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narrow erect spicate leafy or bracteate racemes terminating 

 the stem and branches ; pedicels ranging up to \ in. long, the 

 upper ones shorter ; flower-buds obovoid, ^ in. long ; in the young 

 flower the calyx funnel-shaped, equally toothed, \ in. long ; the 

 teeth deltoid, acute, ^^^ in. long ; corolla whitish rosy, tubular ; 

 the throat dilated ; the limb bilabiate, the upper lip bilobed, the 

 lower lip trilobed, the tube naked within and purple -striate near 

 the base ; stamens 4, didynamous, included, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube; filaments fiHform, naked; anthers bilocular, the 

 cells separate and diverging, the smaller one sub-effete, or quite 

 sterile ; ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, attenuated ; stigma some- 

 what club-shaped, incurved-nodding. 



HuiLLA. — In damp pastures and swampy thickets, at an elevation 

 of 5300 ft. in Morro de Monino ; in flower- bud, 7 April 1860. 

 No. 5830. In damp meadows near LopoUo ; fl.-bud middle of March 

 1860. No. 5831. 



4. S. simplex Hoohst. in Flora xxvii. p. 27 (1844). 

 Raphidophyllufn simplex Hochst., I.e., xxiv. p. 667 (1841). 



Gerdaria Dregeana Presl, Bot .Bemerk. p. 91 (1844). S. Dregeana 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 522 (1846). 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A herb, 1 to 2J ft. high ; rootstock perennial, 

 thick, almost tubercular, very hard ; stems numerous, erect, green ; 

 leaves linear, adpressed to the stem, green; flowers rosy. In the drier 

 and more elevated declivities among the mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Qaeta ; fl. and fr. at end of Aug. 1855. No. 5904. 



Ambaca. — An erect branched herb, apparently perennial ; stem 

 angular ; leaves linear ; flowers rosy, in shape resembling those of 

 a Verbascum. In hilly rocky places between Izanga and N-gombe, 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 5913. 



PuNGO Andongc— At Cabinda in Mata Lucala; fl. and fr. No. 6852. 



HuiLLA. — -Apparently annual ; flowers purple. Among heath (cf . 

 Blceria setulosa, Wei w. no. 2558), on a declivity from Morro de LopoUo 

 towards Humpata ; fl. April 1860. Only one specimen, very doubt- 

 fully referred here ; it has more acute calyx-lobes than the others. 

 No. 5842. 



5. S. ramosa Hochst., I.e., xxvii. p. 27 (1844). 

 Raphidophyllum ramosum Hochst., I.e., xxiv. p. 668 (1841). 

 Cazengo. — A suffrutescent herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, erect, pyramidally 



branched at the top ; flowers coppery purple as those of Verbascum 

 phosniceum L. In dry bushy places, at the base of the Muxaula 

 mountains, rather rare ; fl. and young fr. June 1855. No. 5911. 



PuNGO Andongo. — At Sansamanda ; fl. and fr. 30 April 1857. 

 No. 5864. A herb, almost an undershrub, woooy at the base with the 

 wood whitish-straw coloured, 4 ft. high and more ; rootstock tuber- 

 cular-woody, biennial or triennial ; stem erect, hard, branched from 

 the middle to the apex ; branches spreading, virgate, all ending in 

 racemes of rosy-purplish flowers ; placentas of an orange-briok-red 

 colour as in S. lanata. In rocky thickets near Cabondo in the 

 presidium ; fl. and fr. 3 May 1857. No. 5865. Without fl. or fr. 

 Deo. 1866. Apparently this species. No. 5866. 



6. S. Welwitsohii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 66 (1893). 

 HuiLLA. — In the more elevated muddy-rocky pastures, flooded in 



