Lomtana\ xcvi. verbenace^. 829 



HuiLLA. — In hilly places near LopoUo among shrubs, rather rare, fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1859 ; also in thickets flooded in the rainy season, in the 

 same neighbourhood ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 5756. 



4. L. viburnoides Vahl, Symb. Bot. i. p. 45 (1790). 



Gharachera viburnoides Forsk. Fl. jSCgypt.-Arab. p. 116 (1775). 



HtriLLA. — An aromatic undershrub, 1^ ft. high or more, with white 

 flowers. In the Lopollo thickets ; fl. Deo. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 

 5762. Flowers white. In the Monino Crests among tail herbs ; fl. end 

 of March 1860. No. 5751. 



Our specimens are not in fruit, and therefore their determination is 

 doubtful. 



3. LIPPIA Houst., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1142. 



1. L. nodiflora Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. p. 15 (1803). 

 Verh&na nodiflora L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 20 (1753). Phyla, 



nodiflora E. L. Greene, Pittonia iv. p. 46 (1899). 



LoANDA. — A bright green, prostrate -rooting herb ; leaves firm and 

 somewhat rigidly fleshy ; flowers purple. In damp pastures near 

 Quicuxe, not plentiful; fl. 10 June 1858. Nos. 5638, 5717. 



Bakka do Bengo. — An extensively creeping, bright green herblet, 

 with somewhat fleshy leaves and whitish-rosy flowers. About the lake 

 of Quisequele near Quifandongo, plentiful ; fl. Dec. 1853. No. 5642. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Flowers violet-purple. At Salina da Dungo ; 

 fl. and fr. end of March 1857. No. 5694. 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers purple. In damp sandy places at the lakes 

 of the river Caroco, abundant, in company with Sehochloa schoenoides 

 Host (Welw. herb. no. 2622) ; fl. 3 Sept. 1859. No. 5748. 



2. L. adoensis Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, ii. n. 1079 (1842) ; 

 Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. p. 578 (1847) ; A. E,ich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 p. 167 (1851). 



Lantama ahyssinica Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gartenzeit. is. p. 379 

 (1841). Lippia grandifolia Hochst., I.e., ii. n. 734; A. Rich., I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Between Trombeta and Cabondo ; in late fr. 

 Sept. 1854. No. 5741. 



Cazengo. — An erect herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, with the aspect somewhat 

 of a Sparganqphorus. In the drier bushy places between the river 

 Luinha and Mount Muxaula ; in young fl. June 1855. No. 5627- 



Ambaca. — An undershrub, 1^ to 2 ft. high ; stems ascending, 

 angular ; leaves coriaceous, very rough ; flowers small, whitish. In 

 bushy places near Halo, sparingly; fl. Oct. 1856. DifEers from the type 

 of the species by its ascending and not strictly erect habit. No. 5732. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect undershrub. In rocky places to the 

 south of the praesidium ; in fl.-bud middle of April . 1857. Nos. 5690 

 partly, 5667 partly. 



Var. multicaulis. 



An erect undershrub, 3 to 7 ft. high, more or less aromatic ; 

 rootstock woody; stems numerous, angular, furrowed, branched 

 above; branchlets opposite or ternate, erect-patent, hispidulous- 

 pubescent ; leaves opposite or ternate, lanceolate or narrowly 

 elliptical, more or less narrowed at both ends, scabrid and hispidu- 

 lous with impressed venation above, thinly pubescent or hispidu- 

 lous beneath, crenulate, 2 to 4|- in. long by ^ to 1|- in. broad ; 



