88 xxiv. sterculiacEjE. [Assonia 



7. A. Schimperiana 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. i. p. 76 (1891). 

 Dombeya Schimperiana A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 78, 

 t. 19 (1847) ; Masters, I.e., p. 229. 



Var. (?) lobulata. 



Leaves shortly 3-5-lobed, 8 to 10 in. long by 7 to 9 in. wide, 

 more or less stellate-hairy on both sides, petiole 5£ to 1\ in. long, 

 stipules not persistent. 



Btjmbo. — A tree ; in the primitive forests of Serra da Xella, fl. June 

 1860. No. 4729. 



Htjilla. — Between the top of Serra da Xella and Mumpulla, fr. 

 Oct. 1859. No. 4730. 



5. MELHANIA Forsk. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 222. 



1. M. ferruginea A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 76; Masters 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 231. 



Huilla. — A little shrub, 2 ft. high, very sparingly branched, with 

 yellow flowers ; peduncles never seen by Welwitsch bearing only one 

 flower ; rare, in shrubby places along the stream of Monino ; fl. April 

 1860. No. 4741. 



2. M. Forbesii Planchon ex Masters, I.e., p. 231. 



Loanda. — In some cases a shrub of 3 ft. in height, and in other 

 cases almost an herbaceous plant of as many inches ; uncommon, in 

 bushy stations about the swamps of Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. beginning of 

 May 1854. No. 4743. Coll. Carp. 288. A little shrub, 1 to 2 ft. 

 high, sparingly branched, or sometimes an herbaceous annual already 

 flowering and fruiting ; petals of a sulphur-yellow colour, soon turning 

 almost saffron-yellow ; in hilly shortly-bushy stations about swamps 

 and marshes ; very rare and only found near Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. end 

 of April 1858. No. 4742. Fl. and fr. July 1860. Coll. Carp. 286. 



3. M. incana Heyne ex Wallich List, n. 1200 (1828); var. 

 albiflora. 



A little low shrub branched from the base ; branches ascending ; 

 flowers white, rather large for the genus. (Root 8 in. long; 

 branch 6 in. long, nearly simple.) 



Mossamedes. — In sandy stations near the river Bero, very scarce ; 

 fl. and fr. end of July 1869. No. 4740. The species, of which 

 Welwitsch's No. is considered to be a variety, scarcely differs from 

 M. abyssinica A. Rich. 



6. HERMANNIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 223. 

 1. H. tigrensis Hocbst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. n. 812 ; 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 74. tab. 17 (tigreensis) (1847); 

 Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 233. 



Ambaca. — A tender villous annual herb, nearly 2 ft. high ; petiole 

 bistipulate ; in flooded stations about to become dry, on the left bank 

 of the river Caringa, sparingly ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 4699. 



Golungo Alto. — A little annual herb, prostrate or ascending, 

 rather pilose, much branched divaricately ; leaves serrate-dentate, 

 with 2 stipules ; flowers of a paler or deeper yellowish colour ; in 

 rather moist sandy stations, and also in drier places, between Trombeta 



