Faroa] lxxxv. GENTiANEiE. 711 



(Welw. herb. no. 1901), and an Indigofera ; fl. Oct. 1859 to Jan. 1860 ; 

 fr. Feb. and March 1860. No. 1523 and Coll. Oabp. 74. 



This (and perhaps also the two species of Chironia) is probably the 

 plant referred to by Welwitsch, Syuopse Explic. p. 55, n. 144, under 

 the Portuguese name of " Fel da terra de flor roxa." 



5. HIPPION Sprang. Syst. Veg. i. p. 589 (1825), major e parte; 

 F. W. Schmidt in Ebm. Arohiv. Bot. i. p. 9 (1796), niinimd parte. 



Enicostema Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ind. Bat. p. 848 (1826) ; Benth. 

 & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 807. 



1. H. verticillatum F. W. Schmidt in Eom., I.e., i. p. 11; 

 .Sprang., I.e. ; 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PL p. 428 (1891) {Hippionum v.). 



Gentiana verticilla,ta L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 952 (1759). 

 Ericoila vertidllata Borckh. in Kbm., I.e., i. p. 27. Enioosteima 

 littorale Blume, I.e., Enicostemma verticillatum Engl, ax Gilg in 

 Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 67 (Feb. 1895). 



Benguella. — A herb or undershrub, ^ to IJ ft. high ; rhizome 

 more or less creeping, descending very deeply, perennial, yellow- 

 whitish ; stem erect, glaucous-green, rather fleshy throughout, simple 

 ■or sparingly branched ; leaves linear-lanceolate, elongated, 3-nerved, 

 amplexicaul, opposite, decussate ; flowers white, turning yellow in 

 drying, subsessile, clustered in the axils, 1- or 2-bracteolate, the 

 bracteoles linear-lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, erect- 

 spreading ; calyx 5- (or occasionally 2- or 3-) lobed ; the lobes erect, 

 raembranous on the margins ; corolla tubular, 5-oleft, rather fleshy, 

 persistent, funnel-shaped ; the lobes erect-spreading, contorted in 

 estivation, ovate, rather blunt, somewhat arched and involute at the 

 apex, rather rigid ; stamens 6, sub-exserted, inserted below the middle 

 of the corolla-tube ; filaments dilated in an arched manner at the 

 base, without intervening teeth, the margin of the arch wavy ; anthers 

 oblong, hastate, shortly bilobed at the base, attached at the sinus, 

 erect, 2-oelled ; the connective produced at the apex into a thin 

 apiculus ; ovary obovoid, unilocular ; ovules very numerous, inserted 

 at the sutures ; style cylindrical, firm, straight, reaching the middle 

 of the anthers ; stigma thick, capitate, closely surrounded by the 

 anthers ; capsule ovoid or obovoid-oblong, covered with the marcescent 

 corolla, unilocular ; placentas sutural ; seeds numerous, comparatively 

 not very small, chestnut-rufous, inserted on the placentas by means 

 of flattened funicles. In sandy-muddy, sparingly herbaceous places, 

 flooded in winter, by the ocean to the south of the city of Benguella, 

 in company with Mollugo hiria Thunb. and Cressa ere.tica L. (Welw. 

 herb. no. 6138), not uncommon ; fl. and fr. end of June 1859. 

 No. 1517. 



MossAMEDES. — A sufErutesoent herb, with yellow root and white 

 flowers. In brackish beds of rushes near the mouth of the river Bero, 

 near Mossamedes, plentiful ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1518. 



6. SWEKTIA L. ; Banth. & Hook. f. Gfen. PI. ii. p. 816. 

 Sweertia Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ., edit. 2, p. 558 (1844). 

 1. S. stellarioides Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 225 (1884). 

 Adenopogon stellarioides Welw. Synopse Explic. p. 27, n. 59 

 :(1862). S. Welwitsehii Engl. Hochgebirgsflora, p. 339 (1892); 

 ' -Gilg in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. p. 110 (1898). 



