844 xcvi. VERBENACE^. [Siphonomthus 



obtuse rounded or subcordate at the base, mostly acuminate at 

 the apex, herbaceous, 3 to 12 in. long by 1| to 5 in. broad, green 

 above, rather paler beneath, entire or occasionally paucidentate- 

 repand, minutely punctate, caducous at the time of the flower ; 

 reticulation slender, inconspicuous above ; petioles 1 to 2 in. long, 

 articulate and often abruptly bent above the base, the upper part 

 deciduous with the leaves, often leaving the thickened lower part 

 subpersistent and somewhat resembling blunt spines ; inflores- 

 cence oblong, 2 to 9 in. long, minutely puberulous, axillary or 

 arising from the thicker branches even at the base of the shrub, 

 many-flowered, pedunculate, bracteolate ; ultimate pedicels -^ to 

 '^ in. long ; ultimate bracteoles narrow ; flowers white with rosy 

 tint; calyx campanulate-oblong, i in. long, minutely glandular- 

 puberulous, shortly 5-lobed ; lobes deltoid, acute ; corolla tubular, 

 funnel-shaped, ^ to | in. long, 5-lobed, sub-bilabiate ; the lobes 

 obovate, rounded at the apex, not very unequal, about J in. long ; 

 stamens 4, subdidynamous, exserted, glabrous ; filaments inserted 

 at the bottom of the corolla-throat, f to i in. long ; anthers -^-^ in. 

 long; style glabrous, exserted, nearly reaching the top of the 

 longer filaments, bifid at the tip. 



GoLtTNGO Alto. — In secondary woods by rivulets in Sobato de 

 Mussengue ; fl. Aug. 1855. No. 5714. In the shady parts of the 

 Sobatos Bumba and Bango, at the banks of streams, not uncommon ; 

 fl. Sept. 1855. No. 5738. In the forest near Menha Lula in Sobato 

 de Mussengue ; fl. Sept. 1855. No. 5662. At Quibolo ; leaves of the 

 previous year (soon falling), without fl. or fr. May 1856. No. 6711- 



The two following Nos. may be compared with this species, but 

 the leaves are wedge-shaped at the base : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A young shrub-like little tree, 5 ft. high ; trunk 

 ashy, straight, oppositely spiny ; branches compressed near the nodes ; 

 the upper leaves membranous, the lower leaves coriaceous. At the 

 cataracts of the river Cuango ; without fl. or fr. May 1855. No. 4537. 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A robust shrub, scandent and pendulous ; leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous, shining. In secondary thickets grown up after 

 the burning of the forests ; without fl. or fr. Dec. 1855. No. 6713. 



12. S. myricoides. 



Glerodendrwm myricoides R. Br. in Salt, Abyss., App. p. Ixv. 

 (1814), name only. Spironema myricoides Hochst. in PI. Abyss, 

 exsicc. i. n. 330 (1840). Gyclonema myricoides Hochst. in Flora 

 XXV. p. 225 (1842). 



LoANDA. — A tall shrub, well worth cultivating, 3 to 5 ft. high ; 

 stems numerous, erect or oblique, pale green, marked with white scars, 

 virgate, trichotomously branched ; leaves acuminate at the apex, 

 attenuate and quite entire at the base, strongly serrate in the middle, 

 membranous, bright green, more or less puberulous ; calyx almost 

 constantly glabrous, blackish purple or greenish purple, its lobes very 

 obtuse ; corolla pale blue, the middle lobe of the lower lip blue and 

 thug making the flower to resemble almost exactly that of a dog-violet; 

 stamens in the late flowers not uncommonly very short and not 

 circinate ; drupes blackish purple, when fully ripe certainly juicy, 

 edible, 4-pyrenous or by abortion 3- to l-pyrenous. In quite dry and 



