Thesium] cxiv. santalace/E. 937 



HuiLLA. — In thickets and hilly hot places near LopoUo, sparingly, 

 fl. 2 Dec, 1859 ; also in wooded meadows near Catumba, not plentiful, 

 fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 6436. 



3. T. andongense Hieru, sp. n. 



A hard, annual, virgately much branched, nearly glabrous 

 herb, 3 to 4 ft. high or more ; stem marked with narrow 

 foliaceous wings below, at the base furnished with 2 opposite 

 linear leaves, leafless above; flowers about -j^ in. long, from 

 greenish to yellowish, very shortly pedicellate, arranged in slender 

 spicate racemes ; pedicels with 3 small bracteoles at the base ; 

 free portion of the perianth campanulate, 5-cleft, about -^ in. 

 long, marcescent, not bearded inside, the lobes ovate-deltoid ; 

 stamens 5, inserted at the base of the perianth-lobes and opposite 

 to them; filaments flattened, scarcely bearded; anthers oblong, 

 included ; ovary almost wholly inferior ; style included, exceeding 

 the stamens, filiform ; stigma capitellate ; fruit including the 

 marcescent perianth about |- in. long, Jj- in. in transverse diameter, 

 hard, greenish, ribbed, between the ribs transversely obliquely 

 and thickly veiny, 2-seeded. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In thin bushy sandy rocky forests, not far from 

 the river Cuanza, near Mopopo ; fl. and fr. 22 Feb., 1857. No. 6434. 



4. T. equisetoides Welw. ms. in herb. 



A minutely pubernlous, nearly glabrescent, wiry herb ; root- 

 stock thick, woody, polycephalous ; stems prostrate, whip-like, 

 branched, with the habit of an Eqmsetwm, slender ; branches 

 alternate, angular; leaves comparatively few, subulate, acute, 

 sessile, somewhat decurrent, opposite or alternate, -^ to Jg- in. 

 long ; flowers terminal, bracteate at the base, solitary, x^^o -^ in. 

 long, greenish; free portion of the perianth persistent, about 

 J^ to -jL in. long, shortly cylindrical, deeply 5-lobed; the 

 segments lanceolate, not bearded inside, obtuse, the tips and 

 sides narrowly inflected ; anthers shortly oblong, included ; style 

 included, exceeding the stamens ; bracts subulate, ^ to -i- in. 

 long ; lower portion of the fruit ^ in. long by -^ in. in diameter, 

 ribbed, the ribs jointed with oblique venation. 



PuNGO Andongo. — ^In sandy wooded places near Cazella on the 

 left bank of the river Catete ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1867. No. 6433. 



5. T. lopollense Hiern, sp. n. 



A dwarf, obsoletely puberulous, spreading shrublet, 2 to 8 in. 

 high, much branched from the base ; rootstock rather thick, 

 woody, perennial ; branches slender, wiry, angular, leafy at least 

 upwards, the more spreading ones ascending towards the apex ; 

 leaves alternate, lanceolate-subulate or subulate, acute at the 

 apex, rather thick, the sides curved inwards below, broadest 

 sessile and decurrent at the base, -^ ^ \ in. long ; flowers sub- 

 sessile, terminating the branches and the upper short or very 

 short lateral shoots, each solitary, together forming terminal 

 leafy narrow panicles or more or less secund spicate racemes, 

 about \ in. long; the very short pedicels rather fleshy, with 4 or 



