the stream (then dried up) Cavado 
or Maribondo ; fl. and young fr. middle of June 1859. No. 872. 
Engler in his Bot. Jahrb. xiv. p. 388 (1891), and Harms in Engl. & 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 6a, pp. 80, 81 (1893), treat Basananthe 
as a section of Tryphostemma Harv.; the former genus, however, dates 
from 18 March 1859, while the latter was not published before the 
latter part of the same year. 
