68 xxiii. malvace.3E. [Malache 



Huilla. — In the grassy parts of Monino, scattered among shrubs 

 and trees ; fl. wine-yellow, also in fr. Dec. 1859. No. 4926. Near Eme, 

 at the skirts of the forest composed of " Panda " (Berlinia paniculata 

 Benth., Brachystegia spicceformis Benth., etc.) ; fl. wine-yellow, also in 

 fr. beginning of Jan. 1860. No. 4925. 



2. M. hirsuta O. Kuntze, I.e. 



Pavonia hirsuta Guill. & Perr. ; Masters, I.e., p. 191. 



Mossamedes.— A herb, 3 to 4 ft. high ; flowers (1| in. long) of a 

 straw-yellow colour, inside purple at the base ; calyx J in. long ; in 

 thickets alongside the banks of the river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. 

 No. 4935. 



3. M. Schimperiana O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 71. 

 Pavonia Schimperiana Hochst. ; Masters, I.e., p. 192. 



Var. obtusiloba. Leaves clothed with short hairs on both surfaces 

 and on the lower paler surface also with longer hairs ; lobes broad, 

 mostly obtuse. 



Golungo Alto. — An undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, or rarely higher, 

 branched throughout from the base to the apex ; leaves broad, 5-lobed, 

 pellucid-punctate, the older ones pendulous ; flowers white, rather 

 large, quickly withering ; calyx rather deeply 5-dentate than 5-clef t, 

 campanulate, teeth triangular, valvate in aestivation ; carpels 5, obovoid- 

 trigonous, with 3 long awns at the apex, awns barbed with reflexed 

 prickles ; not abundant, at the shaded margins of streams in wooded 

 places, by the road to Mussengue-Quiapoze ; fl. and fr. end of June 1855. 

 No. 4906. An undershrub, woody at base, 3 to 4 ft. high, branched, 

 with white flowers ; in the rather moist wooded parts of Mata de 

 Quisuculo, sporadic, fl. April 1856. No. 4907. An undershrub, with 

 the habit of Urena, 3 to 4 ft. high, branched, with large lobed leaves 

 shaped like those of Hibiscus, and rather large white flowers ; at the 

 margin of Quiapoze, by the road to Mussengue, June 1856. Coll. 

 Carp. 248. 



Mossamedes. — A much-branched herb, 4 ft. high ; amidst shrubs 

 near the river Maiombo ; fr. June 1860. No. 4941. 



7. KOSTELETSKYA Presl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 206. 



1. K. Buttneri Giirke in Verh. Bot. Brand, xxxi. p. 92 (1889). 



Pungo Andongo. — By the river Cuanza at Sansamanda ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. 1857. No. 4900. Mr. E. G. Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. 

 p. 74 (1894), considered this as probably a stouter form of his K.flava 

 there described. 



8. HIBISCUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 207. 



1. H. vitifolius L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 696 (1753); Masters in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 197. 



Loanda. — Fl. and fr. No. 5236. A herb ; stem 2 to 4 ft. high, 

 diffuse ; branches and leaves stinging-hispid ; flowers of moderate 

 size, petals of a deep-sulphur colour, atro-sanguineous on the inside 

 from the base almost to the middle ; capsule broadly 5-winged ; in 

 thickets near Alto das Cruzes, rather rare ; fl. and fr. middle of March 

 1858. No. 5239 and Coll. Cakp. 256. 



Pungo Andongo. — Cabondo ; fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 5246. 



Mossamedes. — A herb, 3 to 4 or sometimes 5 ft. high ; stems 

 branched ; leaves various in shape ; in thickets near the banks of the 

 river Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 4932. 



