XCVI. VEEBENACEiB. 831 



p. 7, tab. 86 (1771). Verb, angmtifolia Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 15 

 ^1768). Stachytarpheta angustifolia, S. indica, and S. jammcensis 

 Tahl, Enum. PI. i. pp. 205, 206 (1804). S. indica Ficalho, PI. 

 Uteis, p. 240 (1884). 



LoANDA. — In damp places at the edges of ponds near Quicuxe, and 

 "by Represa do Manoel Pereira van Hunnen, rather rare ; fl. beginning 

 of July 1854. No. 5652. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — An annual, erect, bright green herb, branched 

 from the base ; leaves membranous, rather glossy ; flowering spikes 

 ■straight, very slender, elongated, usually more than 6 in. long ; flowers 

 violet-purple, rarely whitish-violet in colour, scarcely larger than those 

 •of Verbena officmalis L. In swampy places about Lagoa da Fnnda, 

 not uncommon ; also near Imbondeiro dos Lobos ; fl. beginning of 

 Sept. 1859. No. 5640. 



According to a note of Welwitsch, this species is used in Loanda, 

 where it is plentiful, as a remedy in cases of dysentery, in the same 

 way as it is in tropical America ; the native name is " Cachinde ca 

 menha." 



4. DURANTA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 1150. 



1. D. erecta L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 637 (1753). 



D. repem L., I.e. D. plumieri L. Sp. PI., edit. 2, p. 888 (1762). 



HuiLLA. — A much-branched shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high, with blue flowers. 

 In shrubby places near Lopollo, in company with Psiadia arahica Janb. 

 & Spach (Welw. herb. no. 3914), Jasminum microphyUum Baker 

 (Welw. herb. no. 932), and Siphonanthus dumalis (Welw. herb. no. 

 5763) ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. No. 5760- An arborescent spinescent 

 shrub, with bright blue flowers. In thickets near Lopollo, plentiful ; 

 fl. and fr. May 1860. Coll. Carp. 91. 



5. PREMNA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1152. 



1. P. angolensis Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 165 

 <22 Dec. 1893). 



GoLUNGO Alto.^ — Glabrescent except the puberulous inflorescence ; 

 branches woody, subterete, somewhat pallid, striate, inconspicuously 

 lenticellate ; branchlets somewhat angular, leafy ; leaves temate, 

 •quatemate or opposite, roundly ovate, cuspidate obtuse or pointed 

 at the apex, usually very obtuse or sub-truncate at the base, thinly 

 coriaceous, entire and somewhat undulate on the margin, yellowish 

 green on both faces, 3 to 5 in. long by 2 to 3 in. broad ; lateral veins 

 about 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, slender ; petioles 1 to 3 in. 

 long ; inflorescence terminal, subglobose, about 3 in. in diameter, 

 ■divaricately branched, densely many-flowered ; common peduncle 

 scarcely an inch long ; ultimate pedicels very short, sub-obsolete ; 

 bracteolesi minute ; flowers about J in. long, crowded ; calyx about 

 .X. in. long, hemispherical-campanulate, truncate or scarcely lobed - 

 <;orolla shortly tubular ; the tube about Jg. in. long by -A- in. broad ; 

 the limb oblique, 4-lobed, somewhat spreading ; the lobes rounded ; 

 the throat hairy ; stamens 4, subdidynamous, scarcely exserted, 

 inserted on the corolla-throat, glabrous ; style -^ to Jg- in. long, 

 scarcely exserted, glabrous, straight or a little curved, notched at 

 the apex ; ovary depressed-spheroidal, marked with two furrows, 

 nearly glabrous, with some small scaly hairs or minute glands. At 

 TJndelle ; fl. April 1856. Called " Mungongo." No. 5628. A tree. 



