74 XXIII. MALVACE.4I. [Hibiscus 



as long as the calyx in flower or half as long as it in fruit. Calyx 

 divided about half way down in flower or two-thirds down in fruit, 

 hispid or glabrate ; lobes ovate, prolonged in fruit. Fruit \ to | in. 

 long, pilose outside ; carpels pointed ; seeds papillose, not cottony. 



Golungo Alto. — In stations clothed with short brushwood, along- 

 side roads, also in neglected fields, and occasionally cultivated by the 

 natives ; Varzea do Isidoro, in flower-bud in March 1856, and in May 

 1855 in fl. near Mussengue. No. 5270. At the moist borders of 

 thickets between Sange and Zanga, fr. Dec. 1854 ; and in open wooded 

 places on the lower mountains of Queta, Oct. 1855. No. 5271. By 

 fences and thickets near Sange, in seed Dec. 1854. Coll. Cakp. 249, 

 250, 252. 



The leaves have an agreeable acidity, on which account th$ 

 Portuguese colonists call the plant " Azedas " (sorrel) ; they are of 

 easy digestion and are prepared by the inhabitants after the manner of 

 Rumex Acetosella, affording an excellent restorative remedy to invalids 

 after the climatic fevers. This bears much resemblance to II. canna- 

 binus L., but is destitute of aculeate tubercles, and has the character 

 of the section Furcaria. It is called by the natives of Golungo Alto 

 " Husa," as is also a plant mentioned under H. cannabinus L. in Pungo 

 Andongo. Welwitsch in Apontamentos, p. 558, stated that a species of 

 Hibiscus, hitherto undescribed and called " Husa " by the negroes, is 

 cultivated as greens, having a taste similar to sorrel. 



16. H. micranthus L. f. Suppl. p. 308 (1781); Masters, I.e., p. 205. 

 Bombycella bieolor Welw. Apontamentos, pp. 558, 589. 

 Loanda and Dande. — An undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, erect ; 



branches again branched towards the apex ; pubescence finely stellate ; 

 flowers of a whitish-rose colour, very elegant, nodding ; abundant in 

 thickets near the city of Loanda, and also in rather dry hilly stations 

 near the river Dande ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853 and Jan. 1854. No. 4989. 

 An undershrub with rod-like stems, oblong leaves, and milkwhite 

 flowers ; a plant quite deserving cultivation. Coll. Cakp. 267. A 

 herb or undershrub of 2 to 4 ft., woody at base ; flowers nodding, 

 delightfully two-coloured, whitish at the base and from the middle to 

 the apex rose-purple, in the dry season rather small, but in the rainy 

 season much larger ; abundant on bushy hills, with rather large flowers 

 Dec. 1853, and with small flowers in flooded stations near Imbondeiro 

 dos Lobos, March 1858 ; also in fruit. No. 4988. An erect under- 

 shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, in groves of Hyphmne benguellensis Welw., Praia 

 S. Thiago, Feb. and Sept. 1858. Coll. Caep. 266. A shrub, 6 ft. 

 high, with the habit of a Sida ; flowers of a fine purple colour ; in 

 stations with weak and low bushes, near Calucala, rare, fl. and fr. 

 Sept. 1854. No. 4897. 



17. H. Solandra L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. i. p. 103 t. 49 (1785); 

 Masters, I.e., p. 206. 



Golungo Alto. — An annual erect herb, \\ ft. high, divaricately 

 branched near the base ; lower leaves cordiform, the middle ones with 

 3 or more lobes, and the uppermost ones more or less lanceolate ; 

 flowers white, very fugacious ; petals concrete to a considerable height 

 with the staminal tube, convolute in the bud and soon after the 

 opening of the flower ; anthers reniform, versatile, subsessile ; style- 

 branches 5 ; stigmas capitellate-penicillate ; capsule 5-celled, loculi- 

 cidal ; valves 5, seminiferous along the middle and also along the 

 septum, when dehiscent exposing almost to the base a central column ; 



