46 xiv. polygalace^e. [Polygala 



10. P. erioptera DC. Prodr. i. p. 326 (1824); Ohodat, I.e., 

 p. 342, t. xxviii., fig. 1-4. 



P. triflora Oliv., I.e., p. 128 (non L.), var. a. diffusa Oliv., I.e., 

 p. 129. 



Var. angolensis Chodat, I.e., ii. p. 344. 



Loanda.— Some specimens suffruticose, others herbaceous. Fre- 

 quent in hilly grassy places around the city 6*f Loanda, namely at 

 Penedo, Conceicao, Zamba grande, Boa Vista, etc. ; fl. and fr. April, 

 July and August 1854. No. 992. A small annual herb, erect, in old 

 age usually decumbent and almost suffruticose ; flowers greenish-rose- 

 coloured ; a stricter form with more elongated and narrower leaves ; 

 frequent on sandy-stony and clayey-sandy hills, also in nearly dry 

 pools, especially near Maianga de Povo, etc. ; fl. at end of Jan. and in 

 Feb. 1858. No. 9926. 



Ambaca. — An annual herb, with white-purplish flowers ; frequent 

 in exposed stony and adjacent neglected cultivated places around 

 N-gombe ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 1000. In dry exposed stations, near 

 Ambaca, Oct. 1856. Coll. Cakp. 230. 



Pungo Andongo. — In clayey stony places of the fortress of Pungo 

 Andongo, very sporadic (no specimen separated for the British Museum) ; 

 fl. Dec. 1856. No. 1003. 



11. P. Myrtillopsis Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 130; 

 vix Chodat, I.e., ii. p. 491. 



Huilla. — Suffruticose, with a vaccinioid habit ; stems patently 

 hairy ; branches ascending from the thick many-headed root, caespitose, 

 pubescent, a palm high or shorter ; leaves oblong-elliptic, rather 

 rigidly chartaceous, bright herbaceous-green, on both sides closely 

 scattered with slender elevated veins ; margins ciliate ; petiole very 

 short, alate-flat ; racemes few-flowered, flowers nodding, bracts and 

 bracteoles persistent ; interior sepals obliquely obovate-cuneate, 

 attenuate below, green, ciliolate ; keel crested with rather long fimbria?, 

 whitish-violet, soon pale-yellowish ; capsule broadly obcordate, ciliate 

 at the margin, one cell rather prominent at the apex. Seeds cuneate- 

 oblong, covered with rather rigid dense white shining straight hairs ; 

 strophiole large, yellow-brown. Rather rare, in sandy-clayey hilly 

 thinly bushy places, near Lopolla, in company with species of 

 Gnidium and Thesium ; fl. Nov. 1859. No. 1029. 



The specimen in Herb. Kew. received from Lisbon under this name 

 is P. rarifolia DO. 



12. P. huillensis Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 133; 

 Chodat, I.e., i. p. 74, ii. p. 366, tab. xxviii. fig. 43-45. 



Htjilla. — Suffruticose ; stems radiately decumbent, rather rigid, 

 fragile ; leaves and flowers rather fleshy ; peduncles acutely angular ; 

 interior sepals green ; keel of the corolla violet-coloured, crested ; 

 capsule short, emarginate ; in elevated sandy-clayey stony pastures, 

 between Lopollo and Humpata, fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. No. 1030. 

 Stems numerous, distorted ; leaves rather fleshy ; interior sepals 

 green ; corolla bright blue, keel crested ; in the denser sandy thickets 

 between Mumpulla and Nene, at an elevation of 4500 ft., in company 

 with species of Thesium etc., fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 1031. A short- 

 leaved form, var. buxifolia "Welw., intermixed with but rarer than 

 No. 1031, gathered at the same time in flower. No. 10316. 



