liueUia] xciv. acanthace^. SOft' 



3. R. bignoniseflora S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 198 ; 0. B. 

 01., U, p. 48. 



Dischistocalyx hignoniiflmiis Lindau in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam.. 

 iv. 36., p. 307 (1895). 



Ambriz.— In thickets near Banza do Regulo Quisembo, sparingly -^ 

 with the corollas fallen, end of Nov. 1853. No. 5126. 



LoANDA. — A glandular-viscid undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, with 

 white flowers. ' In rocky places at Praia de Zamba Grande, plentiful ;. 

 fl. and fr. 16 Jan. 1859. No. 5202. No notes. Infr, No. 5063, i)ar%. 

 Corolla nearly 4 in. long, with an elongated trumpet-shaped tube. 

 No. 5130. SufTruticose, the whole plant emitting a goatish smell ; stem 

 beset with whitish hairs ; flowers large, white. In thickets near Boa 

 Vista ; fr. March 1854. Probably this species. Coll. Cakp. 829. 



The following description taken from Welwitsch's MSS. pro- 

 bably belongs to Rtcellia hignoniceflora S. Moore : — 



LOANDA. — An erect, branched undershrub or shrublet, remarkable 

 for its goatish smell ; stems whitish, woody : branches herbaceous, as 

 well as the leaves beset with stalked densely crowded viscid rank-fetid 

 glands : flowers white, solitary in the axils of the leaves, erect-spread- 

 ing, quickly withering ; calyx deeply 5-cIef t, divided to the base ; the 

 segments equal, elongated, linear-lanceolate, erect, beset on the back 

 with glandular hairs, cUiate on the mnrgin with longer glandless hairs ^ 

 corolla tubular, somewhat funnel-shaped ; the tube long, shortly pilose 

 outside, glabrous within, cylindrical nearly throughout its whole 

 length, the limb subequally 5-clef t. the lobes during the flowering sub- 

 bilabiately spreading ; stamens 4, didynamous, inserted a little below 

 the coroUa-throat, included ; filaments cylindrical, somewhat pilose ; 

 anthers linear-oblong, whitish, bifid at the base, attached at the back 

 near the emargination, bilocular ; the cells parallel, muticous ; ovary 

 ovoid-conical, sessile in the centre of the thick white turgid disk,, 

 bilocular : the cells 4-ovuIate ; the ovules ascending, reniform ; style 

 long, a little exceeding the stamens, filiform ; stigma bifid ; the lobes 

 unequal in length, stigmatose on the inner side. In dry plantations of 

 Euphorbia, also in hilly bushy places near Boa Vista, plentiful ; fl. from 

 November to March. Distinguished from all other Angolan Acanthacese- 

 by its long tubular flowers, coupled with its rank goatish smell. 



4. E. diversifolia S. Moore, I.e., p. 198 ; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 48. 

 MosSAMEDES. — A sufErutesceut herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, clothed with 



white goatish-fetid glands and hairs ; stems numerous ; flowers white.. 

 On rocks of red sandstone at Boca do Rio Bero, only in a fevr places ? 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5042. 



Bumbo. — Corolla whitish with a flesh-coloured tube. At the out- 

 skirts of thickets and in dense thickets near Bumbo ; fl. and fr. Oct, 

 1859. No. 5033. 



As to whether this species should be referred to the genus Paulo- 

 wilhelmia, se« Lindau in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 36 p. 301 (1895). 

 The pollen is globose, nodulose, not prickly. 



9. PETALIDIUM Nees; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1081.. 



1. P. physaloides S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, pp. 225, 228, 

 tab. 212, fig. 2 ; C. B. 01. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 89. 



Psevdobarkria physcdoides Lindau in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. 36, p. 299 (1895). 



