Oldentandia] LXIX, RUBIACER. 447 
Huiiia.—In elevated dried-up swamps, in Morro de Monino ; fr. 
April 1860, No, 3051. 
Perhaps a distinct species, allied also to O. cespitosa Hiern. 
20. 0. juncoides K. Schum., l.c., p. 414. 
Punco ANnpongo,—An annual herb with the habit of Armeria, 
much-branched and ascending from the base, rather rough; stems 
hispidulous, tetragonal; leaves erect-spreading or arching-reflexed, 
herbaceous-green ; flowers white, tetramerous, very deciduous ; corolla 
white, rotate, its tube short; limb 4-cleft, clothed with a few white 
erect pilose hairs. Insandy, rocky, sparingly grassy places, in Mata de 
Pungo borealis, and at the banks of the river Cuanza near Candumba ; 
fl.and young fr. end of March and beginning of April 1857. No. 3063. 
21. Q. stellarioides Hiern, sp. n. 
A slender, strict, erect, annual herb, 6 to 9 in. high, with the 
habit almost of a Stellaria, dichotomously branched from the base ; 
branches erect-spreading, slightly rough, marked with narrow 
decurrent lines, leafy ; leaves narrow, almost acicular in the dried 
state, hispidulous, sessile, decurrent, erect-spreading, deep-green, 
} to 4 in. long, closely revolute along the margin towards the mid- 
rib; stipules shortly sheathing or almost obsolete ; flowers small, 
white, arranged in dichotomous bracteate or leafy, slender, elonga- 
ting, terminal, erect, centripetal cymes; pedicels slenedr, ultimately 
about as long as the fruit, solitary at the divisions of the cyme ; 
calyx-limb 4-partite ; segments equal, lanceolate, acute, hispidu- 
lous, persistent, 1, in. long, often with a squarrose tip; corolla 
scarcely exceeding the calyx, quadrifid ; stamens 4 ; fruit broadly 
campanulate, about as long as the calyx-limb, somewhat com- 
pressed ; seeds several, minutely punctate. 
Punco AnponGo.—In rocky, sparingly grassy places near Muta 
Lucala, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. end of March 1857. No. 3052. 
In habit it agrees with O. stelioides K. Schum., but the inflorescence 
is different. 
22. 0. rosulata K. Schum., l.c., p. 416. 
Huiztta.—A very slender little herb, apparently annual, with the 
aspect almost of Millegrana ; stem filiform, dichotomous or trichoto- 
mous, nearly erect or oblique ; leaves of two forms ; stipules scarcely 
any, represented by a glandular swelling ; corolla tubular-campanulate, 
with a quadrifid limb and shaggy throat, of a pallid-violet colour out- 
side, whitish inside, at length turning sky-blue in the course of drying. 
In marshy situations with dense herbage, in varzeas (moist meadows) 
along the river Monino ; fl. and fr. 2 Jan. 1860. No. 53820. A very 
graceful annual herb ; stem dichotomous, ascending or nearly erect, 
tetragonal ; stem-leaves distant, opposite, lanceolate, long-attenuate at 
the base ; stipules obsolete or rather substituted by an interpetiolar 
membrane, glandular-pilose on the margin; peduncles axillary and 
terminal, elongated, capillary, trichotomous or simple; flowers small, 
tetramerous, white-purplish. In grassy situations on the plateau of 
Humpata near Empalanca, sparingly ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 5319. 
The following No. should be compared with this species :— 
Huiitia.—A weak erect annual herb, scarcely 2 in. high, growing in 
dense masses ; flowers from whitish to sky-blue, In exposed sparingly 
grassy places in Morro de Lopollo, flooded in the rainy season ; fl. and 
