70 xxiii. malvace.e. [Hibiscus 



lanceolate acute pilose lobes nearly or quite equalling the fruit ; 

 petals oval, of moderate size, 1^ in. long, sulphur-yellow, with a 

 dark-purple spot at the base ; staminal column § in. long ; fruit 

 f to | in. long ; carpels hairy outside, narrowed at the apex into 

 a strong apiculus ; seeds tubercled, not cottony. 



Loanda. — In shrubby stations near Maiango do Povo ; fl. and fr. 

 March 1858, rather rare. No. 5240 and Coll. Oaep. 255. 



Baeea do Dande. — Among tall herbs, by the marshy banks of the 

 river Dande, near Bombo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 5249. 



This and the following species belong to the section Ketmia, and 

 stand near H. physaloides G. & P. 



The following No. may belong here ; it differs from the type by 

 its leaves being unlobed or nearly so : — 



Benguella. — In sandy bushy stations between the city of Benguella 

 and the river Catumbella, rather scarce ; fl. (about li in. long) and fr. 

 June 1859. No. 4934. 



6. H. andongensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect herb, 3 ft. high, beset on its stem and foliage with 

 hispid violently stinging hairs ; stem branched, terete ; branchlets 

 tomentose and hispid. Leaves (of the branchlets) deeply palmati- 

 lobed, almost like Cannabis, cordate at the base, thinly mem- 

 branous, dark-green and scattered with stellate forked and 

 simple hairs above, paler glandular and scattered with stellate 

 forked and simple hairs beneath (but without white prominent 

 glands in the axils of the primary nerves) ; lobes 3 to 7, mostly 

 oblanceolate, serrate-dentate or incise-lobulate, lj to 4 in. long, 

 | to 1| in. broad, acute at the apex, all except the basal ones 

 more or less wedge-shaped at the base, the terminal one rather 

 the longest and the basal ones shortest ; petiole equalling or longer 

 than the lamina, 1| to 6 in. long; stipules filiform, A in. long. 

 Flowers axillary and solitary or congested in quasi-terminal 

 clusters ; peduncle 1 in. long more or less, densely pilose-hispid, 

 jointed near the top ; epicalyx consisting of about 15 filiform 

 pilose-hispid segments about half as long as the fruit-calyx ; calyx 

 in fruit deeply 5-lobed, pilose outside, about 1 in. long, lobes 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, | in. long ; fruit slightly nodding, about 

 equalling the calyx, pilose outside, carpels prolonged into an acute 

 apex ; seeds tubercled, not cottony. 



Pungo Andongo. — In the stony wooded parts of Mata de Pungo ; 

 sporadic ; fr. middle of April 1857. No. 5257. 



7. H. rhabdotospermus Garcke in Bot. Zeit. vii. p. 839 (1849) j 

 Masters, I.e., p. 200 ; var. mossamedensis. 



An erect or ascending annual herb, 1 to 3 ft. high, or occa- 

 sionally when growing amidst shrubs taller, somewhat branched. 

 Branches terete, rather slender, clothed with short hairs and 

 scattered with longer stellate hairs, pallid, not prickly. Leaves 

 ovate, acute at the apex, rounded or somewhat narrower at the 

 base, membranous, crenate-serrate except near the base, not lobed, 

 with a few scattered hairs on both surfaces, dark green above, 



