Heliotropium] lxxxvi. boraginb^. 719 



IcoLO B Bengo. — In places flooded in summer near Funda : fl. and 

 fr. Sept. 1857. No. 5435. 



LoAND,\. — Represa do Luis Gomes at Alto das Cruzes ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1854. No. 5439. Annual; flowers whitish. In damp dryiug-up 

 places near Imbondeiro dos Lobos; fl. and fr. March 1858. No. SL42. 

 An erect, annual herb, with the habit of a Myosotis, branched from 

 the base ; primary stem straight, erect ; lateral branches ascending ; 

 flowers whitish. In nearly dried-up marshy places near Alto das 

 Cruzes, and at the margins of lakes (near Funda); plentiful; fl. and 

 fr. 14 April 1858. No. 5441. An annual herb, pleasantly green in 

 the living state, quickly turning grey-hoary when dried ; stem 

 oblique ; branches spreading ; flowers white. By drying-up pools 

 between Bemposta and Camama ; fl. and fr. July 1858. No. 5440. 



Cazengo. — An erect, hispid-scabrid, annual herb, with the habit of 

 an Echinospermum, 1^ to 3 ft. high ; flowers whitish. At the outskirts 

 of primaeval forests near the banks of the river Luinha, but only in a 

 few spots ; fl. and fr. end of Dec. 1854. No. 5447. 



MossAMEDES. — A deoumbent-ascending, hoary herb, with white 

 flowers. In sandy maritime and hilly dry places at Praia da Amelia, 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5290. In the sandy bed of the 

 river Bero; fl. Aug. 1859. No. 5289. In gravelly places by the 

 banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. 14 June 1860. No. 5288. 



6. H. strigosum WUld. Sp. PI. i. p. 743 (1797). 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect herb, with the aspect of an Echino- 

 ipermum ; flowers from whitish to slightly yellowish. In the hot 

 parts of Pedras de Guinga, plentiful ; fl. and f r. Jan. and March 1857. 

 No. 5451. An annual herb, 4 in. or scarcely a foot high, rather rigid, 

 of a pleasant bright green colour in the living state, at length turning 

 hoary in drying ; flowers whitish ; style apparently terminal. In 

 hot wooded rather sandy parts of Mutollo, by Pedras de Guinga, 

 in company with myosotis-like Eubiacese ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 

 No. 5454. At Pedras de Guinga, Ouanza ; fl. and fr. No. 5455. 



MossAMEDES. — A shrublet, 1 to 2 ft. high ; stems numerous, woody 

 at the base, the wood remarkably yellow; epidermis whitish, separating 

 in flakes ; leaves linear, rather rigid. In red-sandy rocky places at 

 the base of Serra de Monies Negros ; fl.-bud 10 Aug. 1859. No. 5299. 

 No notes ; in fl. No. 5298. 



7. H. erosum Lehm. in Neue Sch. Naturf. Ges. Halle, iii. 2, 

 p. 15 (1817). 



Cape de Veede Islands. — An annual herb ; stem erect or 

 usually ascending ; leaves pleasantly green ; flowers whitish or rarely 

 pale yellowish. ■ In uncultivated rocky places about Cidade de Praia 

 in the island of St. Jago, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1861. No. 5470. 



This plant bears a very close resemblance to H. undulatum Vahl. 



8. H. indicum L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 130 (1753). 

 Heliophyimm ivdicvm, DC. Prodi-, ix. p. 556 (1845); Welw. 



Apontam. p. 589, n. 65 (1859). 



LiBONGO. — A pleasing herb, but scentless, with deep green leaves 

 and whitish violet or quite violet -coloured flowers. About Banza de 

 Libongo, very plentiful ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 5458. 



IcoLO e Bengo. — An erect herb, 3 ft. high, branched above. In 

 sandy moist places at the river Zenza near Tandambondo ; fl. and fr. 

 Sept. 1854. No. 5427. 



LoANDA. — An annual, much-branched herb of 2 to 4 ft., in shady 



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