Assonia] xxiv. sterculiace^e. 87 



4. A. Burgessise 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. i. p. 76 (1891) ; Dombeya, 

 Burgessice Gerr. ex Harv. in Harv. & Sond. El. Cap. ii. p. 590 

 (1862); Masters, I.e., p. 228 ; var. crenulata. 



D. Buryessice var. crenulata Szyszlowicz in Rozpr. Spraw. Pos. 

 Wydz. mat.-przyr. xvii. p. 137 (Cracow, 1888). 



Huilla. — A bush or tree, 10 to 25 ft. high, with erect-patent 

 branches leafy at the extremities; in the more elevated forests of 

 Sena da Xella and near Mumpulla, June 1860. (Umbel about 

 15-flowered.) No. 4731. 



5. A. Mastersii 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. i. p. 76 (1891). 



D. Mastersii Hook. f. in Bot, Mag. t. 5639 (1867) ; Masters, 

 I.e., p. 228. 



Ambaca. — A bush, 12 to 15 ft. high ; branches long, lax, leafy at 

 the apex ; flowers white, June (8), 1857 ; behind the stream where 

 Welwitsch collected seeds, Oct. 1856. No. 4737. Cultivated in 

 Lisbon from seeds collected in the district of Ambaca in 1856 ; a 

 leafy shoot, without flowers. No. 4738. Sporadic by rivulets in 

 thickets between the river Lucalaand Zamba ; fr. Oct. 1856. No. 4739. 

 Ripe fruit with seeds. Coll. Carp. 285. 



6. A. sparmannioid.es Hiern, sp. n. 



A shrub of 5 to 10 ft. in height, with the habit of a Sparmannia, 

 or perhaps a tree, with lax rather erect glabrescent fuscous 

 branches ; branchlets subterete, scattered with long hairs branched 

 at the base. Leaves long-stalked, di-poly-morphous, mostly with 

 3 not deep lobes, middle lobe usually deltoid acute, larger than 

 the lateral lobes, irregularly crenate-dentate, cordiform towards 

 the base, submembranous (when recently developed), thinly scat- 

 tered with appressed not stelliform hairs on both surfaces, 3 to 

 6 in. long by 2^ to 6 in. wide; petiole 1£ to 5 in. long, hirsute 

 with spreading hairs; stipules narrow, hairy, deciduous. Inflo- 

 rescence umbelliform, about 3 in. in diam., hirsute in the upper 

 axils, about 15-flowered; peduncle 1^ to If in. long; pedicels 

 about | in. long, clothed with long spreading hairs ; flowers 

 about g to | in. long, 1 to 1| in. in diam., of a whitish-rose- 

 colour ; bracts lanceolate, hairy, deciduous ; calyx \ in. long, hairy 

 outside, glabrous inside, lobes lanceolate, § in. long, at length 

 reflexed, persistent ; petals broadly obovate, scarious, persistent, 

 white except the rose-coloured inside of the base, turning brown 

 after flowering; stamens 15 to 20, of which 5 are sterile longer 

 and ligulate, united at the base into a shallow rose-coloured cup ; 

 style firm, red, divided at the apex into 5 stigmas reflected in a 

 circinate manner; ovary 5-celled, densely clothed with whitish 

 hirsute hairs, cells few-ovuled. 



Golungo Alto. — Sporadic on the bushy slopes of Cacarambolo ; 

 fl. end of July 1855, with recently developed foliage in Jan. 1856, and 

 in flower-bud in June 1856. No. 4734. In fruit, perhaps not quite 

 ripe. Coll. Carp. 284. 



Nearly related to A. Schimperiana, but without the patch of rufous 

 hairs which is found at the junction of the blade of the leaf with the 

 petiole in the case of the latter, and the staminal tube is shorter. 



