804 xciv. ACANTHACE-E. [Thunhergia 



Jan. and March 1860. Coll. Carp. 31. In mountainous wooded 

 rather dry places at the lake of IvantSla ; fr. 29 Feb. 1860. Coll. 

 Carp. 827. 



8. T. angolensis S. Moore, I.e., p. 195 ; Burkill, I.e., p. 24. 

 HuiLLA. — A very beautiful plant, clothed on all parta with a white 



tomentum ; flowers pale azure-blue. In thickets between Mumpulla 

 and Humpata, in company with species of Gnidia ■ (cf . G. Betidlei ; 

 Welw. herb. no. 6478) and Thesium (cf. T. Welwitschii, Welw. herb, 

 no. 6435) ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5037. In wooded thickets between 

 Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. end of Oct. 1859. No. 5038. 



9. T. lancifolia T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 19 (1863) ; 

 Burkill, I.C., p. 25. 



Var. a. auriculata S. Moore, I.e., p. 195. 



HuiLLA. — -An erect, branched, perennial, rather rigid herb ; stems 

 several, IJ to 2 ft. high ; leaves coriaceous, deep green ; calyx shortly 

 cupuliform, irregularly denticulate, bibracteolate ; corolla handsome, 

 campanulate-inf undibulLform, ^1 in. long, deep blue ; the tube orange 

 in colour, thickened ; the throat inflated ; the limb sub-bilabiate, 5-clef t, 

 spreading; the lobes obtuse ; stamens 4, but little didynamous ; anthers 

 2-celled ; the equal cells obtuse and densely bearded at the base, con- 

 nately mucronate at the apex ; filaments dilated at the apex ; stigma 

 funnel-shaped, dilat«d at the apex with a triangular margin ; seeds 

 hemispherical. Mostly in bushy sandy places about LopoUo, sparingly ; 

 11. and fr. Dec. 1859 to April 1860. No. 5011 and Coll. Carp. 828. 



Var. p. laevis S. Moore, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An erect, branched, glaucous-green, perennial 

 herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; rhizome thickly woody ; stems numerous ; 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, somewhat fleshy, becoming rigid ; flowers very 

 handsome ; corolla-tube yellow outside and more intensely so inside ; 

 the limb deep blue ; fruits 1^ to IJ in. long. On the elevated rather 

 dry slopes of Sobato Quilombo-Quiacatubia, at Comahoge ; fr. and a 

 few fl. middle of July 1856. No. 5110. 



Ambaca. — A branched, somewhat erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 very handsome deep blue flowers resembling a Gloxinia. On 

 bushy muddy declivities to the east of Izanga, plentiful ; fl. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 5161. 



Var. y. pallida S. Moore, l.c. 



HuiLLA. — In the wooded thickets of the Monino, rather rare ; fl. 

 :and fr. Deo. 1859 and Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 5012. A perennial 

 herb, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems numerous ; flowers handsome, bine ; 

 fruit 1 in. long. In thickets near Lopollo, rare ; fr. Jan. 1860. 

 ■Coll. Carp. 826. 



10. T. hyalina S. Moore, I.e., p. 195 ; Burkill, I.e., p. 26. 

 Pdngo Axdongo. — A perennial herb ; root tubercular-woody ; 



stems numerous, 1 to 2J ft. high ; flowers coppery purple, orange- 

 .coloured inside and on the tube outside : unripe capsule about an inch 

 long. In rocky hilly places at the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda • fl 

 and young fr. 30 April 1857. No. 5164. 



The following No. is 'incomplete and insufficient for specific 

 <letermination ; see S. Moore, I.e., p. 196 : — 



PuNOO Andongc— Fruit solitary, shortly pedunculate ; calyx- 



