75 i LXXXVIII. SOLANACE^. [Datwa 



with short and straight prickles. About negro villages near Sange ; 

 seeds Feb. 1855. Native name, " Jila-Andundo." Coi.l. Carp. 805. 



Bengdella. — An annual, erect, divaricately branched herb, 3 to 

 3J ft. high ; leaves densely pubescent, subtomentose ; flowers white, 

 nauseous in scent also in dry places. In sandy maritime places about 

 Benguella, plentiful ; fl. and fr. end of June 1859. No. 6028. 



MossAMEDES. — An erect, branched herb, 3 ft. high and more ; 

 flowers white. In gravelly places by the banks of the river Bero ; 

 fl. June 1860. No. 6029. 



The Jila-Andundo occurs about dwellings on rubbish heaps ; in 

 Dembos it is called " Mutumbella " ; in both the districts it is used 

 as a narcotic to drug palm wine. When a robbery takes place, the 

 negroes use a mixture of palm wine with the pounded leaves of 

 Jila-Andundo in order to discover the thief : the mixture when 

 drunk produces a condition bordering on madness. 



9. OESTRUM L. ; Benth. <fe Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 904. 



1. C. Parqui L'Herit. Stirpes Nov. fasc. iv. p. 73, t. 36 (1788). 



Prince's Island. — A shrub as tall as a man, with erect small 

 trunk-like stems and yellow flowers ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. According 

 to Welwitsch this appeared indigenous. No. 6063. 



10. NICOTIAN A Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 906. 

 1. N. Tabaeum L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 180 (1753). 



ICOLO B Bengo. — At the banks of the river Bengo, near Funda, 

 wild ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. The leaves range up to 14f in. long. 

 No. 6044. 



LoANDA. — About Imbondeiro dos Lobes, cnltivated and afterwards 

 sporadically and rather rarely half-wild ; fl. June 1858. A broad- 

 leaved form. No. 6045. 



There is in the collection, No, 6073, perhaps another species of this 

 genus, from the Ambeiz district, near the river Quizembo, in fl. and 

 fr. ; it is an annual herb, 1| ft. high, erect, simple, with leaves 

 lanceolate narrowed towards both ends and ranging up to 4 in. long 

 by f in. broad, flowers nearly 2 in. long and with apiculate corolla- 

 lobes. 



11. SCHWENKIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 911. 

 1. S. americana L. Gen. PL, edit. 6, App. p. 567 [577] (1764). 

 Sierra Leone.— In fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5923. 



LoANDA. — An annual herb, stems caespitose, ascending ; flowers 

 somewhat like in shape to those of a lobelia, from greenish to bluish, 

 pentamerous. Very plentiful in pastures near Quiouxe and along 

 nearly the whole coast as far as Ambriz ; fl. and fr. Jan. and May 

 1859. Native name " Casuanze." The whole plant in a decoction is 

 good in cases of chest complaints. No. 5914. In manioc plantations ; 

 fr. Dec. Coll. Carp. 809. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A herb, 1^ ft. high, annual and biennial ; stems 

 ascending or arching-erect ; flowers sordidly whitish-violet-greenish ; 

 corolla-tube long, narrow, slightly curved ; the limb subequally 

 6-lobed ; the sinus-appendages exceeding the lobes, clavate, obtuse ; 

 stamens 4 or 5 {!), only two of them with fully developed anthers ; 

 style filiform ; stigma capitate ; capsule bivalved at the apex, 2-celled ; 

 seeds numerous, angular. In rather dry places at roadsides, abundant ; 

 near Sange, fl. and fr. Aug. 1856. No. 6898. In sunny sandy places 



