774 Lxxxix. scrophulariacea:. [Sopubia 



summer, in Serra Oiahoya, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Feb. March and April 

 1867. No. 5841. 



7. S. cana Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. p. 29, t. 146 (1864). 

 S. angokiisis Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 67 (1893). 



HuiLLA, — Flowers reddish purple or bluish purple. Among low- 

 bushes in pastures flooded in the rainy season, plentiful ; fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1860. No. 5843. Ivantala ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. The 

 specimens stain paper a primrose-yellow colour. No. 5844. 



Our specimens differ from the type of Harvey's species by rather 

 larger flowers, but some from the Transvaal, doubtless belonging to 

 the species, have flowers of about the same size as ours. 



8. S. lanata Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 67 (1893). 



PuNGO Andongo A perennial plant ; stem densely leafy, straight. 



In damp bushy places at the banks of the Luxillo streams in declivities 

 towards the river Cuanza ; without fl. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 5857- 

 An erect, leafy, annual or biennial herb; stem about the middle 

 branched like a broom ; flowers rosy. In moist bushy pastures near 

 Quibinda, plentiful, and very rarely in the rocky parts of the 

 praesidium ; fl. March, fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 5863. In Pedras 

 de Gruinga, in fl. No. 5856. 



9. S. argentea Hiern, sp. n. 



Suffruticescent, 9 to 18 in. high ; rootstock perennial, woody, 

 giving ofE long wiry fibres ; stems several, erect or ascending, 

 simple or branched chiefly near the base, woody and glabrescent 

 below, herbaceous-wiry and silvery silky-tomentose above, leafy j 

 leaves lanceolate or elliptical-linear, pointed at the apex, some- 

 what narrowed to the sessile base, more or less silvery silky- 

 tomentose on both faces, entire, narrowly revolute on the lateral 

 margins, crowded, ^ to li in. long ; flowers axillary, shortly 

 pedunculate ; peduncles ranging up to f in. long at least in fruit, 

 bibracteolate at the apex ; bracteoles rather more than ^ in. long, 

 like the leaves but linear and smaller ; calyx nearly ^ in. long, 

 5-cleft half-way down, silvery silky outside ; the lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, acute ; the tube glabrous inside ; corolla about ^ in. in 

 diameter, membranous, glabrous, the limb very short ; the limb 

 rotate at the top of the calyx-tube ; stamens 4, exserted, scarcely 

 didynamous ; anthers 2-celled, one cell very narrow ; style 

 exserted ; capsule ^ to i in. long, scarcely equalling the persistent 

 calyx. 



Htjilla. — In pastures at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., by little 

 forests of Proteaceae, among the Serra de Neva mountains in Morro 

 de Lopollo, rather plentiful ; fl. and fr. April and May 1860. No. 5845- 



21. STELLULARIA Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. p. 12, 

 t. 1318 (1880). 



Benthamistella 0. Kuntze, E,ev. Gen. PI. ii. p. 458 (1891). 



Dr. Kuntze, I.e., rejects Bentham's name on account of 

 Stdlvlaria L. Syst. Nat., edit, 6, ii. p. 106 (1748) ; this latter is, 

 however, Stellaria L. (1753). 



1. S. nigrescens Benth., I.e. 



Benthamistella nigricans 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



