Hibiscus] xxiii. MALVACEiE. 73 



Loanda. — Quicuxe, fr. July 1854. No. 5265. A shrubby annual, 

 3 ft. high ; leaves edible ; capsules in old age turning a beautiful 

 purple colour ; Quicuxe, August 1854. Coll. Cakp. 104. 



Golungo Alto. — An annual erect branched herb ; flowers yellow, 

 marked inside at the base with dark-purple ; by the road leading to 

 Mussengue, amongst tall grasses ; fl. May 1855. No. 5263. Corolla 

 wine-white, petals marked at the base inside with a large purple spot ; 

 Luis do Pereira, fl. and fr. May 1855. Nos. 5259, 5260. 3 to 5 ft. 

 high ; lower leaves lobed, the uppermost ones lanceolate-linear elon- 

 gated ; flowers congested ; calyx-lobes densely beset with red glands ; 

 Mussengue road, June 1856. Coll. Carp. 254. A perennial herb, a 

 foot higher or more, strictly erect ; calyx decked with prickly red 

 glands ; corolla rather large, of a violet-sulphur colour variegated 

 with dark-purple at the base ; rather rare, in the wooded thickets of 

 Quisuculo, Sobato de Bango, fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 5258. Coll. 

 Carp. 253. Flowers of a sulphur colour, marked inside with a purple 

 spot ; fl. and young fr. end of June 1855. No. 5264. 



Cazengo— Fr. June 1855. Nos. 5261, 5268. 



Ambaca. — A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; foliage apparently edible ; flowers 

 of a sulphur colour, marked inside at the base with dark-purple ; near 

 Ngombe, in plantations of Manihot ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 5267. 



Pungo Andongo. — An erect herb, usually shrubby and with 

 ascending branches at the base, 3 or occasionally 4 ft. high ; foliage 

 edible, with an agreeable acid taste ; flowers yellow, pretty large ; not 

 uncommon in secondary thickets by the banks of the river Miege, 

 within the fortress of Pungo Andongo ; fl. and immature fr. middle of 

 April 1857; called by the natives "Husa." Nos. 5266, 5269, 5274. 

 Lula dacaranga ; in fruit ; (leaves undivided or 3-lobed, 2£ in. long, 



2 in. broad ; petiole 2£ in. long). No. 4994. 



Mossamedes. — In sandy thickets near the river Bero, sporadic and 

 rare ; in late fl. and immature fr. beginning of August 1859 ; (leaves 



3 to 4-lobed in a digitate manner, blade ranging up to 1J in. long, 

 flowers apparently longer). No. 4931. 



Huilla.— Flowers sulphur-coloured, inside with a purple spot 

 (1^ in. long, when dry) ; in grassy sparsely shrubby stations, at the 

 Banca de Lopollo ; in late fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 4938. 



Several of the specimens enumerated above under this species are 

 doubtfully placed here, and must be compared with the next. 



15. H. Acetosella Welw. ex Fie. in Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lisb., Ser. 2, 

 p. 608. 



H. Sabdariffa Fie. PI. Ut. p. 97 (1884), non L. 



A biennial or triennial or rarely an annual herb or a some- 

 what shrubby perennial plant, glabrous in most parts; branches 

 spreading, smooth, terete or towards the extremities somewhat 

 angular in the dry state. Leaves broadly ovate, 3 to 5-lobed or 

 undivided, scarcely narrowed, not deeply cordate at base, ranging 

 up to 3 in. in length and breadth, rather fleshy, glaucous and 

 acid ; lobes deep or shallow, crenate-dentate ; petioles as long as 

 or longer than the blade, ranging up to 4 in. in length ; stipules 

 linear-spathulate, \ in. long, acute, glabrous. Flowers axillary, 

 subsessfle, often crowded in short axillary leafy branches, rather 

 large, yellow but marked with a red spot near the base on the 

 inside. Segments of the epicalyx 10, combined at the base, linear, 

 sometimes forked at the apex, somewhat hispid or glabrate, about 



