Ol6bularid\ xcv. selagine^e. 827 



Wettst. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 6., p. 272, fig. 103 C 

 (1895). L. amnygdalifolius Wettst. in Engl., I.e., p. 273. 



Island of Madeira. — A lovely shrub, IJ to 2^ ft. high ; branches 

 ascending ; leaves coriaceous, rigid, rather glossy. In stony places not 

 far from the ocean, by the road which leads from Funchal to Camara 

 dos Lobos, abundant ; fl. end of August 1853. No. 784. 



XCVI. VERBENACEiE. 

 1. LANTANA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1142. 



1. L. Camara L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 627 (1753). 



L. antidotalis Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. iv. 

 p. 50 (1829). 



LOANDA. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high ; root woody ; stems several, 

 erect or oblique, distinctly hexagonal or obtusely tetragonal ; branches 

 and branchlets patent ; leaves almost always (according to Welwitsoh) 

 ternate, sometimes opposite ; flowers yellow, almost tending to orange 

 in colour ; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than the corolla-tube ; 

 drupels deep blue. In thickets not far from the ocean, extending at 

 intervals from Ambriz to the month of the river Cuanza ; at Penedo ; 

 fl. Feb. 1858. Used as an officinal plant by the negroes ; scent very 

 agreeable. No. 6722. In fl. and fr. Nos. 5650, 5715, 5658. 



PuNGO Andongo.— In fr. Dec. 1856. No. 5692. A much branched 

 shrub, 5 ft. high, with numerous stems and orange-coloured flowers. 

 In thickets at the outskirts of Mata de Pungo ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 

 5723. A simple erect shrnblet, 6| in. high, apparently perennial ; 

 leaves membranous ; flowers orange-yellow. In a rocky part of the 

 prsesidium, at Barrancos da Pedra Pungo ; only one specimen, fl. May 

 1857. No. 5621. In fl. and young fr. No. 5676. 



_ MosSAMEDES. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, subscandent or rather with 

 virgate sarmentose branches ; flowers saffron- or orange-yellow; drupels 

 black-bluish. At the banks of the river Bero, plentiful ; fl. and fr. 

 June 1859. No. 5765. 



Cape de Veedb Islands. — Prickly, shrubby ; fr. baccate. In St. 

 Jago ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. Belongs to this or an allied species. No. 

 5626. 



2. L. salvifolia Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. p. 18, t. 285 (1798). 

 LoANDA. — A much branched undershrub, scarcely a shrub, woody at 



the base ; branches divaricate ; corolla white, yellow at the bottom. 

 At the lowest parts of the mountains between Penedo and Forte 

 Concei9ao ; fl. and fr. 22 April 1858. No. 5720. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Roadway near Mussengue ; fl. April 1865. A 

 broad-leaved form of the species. No. 5742. An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, at first erect or even strict, afterwards almost a shrub with 

 twisted arching branches ; flowers milk-white. At the outskirts of 

 forests in Sobato de Quilombo and at the river Quango, etc. ; fl. and fr. 

 April 1856. Nos. 5666, 5643, 5727, and Coll. Carp. 841. 



Cazbngo. — A suffruticose herb, 3 to 4 ft. high. By thickets near 

 Cacula ; fl. June 1855. A broad-leaved form.' No. 5743. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high; root woody; stems 

 numerous, prostrate or ascending ; flowers very prettily violet-rosy, 

 scentless ; £:uit baccate, edible, resembling a mulberry but the drupels 

 larger violet-rosy shining like pearls and separated from each other 

 by broad projecting bracts, with a very pleasant acid taste suggesting 



