830 XCVI. VERBENACE^. [Lippia 



petiole 1^ to -1^ in. long; flowers small, capitate; heads sub- 

 hemispherical in flower, |- in. in diameter, densely bracteate, 

 ovoid-oblong in fruit; bracts ovate-oblong, imbricate, shortly 

 pubescent on the back, minutely glandular, longitudinally lined, 

 about -J- in. long; calyx scarcely or about -^ in. long, hairy; 

 corolla 1^ to 1^ in. long, brilliantly white or whitish ; hmb small, 

 yY in. in diameter ; style Jj- in. long ; fruit dry. 



Ambaca. — In the more elevated bushy mountainous places about 

 Puri-Cacarambola ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 5733. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In bushy rocky places to the south of the prse- 

 sidium, plentiful ; fl. and fr. middle of April 1857. Bunda name 

 ' • Mangue." Nos. 5690 partly, 5667 partly. 



3. L.asperifolia Marthe, Cat. PI. Jard. Med. Paris, p. 67 HSOl). 



V^bena gloKflora L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. p. 23, t. 12 (1784). 

 Lantana lavandidacea Jacq. PI. Ear. Schoenbr. ui. p. 59, t. 361 

 (1798). 



Bumbo. — A strongly aromatic undershrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, with 

 white flowers. In thickets near Bumbo, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. 

 Oct. 1839. No. 5749. 



HtriLLA. — Flowers white. In hilly thickets on the right bank of the 

 LopoUo river ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Feb. 1860. No. 5750. 



I have not seen the type of this species ; our specimens bear some 

 resemblance to Z. adoemis Hochst., but the heads of flowers are 

 smaller. 



3. VALERIANOIDES Boerh. ex Medic. Phil. Bot. i. p. 177 (1789). 



Abena Neck. Elem. Bot. i. p. 296 (1790). Stachytarpheta Vahl, 

 Enum. i. p. 205 (1804); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1145. 



1. V. mutabilis O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 510 (1891), 

 {ycderiamodes). 



Stachytarpheta mutabiUs Vahl, I.e., p. 209. Stachytarpha 

 elegans Welw. Apontam. p. 588. n. 56 (1859). 



LOANDA.— At Bemposta ; fl. Dec. 1858. Nos. 5737, 5649, 5716. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An undershrub, 3 ft. high, much branched from 

 the base ; branches divaricate-ascending ; flowers of a deep violet 

 colour. In secondary thickets near Quitage, between Pungo Andongo 

 and Cassange, rather rare ; fl. beginning of March 1857. No. 5631. 

 An undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, fastigiately branched at the apex ; 

 flowers violet or white or variegated with purple. In thickets near 

 Quitage ; fl. March 1857. Coll. Caep. 840. 



HuiLLA.— At Catumba ; fl. May 1860. No. 5764. 



Welwitsoh in Apontaim., I.e., states that this is a very rare plant and 

 was found by him only in one spot ; but in a ms. note he reported 

 it as plentiful in another locality. It is perhaps the Stachytarpheta 

 mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. No. 24 (May 

 1856), p. 250, n.' 130, as an ornamental undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, 

 with large white handsome flowers, and as growing in damp fields in 

 the Loanda country, where it is rather rare and flowers from 

 November to February. 



2. V. jamaicensisO. Kuntze, I.e., p. 509 ( Vakrianodes jamaieense). 



Verbena jammoensis L. Sp, PI., edit. 1, p. 19 (1753). Verb. 



indica L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 85 (1759); Jacq. Obs. Bot. iv. 



