Plumhago] lxxv. plumbagine^. 635 



LiBONGO. — An erect shrub or rarely in thickets subscandent, 2 to'3| 

 ■ft. high ; branches pale purplish ; flowers whitish. In rather dry bushy 

 places about Banza de Libongo, in company with tamarind trees, very 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 518. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, sometimes erect, 

 occasionally scandent ; flowers milk-white. In thickets near Canguera- 

 -sange and in Sobatos Bango and Bumba, not abundant although seen 

 in many places ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1854 and April 1856. No. 517. 



HuiLLA. — In thickets between Nene and Humpata, sporadic ; fl. and 

 young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 516. 



The natives of Angola call this plant "Cadinga puna " and use the 

 root as a caustic. See Welwitsch, Apontam. p. 548 under n. 83. 



2. VOGELIA Lam. (1792); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 628 ; non Medic. 



1. V. africana Lam. Tabl. Encycl. et M6th., Bot., ii. p. 149, 

 -t. 149 (July or Aug. 1792) ; Boiss. in DO. Prodr. xii. p. 696 (1848). 



Dyerophytum africanum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. (ii.), p. 394 

 <1891). Vogelia (sp.), Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 184 (1861). 



MossAMEDES. — A low shrub, 2 ft. high ; stem glaucous ; branches 

 numerous, very brittle, divaricate ; leaves spathulate, rather fleshy and 

 flaccid, glaucous ; calyx whitish, the segments ovate, transversely 

 rugose, with a black midrib ; corolla tubular, brilliantly vermilion ; 

 ovary acutely conical ; ovule solitary, quite freely pendulous from the 

 ascending filiform placenta. In a sandy sub-maritime place between 

 TVTossamedes and Cavalheiros, abundant, but seen in only one spot ; 

 -end of June 1859, most of the corollas having fallen. No. 519. A 

 very elegant undershrub, l^ft. high, woody at the base ; leaves spathu- 

 iate, glaucous-pruinose : flowers blood-red ; calyx white-greenish. In 

 ■sandy places at the river Bero ; late fl. and fr. July 1859, in company 

 with Zygophyllum simplex L. ; (see ante, p. 106.) Coll. Caep. 95. 



The specimens differ from the plant figured under this name by 

 'Harvey, Thes. Cap. ii. t. 198 (1863) by their leaves being neither 

 emarginate at the apex nor obcordate but obovate spathulate and 

 Tounded and abruptly acuminate at the apex, by their ovate-lanceolate 

 long-acuminate not subulate bracts, and by their corolla-tube much 

 exceeding the calyx. 



O. Kuntze, I.e., i. p. 37, uses the name Vogelia Medic, which he 

 rstates was published a few months earlier than the above, for Neslia 

 Desv. The correct name for the latter genus is, however, Sphcerocarpus 

 Heist, ex Fabric. Enum. Meth. PI. Hort. Helmst., edit. 2, p. 51 (1763), 

 the authority for which is not affected by Seguier having in 1746 

 :applied such a name for a different plant. Vogelia Gmel. (1791) has 

 ibeen reduced to Burmannia L. 



LXXVI. PKIMULACE^. 



1. ANAGALLIS Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 637. 



1. A. pulchella Welw. ex Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. p. 221 

 <March 1894). 



HuiLLA. — An erect, very beautiful herb, annual or rarely biennial, 

 jather fleshy throughout , stems numerous ; flowers bright purple-rosy ;. 



