Schicenkict,'] lxxxvhi. solanace^. 755 



in manioc plantations, near Aguas Doces ; fl. and fr. June 1855. 

 No. 5901. A herb with the habit of Lobelia or Cephalostigma. By 

 roadsides near Sange among low bushes ; fl. and fr. No. 5902. 

 Between Trombeta and Cabondo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 5903. 



LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACEJi. 



1. APTOSIMUM Burch. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 927. 



1. A. lineare Marl. & Engl, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. 250 (1888). 



MossAMEDES. — A low undershrub, scarcely 9 in. high, very densely 

 caespitose, forming clumps 1 to 2 ft. in diameter after the manner of 

 the spiny species of Astragalus, with the petioles spiny after the fall 

 of the leaf -blades, hard ; flowers sublabiate, blue ; style simple, with 

 a capitellate-truncate stigma ; fruit woody, bivalved, bilocular, the 

 valves bifid at the apex, the cells many-seedwd, the seeds black and 

 scrobiculate. In sandy-stony places on a red-sand rock at the base 

 of Serra de Montes Negros, rather rare ; fl. and fr. 10 Aug. 1859. 

 No. 5817. In the mountainous rocky parts of Caldeira do Inferno, 

 damaged by sheep ; fr. June 1860. No. 5818. 



2. A. decumbens Schinz in Verb. Bot. Brand, xxxi. 184(1890). 



Bumbo. — In neglected fields after cultivation of Arachis hypogcea, 

 plentiful ; fl. andfr. Oct. 1859. No. 5804. 



HuiLLA. — In pastures flooded in the rainy season, near LopoUo 

 towards Empalanca ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859. A less hairy form. 

 No. 5803. 



3. A. Welwitschii Hiern, sp. n. 



An undershrub, branched from the base ; branches decumbent 

 or ascending, 4 to 12 in. long, leafy and densely pubescent above 

 with pale subfulvous gland-tipped spreading hairs, more or less 

 leafless sub-glabrate and scattered with dusky specks below, spiny 

 chiefly below ; spines -^ to 1 in. long, straight ; leaves linear- 

 oblanceolate, pointed at the apex, much attenuate to the sessile 

 or subsessile base, subscabrid, closely beset with short rather stiff 

 gland-tipped hairs, entire and narrowly revolute on the cartila- 

 ginous margins, 1 to 1|- in. long by -^^ to ^ in. broad ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, subsessile ; bracts |- to i in. long, linear, hairy ; 

 calyx -J- to \ in. long, deeply lobed ; the lobes linear, hairy outside, 

 glabrous inside ; corolla f to f in. long, membranous veiny, 

 glandular-hairy outside ; the tube about |^ in. in diameter, much 

 narrowing towards the base ; filaments of the fertile stamens 

 slender, glabrous, \ in. long ; fertile anthers 2, imilocular, some- 

 what hispid or ciliate, y\ ^7 iV i"^- '> ^^/l® nearly i in. long ; 

 capsule |- in. long, shortly hairy outside ; young seeds papillose. 



MossAMEDBS. — In gravelly places by the river Maiombo at a place 

 called A Maiombo ; in late fl. June 1860. No. 5816. 



This should be compared with ^4. arenarium Engl., I.e., and A. 

 scaberrimum Schinz, I.e., p. 185, the types of neither of which have I 

 seen ; from the former it differs by ttie size and other characters of 

 the foliage, and from the latter by its less scabrid scarcely acute leaves. 



