Sygrophila] xciv. acanthace^. 807 



bivalved, the cells several-seeded ; seeds erect-spreading, placed in two 

 rows at the placenta in each cell, rather large in proportion to the size 

 of the plant. By the wet sides of streams between Nene and Ohai, 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. middle of May 1860. No. 5772. 



6. BRILLANTAISIA Pal. Beauv. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. ii. p. 1076. 



1. B. Lamium Benth. in Hook. Mger Fl. p. 477 (1849) ; Burkill 

 in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 38 (1899). 



Leucorkaphis Lamium Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 97 (1847). 



Prince's Island. — Herbaceous, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems erect or 

 ascending; flowers deep blue. In moist exposed woody situations, 

 almost everywhere ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5205. 



2. B. patula T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 21 (1863) ; 

 Burkill, I.e., p. 41. 



B. alata T. And. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 125, 

 t. 124 (1875). 



Var. Welwitschii Burkill, I.e., p. 42. 



B. alata S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 197. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A gigantic herb, 5 ft. high and more ; stem 

 straight, acutely angular, branched in the upper part ; flowers deep 

 blue, resembling those of a Salvia. By the streams Quango and 

 Quibolo, plentiful ; fl. July, fr. Aug. and Sept. 1856. No. 5182. A 

 herb of 5 to 7 ft., with handsome azure-blue flowers. By the Quiapoze 

 and Cuango streams, near Sange, not abundant ; in fl. No. 5149. No 

 notes. In fl. and fr. No. 5150. 



Cazengo.— Flowers thyreoid, blue. Muxaulo ; fr. June 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 834. 



7. DYSCHORISTE Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar.iii.- p. 75 (1832). 

 Galophanes D. Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., ser. 2, ii. n. 181 

 <March 1833); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 1077. 



1. D. radicans ITees in DO. Prodr. xi. p. 106 (1847); C. B. CI. 

 in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 73 (1899). 



Bvsllia radicans Hochst. in JPl. Schimp. Abyss, i. nn. 17, 177; 

 Tion Lindau. Calopfwmes radicans T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 vii. p. 23 (1863); S. Moore in Journ. Bot. (1880) p. 197, partly. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high ; the numerous stems 

 and branches ascending-erect and almost forming thick clumps ; flowers 

 pale sulphur in colour, subaromatic, much frequented by bees ; calyx 

 equally 5-oleft ; corolla bilabiate, the lower lip S-loied," the lobes 

 shortly incised at the somewhat obtuse apex, the middle lobe sprinkled 

 with black-purple dots, the upper lip more deeply bilobed, its lobes 

 somewhat obtuse, the tube straight and cylindrical ; stamens 4, all 

 fertile, exserted ; filaments inserted a little below the throat of the 

 •corolla ; ovary elongate-ovoid, almost cylindrical, subsessile, inserted 

 on the thick orange-coloured disk at the bottom of the calyx, 2-celled ; 

 ovules few, perhaps 3 or 4 in each cell ; nearly ripe seeds compressedly 

 ovoid, emarginate at the base, cordiform ; style filiform, bifid at the 

 apex. On the bushy slopes of the gigantic rocks of the prsesidium, 



