Siphonanthus] xcvi. VERBENACEiE. 841 



bracts varying from ovate or obovate to narrowly elliptical, very 

 acute, hairy at the back, ciliate, |- to ,1 in. long, veiny ; calyx ^ in. 

 long, deeply 5- or 4-lobed, the lobes ovate, very acute, resembling 

 the bracts in substance and hairiness ; corolla-tube slender, hairy 

 outside, about 2 in. long or rather more ; the limb about ^ in. 

 in diameter ; the lobes 5, obtuse, imbricate in aestivation ; stamens 

 didynamous ; filaments spiral in sestivation, in flower straight and 

 exserted by f or 1 in., nearly glabrous, slender ; style exserted 

 by more than an inch, nearly glabrous, slender. 



Ptjngo Andongo. — In secondary wooded thickets by the river 

 Caghuy between Caghuy and the river Cuanza ; fl. middle of Jan. 

 1857. No. 5685. 



5. S. cuneifolia. 



Ckrodendron cuneifolium Baker ms. in Herb. 



Flowering branchlets obtusely quadrangular, palUd, clothed 

 with short curly hairs mixed with some long jointed ones ; inter- 

 nodes shorter than the leaves, not or scarcely thickened ; leaves 

 opposite, erect-patent, obovate. narrowly and abruptly cuspidate 

 at the apex, narrowed towards the often obtuse trinerved base, 

 membranous, deep green and adpressedly hairy above, pallid and 

 hairy at least along the midrib and principal veins beneath, 

 irregularly toothed along the upper part below the cusp, entire 

 below, 2^ to 3|- in. long by 1|- to If in. broad; lateral veins 

 about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, erect-patent ; petiole 

 ^ to ^ in. long, hairy, often bent at one or both ends, the base 

 thickening; flowers crowded in dense subsessile terminal hemi- 

 spherical abbreviated cymes or heads; bracts elliptical, acute at 

 both ends, about ^ in. long ; calyx deeply lobed, -f in. long ; the 

 lobes elliptical, acute, ciliate, veiny, nearly ^ in. long; corolla- 

 tube slender, 1-|- to 2 in. long, thinly pubescent ; the limb about 

 ■|- in. in diameter ; filaments and style exserted. 



Pttngo Andongo. — No precise locality ; in fl. No. 5684. 



This closely resembles the last species, but the shape of the leaves is 

 different. 



6. S. splendens. 



Ohrodendron splendens G. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xi. p. 349 

 (1824). 



Zenza do GrOLUNGO. — In wooded places at the Mongolo river, 

 Muxdo ; fl. Sept. 1854. No. 5664. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — On rocks and in bushy places between Cacarambola 

 and Cambondo ; fl. beginning of Feb. 1855. No. 5646. A shrub, 4 to 

 5 ft. high, climbing with divaricate branches ; leaves softly coriaceous, 

 buUate-rugose ; flowers very pleasantly flesh-coloured to reddish. In 

 the Alto Queta secondary thickets, rather rare ; fl. beginning of August 

 1856. No. 5740. A shrub with splendid purple flowers ; capsules 

 shining, black ; endocarp orange in colour. From Oal61o to Cami- 

 Inngo, plentiful. At Sange ; fr. Sept. 1855. Apparently this species. 

 Coll. Carp. 850. 



Var.? Bakeri. 



Scandent ; leaves villose-tomentose, cordiform, ranging up to 



