Siphonanthus] xcvi. verbbnace^. 845 



also in moist sandy bushy places from Penedo to Quicuxe, not un- 

 common, in dull rainy seasons flowering and fruiting two or three 

 times in a year ; near Quicuxe, fl. and fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 5700. At 

 Penedo ; fr. with scarcely good seeds, April 1854. Coll. Carp. 851 . 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, formed like a little tree, 4 to 6 ft. high; 

 trunk simple, straight ; head much branched ; flowers in shape and 

 colour like dog-violets. In mountainous rocky places about Sange ; fl. 

 March 1856. No. 5698. A form with rather larger foliage and flowers. 

 No. 5623. Infl. No. 5708. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A very elegant little tree, 7 to 9 ft. high ; trunk 

 slender, straight, below without branches ; head broadly ovate, densely 

 leafy,'6 to 8 ft. in diameter ; leaves membranous but somewhat fleshy, 

 turning black and falling ofE in drying, deep green and but little glossy 

 above, pallid beneath ; flowers very abundant, pale blue, the lip more 

 deeply coloured. In the rocky pastures of Pedra de Cabondo, rather 

 rare ; fl. Nov. 1856. No. 5699. An undershrub, IJ to 3 ft. high, 

 erect or ascending at the base ; leaves ternate or quatemate, sub- 

 coriaceous, somewhat shining above, paler beneath ; flowers handsome, 

 from cornflower-blue to sky-blue, resembling those of a violet. In 

 rooky thickets about Caghny, plentiful ; fl. end of Nov. 1856. No. 

 5704. A shrub, 4 to 9 ft. high, much branched from the base ; leaves 

 membranous but somewhat fleshy, deep green above, scented like 

 cooked pork ; corolla pale blue, the lip concave and more deeply 

 violet-blue. In wooded thickets near Quilange; fl. and unripe fr. 

 Dec. 1856. No. 5707. A handsome undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 

 rhizome woody, polycephalous ; stems numerous, erect or oblique, 

 sparingly branched ; leaves quatemate, subverticillate, shining ; flowers 

 very pleasantly violet-blue ; drupes turgid, 2- or 3- or rarely 4-lobed, 

 when quite ripe blackish purple, with only a little red juice, eaten by 

 the negroes. On the more barren plains and in rocky thickets about 

 Pungo Andongo, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. from Feb. to April 1857. 

 No. 5703. In fl. Nos. 5681, 5683. 



Var. herbaoea. 



A perennial herb, with many erect branches from the base, 1^ to 

 2 ft. high ; flowers pale sky-blue, rather larger than in the type. 



HuiLLA. — In wooded places at lake IvantWa ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. 

 No. 5768. 



This species is probably the plant mentioned by Welwitsch in Ann. 

 Cons. Ultramar. Lisboa, No. 7, p. 84, n. 91 (Aug. 1854) ; and in Bol. 

 Offio. Gov. Angola, No. 700, p. 7. n. 91 (26 Feb. 1859). He described 

 it as a shrub of 4 to 6 ft., with very elegant whitish violet flowers like 

 a violet ; it was found rather rare in Loanda thickets in Jan. 1854. 



13. S. assurgens Hiern, sp. n. 



A robust undershrub or a shrub of 6 to 10 ft. high, climbing 

 high and widely ; stems woody at the base and upwards, becoming 

 ■whitish, quadrangular ; branches softly pubescent ; leaves opposite, 

 oval or somewhat elliptical, pointed obtuse or acuminate at the 

 apex, more or less obliquely narrowed or obtuse at the base, some- 

 ■what fleshy, rigid, scarcely glossy deep-green and with scattered 

 adpressed hairs above, paler and more closely clothed with hairs 

 and minute glands beneath, entire or nearly so, 3 to 5 in. long by 

 1|- to 3-| in. broad, the floral ones smaller ; lateral nerves 4 to 7 

 on each side of the midrib, rather slender ; petioles ranging up 



