Hermannia] xxiv. sterculiaceje. 89 



and Cambondo, and in sparingly grassy spots near Luinha, not un- 

 common ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 4700. 



Pcnoo Andoxgo. — An erect annual herb, a foot high, branched 

 from the base ; in rather moist wooded meadows, between Pedras 

 de Guinga and Candumba ; in leaf and not yet in flower March 1857. 

 No. 4701. An annual much-branched diffuse herb, with small yellow 

 flowers and the habit almost of an Evolmdus ; in the bushy sparingly 

 grassy parts of Calundo in the fortress of Pungo Andongo, abundant ; 

 fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 4702. At the sandy skirts of forests 

 between Condo and Quisonde ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 4703. 



Huilla — Catumba ; fl. and fr. 4 April 1860. No. 4705. 



2. H. viscosa Hiern, sp. n. 



A rigid glandular-viscid intricately branched or distorted low 

 undershrub ; stems 1 to 2 ft. long, ascending, glabrate and dark- 

 ashy below, hairy and glandular-viscid above. Leaves oval or 

 oval-oblong, more or less rounded at both ends, serrate-dentate 

 except near the 3 -nerved base, stellate-hairy and often glandular- 

 viscid on both surfaces, j to 1^ in. long by ^ to || in. wide ; petiole 

 ■^ to \ in. long, glandular-viscid ; lanceolate-linear, ^ in. long. 

 Flowers mostly in the axil of the upper leaves, arranged in terminal 

 leafy racemes, of a violet-rose colour, turning almost purple, \ in. 

 long; peduncles or pedicels g to | in., more or less glandular- 

 viscid, often bracteolate and bent at the joint. Calyx | in. long, 

 deeply 5-lobed, hairy and glandular-viscid outside, glabrous inside ; 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, acute. Petals obovate, obtuse, glabrous, 

 shorter than the calyx, dextrorsely contorted in aestivation as 

 regarded from within. Stamens about as long as the calyx ; 

 anthers somewhat hairy, longer than the filaments which are 

 dilated above. Style glabrous above, hairy in the lower part, 

 rather exceeding the anthers ; ovary glabrous below, hairy towards 

 the apex. Fruit about \ in. long ; carpels 5, each with 2 patent 

 horns. 



Huilla. — In flower and fruit. No. 4704. 



Mossamedes. — On the red sandstone rocks of the Boca do Bera ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 4709. On the sides of the mountains of 

 Serra de Montes Negros ; fr. 10 August 1859. No. 4710. 



3. H. arabica Hochst. et Steud. in PI. Schimp. n. 928 (TJnio 

 itiner. 1837), & ex Fischer Meyer et Ave-Lall. Ind. Sem. Petropol 

 vi. Animadv. Bot. p. 9, n. 1279 (1840). 



H. filipes Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 206 (1859-60) 

 apud Masters, I.e., p. 232. H. modesta Masters, I.e., p. 232. 



Bumbo. — In fields after crops of Arachis hypogma L., near Bumbo ; 

 fr. and late fl., most of the petals having fallen, Oct. 1859. No. 4706. 



Benguella. — An annual slender rather rigid herb, much branched 

 from the base upwards ; flowers red-purple ; very abundant in open 

 sandy stations around the city of Benguella ; in fruit and with a few 

 flowers, June 1859. No. 4707. 



Mossamedes. — An annual herb, prostrate or ascending, branched 

 from the base, scarcely 3 in. high ; flowers pendulous, of a pleasant 

 deep red-carmine colour ; in dry sandy hilly stations at Saco de Giraul, 

 also near S. Antonio ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 4708. An erect or 



