Eko-etico] Lxxxvi. boragine/E. 717 



arranged in terminal scorpioid spreading pilose-pnberulous cymes 

 of 8 in. in diameter and 5 in. in length ; calyx hemispherical, 

 Jj- in. long, puberulous, 5-cleft ; the lobes deltoid ; corolla broadly 

 funnel-shaped ; the tube about equalling the calyx ; the lobes of 

 the limb 5, ov^al-oblong, obtuse, about i in. long, reflected; 

 stamens 5, inserted at the corolla-throat between the lobes, 

 exserted, glabrous ; filaments ^ in. long ; anthers tjV i"- long ; 

 style glabrous, shortly bifid, Jj- in. long ; ovary ovoid, -J^ in. long, 

 4-celled. 



Pkixce's Island. — In a wooded place in the maritime part of the 

 island ; only one tree seen, and on this only one branchlet in fl., Sept. 

 1853. No. 5465. 



This is related to E. cyiaosa Thonn., but differs by larger and broad- 

 based leaves with pits in the axils of the lateral veins beneath. 



3. COLDENIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 841. 



1. G. prommbens L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 125 (1753). 



C. angolensis Welvv. Apontam. p. 591, n. 104. 



Bakra do Daxde. — In clayey-sandy and muddy places, flooded in 

 summer but dry at the time, about lakes on the right bank of the 

 river Dande, near Bumbo, plentiful ; fr. Sept. 1858. No. 5445. 



Bakra do Bengo. — An annual prostrate herb, bright green in the 

 living state ; leaves not so plicate as in specimens growing in dry 

 places ; flowers white. By pools in hilly places near Cacuaco ; fl. and 

 fr. March 1854. No. 5438. 



LOANDA. — An annual herb, divaricately branched from the crown of 

 the root ; branches distichously ramulose, 2 to 4 ft. long, decumbent 

 or even adpressed to the ground ; leaves distichous, unequal-sided, 

 coarsely dentate, the nerves running out towards the sinuses between 

 the teeth ; corolla 4-cleft, white ; stamens 4. Plentiful but only in a 

 few places about drying-up pools, near Represa de Luis Gomes ; fl. 

 and fr. Nov. 1853 and April 1854. No. 6436. An annual, prostrate 

 herb, ashy-hoary with adpressed rigid white hairs ; leaves soft, 

 unequal-sided, obovate-olong, deeply crenate, almost crenate-lobulate ; 

 flowers white, very fugacious, not uncommonly extra-axillary, of 

 various sizes on the same plant ; calyx and corolla always 4-cleft ; 

 corolla-lobes obtuse, somewhat spreading at the time of the flower ; 

 corolla whitish cream in colour, only in the middle of the branchlets 

 of the fully developed stem, almost shorter than the calyx or equally 

 long ; germen glabrous. In muddy dried-up parts of rain-pools near 

 Alto das Crazes, plentiful but only in a few spots, flowering from 

 April to July and again in Nov. and Dec. ; fl. and fr. May and July 

 1858 ; at Represa de Luis Gomes, fl. and fr. 14 July 1858. No. 5437. 

 In hot places about dried-up marshes, from 20 to 25 miles towards 

 the east from Loanda ; fr. Sept. 1858. Coll. Carp. 767. 



4. HELIOTROPIUM Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 ii. p. 843. 



1. H. supinum L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 130 (1753). 



MossAMEDES. — In Sandy places by the banks of the river Bero, 

 plentiful ; not in full fl., Aug. 1859. No. 5286. An annual, prostrate, 

 much-branched herb, green in the living state, quickly turning hoary 

 in drying ; flowers white. In rather dry places, in company with 

 species of Arthocnemum (Welw. herb. no. 6329) and Heleochloa 



