Abutilon] xxm. Malvaceae. 67 



Mossamedes. — An undershrub, woody at base, 4 to 5 ft. high, with 

 deep orange-coloured flowers ; Cavalheiros, fl. Aug. 1859. No. 4944. 



The following No. is doubtfully placed under this species : — 

 Mossamedes. — A somewhat shrubby herb, 3 to 3£ ft. high, branched 

 from the base, with soft rather flaccid glaucous-tomentellous foliage 

 and white flowers ; in thickets near the river Bero, sparingly ; fl. July 

 1859. No. 4945. 



7. A. fruticosum. Guill. & Perr., Fl. Senegamb. Tent. p. 73 

 (1830—1831); Masters, I.e., p. 187. 



Loanda. — A little erect shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, much branched, with 

 white tomentose leaves and deep-yellow flowers ; in moist stations" 

 covered with low brushwood near Bemposta, sparingly ; fl. and fr. 

 July 1858. No. 4967. Also fl. and fr., No. 4981. 



5. TJRENA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 205. 



1. U. lobata, L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 692 (1753); Masters in Oliv. 

 PI. Trop. Afr. i. p. 189. 



Var. reticulata Gurke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi. p. 376 (1893). 



Sierra Leone. — No. 4913. 



Prince's Island.— Fr. Sept. 1853. No. 4914. 



Ambriz. — An undershrub 2 to 4 ft. high, woody at base, sparingly 

 and patently branched ; flowers rose-purplish ; the inner bark is 

 everywhere used for the manufacture of ropes ; in hilly and bushy 

 stations near Mubango in the Ambriz territory ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853 ; 

 native name " Quibosa c'ofele." No. 4917. 



Golungo Alto. — In exposed places, among beds of Imperata arundi- 

 ■nacea Cyr. (" Senu "), near Sange, in fruit, Dec. 1854. No. 4915. An 

 undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. or higher ; the stems afford sufficiently tough 

 fibres for the manufacture of ropes ; abundant in the lower thickets, 

 especially on the drier hills, near Sange and at Ponte de Luiz Simoes ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1855 ; native name " Oaquibosa," " Cajbosa," or perhaps 

 better, " Ca-Nbosa." No. 4918. In cultivated places an undershrub, 

 and in aboriginal thickets a shrub of 3 to 4 ft., branched in a divaricate 

 manner : the inner bark is very tough, and used for the manufacture 

 of ropes ; foliage varying in shape and indumentum according to the 

 station and age of the plant ; flowers violet-purple, very quickly wither- 

 ing ; abundant, by wooded thickets and about native villages, almost 

 everywhere ; fl. and fr. almost throughout the year ; Sange, 7 May 

 1856 ; native name " Oaquibosa." No. 4912. Fr. end of Sept. 1856. 

 Coll. Carp. 2. A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, the branches furnish good 

 fibre for the manufacture of string ; Sobado de Bumbo, Sept. 1856. 

 Coll. Carp. 9i. An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high ; fibre of the branches 

 very tough ; seeds forwarded to Welwitsch in 1859. Coll. Carp. 247. 



Pctngo Andongo. — An undershrub, 4 ft. high, with numerous 

 branches ; in secondary thickets, near Quitage, not abundant ; fl. and 

 fr. March 1857. No. 4916. 



6. MALACHE B.C. Vogel in Trew, PI. Sel. Ehret, Dec. viii. 

 p. 50, t. 90 (1772). Pavonia Cav. (1786); Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. i. p. 205. 



1. M. macrophylla O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. i. p. 70 (1891). 



Pavonia maorophytta~E. Mey. ; Mast, in Oliv. Fl.Trop. Afr.i. p. 190. 



Pungo Andongo. — Fl. and fr. No. 4987. 



