770 Lxxxix. scrophulaeiacEjE. [Melasma 



purple nerves, spreading at the time of the open ilower ; stamens 4, 

 moderately curved ; filaments densely bearded with long hairs ; 

 anther-cells distinct ; ovary globose, style clavate, thick ; stigma 

 on a level with the stamens ; capsule pyriform, with a furrow on 

 each side; 2-celled, the cells many-seeded. 



MosSAMEDES. — In Sandy places at the river Bero near Oavalheiros, 

 sparingly, at the roots of Cotula or similar plant; fl. and fr. 27 June 

 1869. No. 6812. 



8. M. pictum Hiern, sp. n. 



An annual, parasitical herb, 4 to 12 in. high, scattered with 

 short whitish hispid hairs, erect ; rhizome with bright orange- 

 coloured fibres ; stem naked and bright orange-coloured at the 

 base, hispidulous ; branches erect-patent ; leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate, ranging up to 1|^ in. long by \ in. broad, the lower ones 

 opposite, the upper and floral ones alternate, all subdentate, 

 obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, sessile or subsessile, 

 herbaceous-green ; flowers about ^ in. long, subsessile, solitary in 

 the axils and gradually arranged in terminal spikes ; calyx broadly 

 campanulate, about \ in. long, 5-oleft halfway down ; the iobes 

 broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse; the tube bibracteate at the 

 base, the bracts chordiform, about —^ to •— in. long ; corolla cam- 

 panulate, membranous, scarcely bilabiate, saffron-coloured ; the 

 5 segments each marked with three reddish lines or nerves, sub- 

 equal, rounded-obtuse, the lowest one a little larger than the rest; 

 stamens 4, didynamous ; the filaments shaggy from the middle 

 to the apex ; the anthers 2-celled; the cells unequal, bearded, 

 attenuated upwards, the larger one embracing the smaller in a 

 half -spiral ; ovary 2-celled, the dissepiment placentiferous ; style 

 simple, nearly straight ; stigma longer than the style, thickened, 

 tongue-shaped, decurrent on both sides of the style, hooked- 

 recurved ; cap=ule subglobose, apiculate at the apex with the style 

 or its remains. 



HuiLLA. — In swampy pastures between LopoUo and the Monino, 

 parasitical on the roots of Leguminosse and Convolvulaceae ; fl. and fr. 

 middle of May 1860. No. 5799. 



16. GERAEDIINA Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. 507, t. x. fig. g— n. 

 I. G. angolensis Engl., I.e. 



Gerardia sp., 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. iii. 2, pp. 232, 234 (1898). 



HrriLLA. — An erect or ascending bright green herb ; roots stolo- 

 niferous ; stems reddish ; flowers purple-violet or violet-blue. By the 

 Lopollo and Humpata streams, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and 

 April 1860. No. 5846. 



17. MICRARGERIA Bentb. ; Benth. & Hk. f. Gen. PI. ii. 971. 

 1. M. scopiformis Bug. Pfl..Ost.-Afr., C, p. 359 (1895). 

 Gerardianella scopiformis Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. 



p. 229, t. 36 (1861). 



PuNGo AxDONGO.— An erect herb, 2 ft. high, branched like a broom; 

 root apparently perennial. In marshy places near Quibanga, plentiful ; 

 fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5858. 



