BleplM7-is] xciv. acanthacejE. 81 S 



Ben'guella.^ Annual herb ; stem and linear leaves whitish-glaucous ; 

 flowers unilabiate, pale cyaneous. At Benguella ; fl. June 1859. 



7. B. Buohneri Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. p. 30 (1894) ; 

 C. B. CI., I.C., p. 101. 



B. acanthodioides S. Moore, I.e., pp. 229, 393, partly; non 

 Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. p. 212 (1861). 



Ambaca. — Annual. In dry hilly places on the left bank of the river 

 Oaringa, very rare ; fr. June 1855. No. 5163. 



PuNGO Andongo. — About a foot high ; leaves from oval-oblong to 

 elongate-lanceolate, ranging up to 6 in. long by an inch broad. A young 

 plant without fl. Feb. 1 867 ; probably this species. Np. 5219. An 

 annual herb, sometimes simple 1 to 2 ft. high, sometimes much 

 branched 2 to 4 ft. high ; flowers large, blue, very ornamental. In 

 pastures and in the more sparingly grassy meadows, tolerably plentiful, 

 especially fine at the banks of streams ; by the Catete river ; fl. May 1857. 

 No. 5174. At Canandula ; fl. end of May 1857. No. 5112. Leaves 

 ranging up to 4^ in. long. In fl. No. 5080. No notes. In fl. No. 5096. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers bright blue, almost azure-blue. In thickets at 

 the outskirts of the Monino forests, sparingly ; fl. April 1860. No. 5061. 



8. B. noli-me-tongere S. Moore, I.e., p. 231 ; C. B. CI., I.e., p. 103. 

 MossAMEDES. — A much branched shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; branches 



divaricate, tortuous, very hardly elastic, virgate-ascending ; bark 

 whitish ; leaves unequal on the same plant ; flowers azure-blue. In 

 gravelly bushy places in little woods composed of Tamarix orientalis 

 Forsk. (Welw. herb. no. 1086) and a species of Cordia (cf . Welw. herb, 

 no. 4781), on the right bank of the river Maiombo, between Pedra de 

 Sal and the river ; late fl. Oct. 1859. No. 5045. 



9. B. diversispina C. B. CL, Ic, p. 104. 



Acanthodvwm diversispiniim, Nees, I.e., p. 275. Blepharis sp. n., 

 S. Moore, I.e., p. 232. 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers clear blue. In very dry places on a sandy 

 clay soil near Caldeira do inferno ; very late fl. and young fr. June 1860. 

 No. 5014 (2014, by error, in Herb. Kew. ; compare note under B. 

 linarkefolia, ante n. 6). An annual herb, scarcely ^ ft. high, branched 

 from the base, glaucous and brittle throughout ; leaves linear ; flowers 

 crowded in fir-cone shaped clusters at the base of the stems, pale blue. 

 In the sandy rocky parts of Boca do Rio Bero ; fl. end of July 1859. 

 No. 5021. 



Var. j8. furcata. 



A. diversispinttm, var. ^, Nees, I.e. B. edulis, var., S. Moore, 

 I.e., p. 229. 



MOSSAMEDES. — A prostrate, annual or biennial herb, much branched 

 from the base ; flowers unilabiate, pale blue, almost like those of an 

 Acanthus. In sandy places at the mouth of the river Bero, at Saoo de 

 Oiraul, rather rare ; fl. July 1859. No. 5019. 



13. ACANTHUS Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Oeu. PI. ii. 

 p. 1090. 



1. A. montanus T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 37 (1863) ; 

 S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 232 ; C. B. CI. in Fl. Trop. Afr, 

 v. p. 107 (1899). 



Cheilopsis montana Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 272 (1847). 



