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rather paler and with a few brown depressed points (glands 1) 

 chiefly between nerves at the base beneath, 1£ to 3| in. long, 

 ^ to 1| in. broad; petiole \\ to 3 in. long, pubescent; stipules 

 filiform, short, hairy. Flowers axillary and solitary, or clustered 

 at the extremities of the branches ; peduncles ranging up to 1 in., 

 pubescent, indistinctly jointed near the apex. Epicalyx pubescent, 

 consisting of 10 entire curving filiform or narrow and tapering 

 separate segments about ^ in. long, more or less patent in fruit. 

 Calyx hispid-pubescent, § to J in. long, deeply 5-lobed, exceeding 

 the fruit, not ventricose in fruit; lobes ovate-attenuate, long- 

 pointed, | to § in. long. Petals yellow, but little exceeding the 

 calyx, somewhat pubescent outside. Fruit pubescent ; carpels 5, 

 prolonged at the apex into a long beak, ciliate along the lines of 

 dehiscence. Seeds tuberculate, not cottony. 



Mossamedes. — In sandy stations at the banks of the river Bero, 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. August 1859, June 1860. Nos. 4936, 4937. 



Perhaps a distinct species, differing from that of Garcke by not 

 cordate leaves, etc. 



8. H. surattensis L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 696 ; Masters, I.e., p. 201. 



Loanda. — No. 5254. 



Golungo Alto. — In palm-plantations near the river Cuango, fl. and 

 fr. May 1856. Nos. 4921, 5255. 

 Pungo Andongo.— Fl. May 1857. No. 5253. 



9. H. Mastersianus Hiern. 



H. furcatus Masters, I.e., p. 201, non Roxb. 



Pungo Andongo. — Flowers deep yellow, somewhat veined, rather 

 small for the genus (about f in. long) ; in secondary thickets near 

 Caghuy ; fl. and fr. May 1857 (seeds slightly and sparingly papillose). 

 No. 5242. 



Huilla. — In thickets near Ferrao da Sola in the Lopollo country ; 

 flowers yellow (1 in. long) ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4927. Flowers yellow 

 (1 in. long) ; in stony bushy places at the borders of forests consisting 

 of "Panda" (JBerlinia paniculata Benth., Brachystegia spicaeformis 

 Benth., etc.), near Eme ; fl. May 1860. No. 4928. 



These specimens differ from H. furcatus by the shortness of the 

 peduncles, which do not exceed \ in. in length. The following No. 

 further differs by the short peduncles being not always solitary 

 and often arranged in terminal leafy spicate racemes or in small 

 axillary leafy cymes ; the seeds glabrous smooth and shining ; it 

 may perhaps constitute a separate species : — 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, patently branched ; 

 flowers of moderate size (1 to 1£ in. long), of a straw-yellow colour ; in 

 thickets alongside the rivulets of the fortress of Pungo Andongo, near 

 Oazella, April 1857 ; also Calunda-Mangue ; fl. and fr. No. 5241. 



10. H. rostellatus Guill. & Perr. Fl. Senegamb. Tent. p. 55 ; 

 Masters, I.e., p. 201. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub, 5 to 8 ft. high, armed with rigid 

 very stinging hairs ; flowers of a sulphur colour, marked with purple 

 inside near the base, large ; in moist thickets at the banks of the river 

 Miege to the south of the city of Pungo Andongo ; fl. No. 5243. 



