Hibiscus] xxin. malvace^e. 77 



of a pallid grey-green colour. Leaves oblong, mostly ascending, 

 acute or pointed at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped or nearly 

 rounded at the base, coriaceous or rigid, of a grey-green colour on 

 both surfaces, rather paler beneath, with scattered stellate hairs 

 above and minutely punctate beneath, with spreading pointed 

 teeth on the margin except towards the base, | to 2| in. long, 

 % to \ in. broad ; petiole T * F to ^ in. long, stellate-hairy ; stipules 

 subulate, J^- to \ in. long, hairy. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 1 to 2 in. long, scattered with stellate hairs, jointed at or rather 

 above the middle. Epicalyx tawny-hairy, consisting of about 

 7 subulate separate bracteoles, about JL. in. long, appressed to the 

 calyx-tube or more or less spreading. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, 

 tawny-hairy, \ to § in. long ; lobes lanceolate, acute. Petals 

 scarlet, ^ to g in. long, somewhat pilose outside. Fruit depresso- 

 globose, tawny tomentose outside, | in. long ; seeds covered with 

 pale cottony hairs, 



Huilla. — In dry thickets and rocky pastures clothed with short 

 bushes ; in very hard ground, near Lopollo ; rather rare ; fl. and fr. 

 Nov. 1860. No. 4943. 



This species belongs to the section Bombycella, and is related to 

 H. pusillus Thunb. 



9. CIENFUEGOSIA Oav. Diss. ii. App. (1786), & iii. p. 174, 

 t. 72, fig. 2 (1787). Fugoaia Juss. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL 

 i. p. 208. 



1. C. pentaphylla K. Schumann in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. p. 46 

 (1889). 



G. anomala Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. Beiblatt, No. 48, 

 p. 1 (1894). Gossypium anomalwrn Wawra & Peyr. Sert. Beng. 

 p. 21 (1860) ; Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 211. G. micro- 

 carpum Welw. ms. ex Giirke, I.e. 



Loanda. — Rather rare in dry bushy places near Teba, very rarely 

 near Penedo in company with Abrus ; fl. and fr. April and May 1854 ; 

 a slender shrub, 4 ft. high, petals of a pallid-sulphur colour, inside 

 glossy-purple near the base, between Teba and Penedo ; fl. and fr. end 

 of March 1858. No. 5221. Coll. Carp. 262. 



Mossamedes and Bumbo. — A shrub, 1 to 4 ft. high, with numerous 

 erect oblique stems, divaricately branched from the base ; flowers yellow, 

 fruit of the size of a large hazel-nut, not uncommon in gravelly thickets 

 along the banks of the river Bero, fl. and fr. July 1859 ; a little slender 

 tree, 6 to 8 ft. high, with a trunk 1 to 1J in. in diameter, flowers from 

 whitish turning pale-red, petals marked inside near the base with a 

 large red-purple spot, in the more elevated parts of Serra da Xella. 

 No. 5220. A much-branched shrub, 3 to 8 ft. high ; flowers of a wine- 

 red colour ; capsules of the size of a large hazel-nut, 3-4-celled, 3-4- 

 valved ; seeds clothed with a dense and closely adhering cottony wool 

 of a red-cinnamon colour ; frequent from Quitibe and Pomangala up 

 to Bumbo ; at Quitibe June 1860. Coll. Carp. 30. 



10. GOSSYPIUM L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 209. 

 1. G. barbadense L. Sp. PL p. 693 (1753); Masters in Oliv.Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. i. p. 210. 



