Thunhergia] xciv. acanthace^. 805 



segments 10, narrowly lanceolate, ^to jV in. long, glabrous; seeds 

 solitary, J; in', in diameter, umbilicate, with short adpressed papillse. 

 Between the praesidium and Caghuy, in company with other Acanthacese ; 

 fr. Feb. 1857. No. 5218. 



2. TUBIFLORA Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 2, i. pp. 19, 27 (1791). 



Elytraria Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. p. 8 (1803) ; Vahl, Enum. i. 

 p. 106 (1804) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PJ. ii. p. 1073. 



1. T. caroliniensis Gmelin, I.e. 



Justicia a^atdis L. f. Suppl. PI. p. 84 (1781). Anonymos caro^ 

 lioiiensis Walter, M. Carol, p. 60 (1788). Elytraria Vahliana 

 Mich., I.e., i. p. 9, t. 1. E. crenata Vahl, I.e. ; S. Moore in Journ. 

 Bot. 1880, p. 196 ; Burkill in Flor. Trop. Afr. v. p. 27 (1899). 

 E. lyrata and E. virgata Vahl, I.e. E. caroliniensis and E. indica 

 Pers. Syn. PI. i. p. 23 (1805). E. mwrginata Vahl ex P. Beauv. 

 PI. Owar. ii. p. 58, t. 93, fig. 2 (1818) T. acaulis O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 500 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto.— Habit of Plantago. Cungulungulo ; fl. Feb. 1855> 

 No. 5209. A low herb ; leaves membranous, bright green ; flowers, 

 white ; calyx bibracteolate at the base, 4-clef t nearly to the base, the 

 top segment the broadest, the lateral ones narrow, the bottom one. 

 deeply bifid ; ovary narrowly oblong, a little compressed ; style 

 filiform-subulate, stigmatose at the apex. In moist wooded, half- 

 shady places among the Queta mountains at the banks of the river 

 Coango, rather rare ; late fl. beginning of May 1856. No. 5157- 

 Quibolo ; fl. May 1856, No. 5210. A stemless herb, with the aspect 

 of Plantago major L., perennial or biennial ; rhizome horizontal, 

 rather thick ; leaves obovate-spathulate, on the margin almost entire 

 or sometimes runcinate towards the base, dull green, membranous,, 

 much attenuate into the petiole ; flowers whitish. In the more 

 elevated forests of Sobato Cabanga-Cacalungo, among the Cungulungula 

 mountains ; fl. and few fr. middle of June 1856. No. 5156. 



3. NELSONIA E. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1073. 



1. BT. eampestris R. Br. Prodr. p. 481 (1810); Burkill in FL 

 Trop. Afr. v. p. 28 (1899). 



Justicia hrunellcndes Lam. Tabl. Enc3'cl. i. p. 40 (1791). J. 

 canescens Lam., ^.c, p. 41. J. origaTwides, J. hirsuta, & J. 

 nummularioefolia Vahl, Enurn. i. p. 122 (1804). J. tomentosa and 

 J. lamifoUa Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 4 (1814) ; Wall. List, n. 2370 

 (1830). iV. rotundifolia R. Br., I.e. N. hirsuta Roem. & Sohult. 

 Syst. Veg. i. p. 172 (1817). N. nummularicB/olia & Jf. origanoides 

 Eoem. & Schult., I.e., p. 173. N. albicans H. B. & K. Nev. Gen. 

 ii. p. 234 (1817). N. lamiifolia R. Br. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 

 p. 42 (1825). N. canescens Spr., I.e. JV. tomentosa A. Dietr. Sp. 

 PI. i. p. 419 (1831); S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 196. jV. 

 hrunellodes 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 493 (1891). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A quite prostrate herb, only the spikes of pale 

 blue flowers erect. In the arimo of Senhor Mariano on the right 

 bank of the river Quango, sparingly in plots formerly cultivated ; fl. 

 and fr. Deo. 1854. No. 5217. Habit of Prunella ; spikes very dense, 

 whitish shaggy, soft and limp in the living state ; flowers small. 



