Polygala] xiv. polygalace^e. 45 



leading from Ponte de Luxillo towards Cambambe, sparingly; fl. May 

 1857. No. 1012. Interior sepals green ; corolla slightly rose-coloured ; 

 frequent and gregarious in marshy places near the lake of Quibinda, 

 then nearly dry, in company with Utrkularia exilis Oliv. ; fl. in the 

 rainy season, March 1857. No. 1013. 



Huilla. — Annual, erect, 1 to 5 in. high; leaves elongate-linear, 

 «rect, rather fleshy, purplish-green above, 1-furrowed, yellowish- 

 lepidote beneath, midrib keel-shaped, thick, bright purple ; flowers 

 rose-coloured, densely spicate-racemose, exceeded by the involucrate 

 leaves ; in dampish pastures of Morro de Lopollo, at an elevation of 

 5500 ft. ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 1026. 



/? ovatifolia Ohodat, I.e. 



Pungo Andongo. — A small annual pale green herb ; stems some- 

 times simple, at other times branched, very slender, tenacious ; flowers 

 whitish ; in shortly grassy marshes of the drying lake of Quibinda ; 

 fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 1014. A small annual herb ; leaves mem- 

 branous, subglaucous-green ; flowers variegated with green and purple ; 

 fruit ellipsoidal, often emarginate at the apex ; seeds covered all over 

 -with rather rigid appressed hairs ; in grassy thickets between Quisonde 

 and Condo ; fl. and fr. end of March 1857. No. 1015. 



9. P. Chodatiana Hiern, sp. n. 



A small annual herb ; stem short, densely branched from the 

 base; branches crowded, ascending, forming little tufts, hirsute, 

 leafy, somewhat striate towards the apex ; leaves narrowly oval 

 or obovate-oblong, rounded or sub-apiculate at the apex, more or 

 less wedgeshaped to the shortly petiolate base, scattered with 

 hairs especially on the narrowly revolute margin and on the 

 midrib, green above, rather paler beneath, £ to 1 in. long by 

 i to | in. broad ; racemes terminal and axillary, § to | in. long,. 

 ^ to ^ in. thick, shortly pedunculate, not involucrate, subglobose 

 or ovoid or oblong, mostly strobiliform, densely flowered; bracts 

 small, persistent, spreading, lanceolate, acute, scattered with 

 hairs ; flowers -J- to \ in. long, shortly pedicellate, more or less 

 nodding or renexed, lilac-greenish, turning reddish, capitate ; 

 pedicels Jj- to ^ in. long, arching, thinly hairy ; sepals persistent ; 

 anterior sepals elliptical, ciliolate, free, T \ in. long; posterior 

 sepal elliptical, T x ff in. long, hairy on the back and margins ; wing- 

 sepals broadly obovate, broader than the capsule, rounded above, 

 narrowed at the base to a short claw, somewhat hairy on the 

 margin and along the midrib at the back, £ in. long by -| in. 

 broad, with venation sparingly anastomosing ; keel crested, -^ in. 

 long, clawed at the base, hooded at the apex, hairy along the 

 back ; crest bilobed, with plurifid lobes ; upper petals about Jg in. 

 long, oblong, obtuse ; anthers not sessile on the staminal tube ; 

 style long, bent, slender ; lower stigma inconspicuous ; capsule 

 obovoid, | in. long, ciliate; seeds oblong, ^ in. long, hairy; 

 caruncle not falcate, short. 



Ambaca. — In wooded, shortly grassy, rather elevated pastures near 

 the great cave of Puri Oacarambola, sporadic ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 1001. Pamba, Oct. 1858 ; fl. and fr. Coll. Carp. 229. 



Nearly allied to P. Welwitschil Chodat, but not glabrescent. 



