Drosera] xi/vm. droseeack^e. 331 



Huilla. — A herb, apparently perennial, more or less caulescent ; 

 root consisting of elongated cylindrical fleshy brittle tubercles ; leaves 

 strigulose-pubescent beneath ; petioles scapes and inflorescence clothed 

 with a rufous-hoary pubescence ; flowers blue-purple, very variable in 

 size. Abundant in spongy woods by the banks of streams between 

 Lopollo and the great lake of Ivantala and towards Quilengues, fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1860 ; also weaker forms in bogs of Sphagnum at the base of 

 Morro de Monino, fl. and fr. March 1860. No. 1182. 



5. D. flexicaulis Welw. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 403. 



Huilla. — A biennial or perhaps perennial herb ; rhizome composed 

 of elongated fleshy cylindrical fasciculate tubercles ; stems erect, 

 slender, filiform, regularly flexuous, sparingly leafy, 4 to 8 in. high, 

 glabrescent as also the petioles which are a little longer than the 

 obovate-spathulate leaf -blade ; inflorescence racemose, sub-secund ; 

 peduncle capillary, elongated, starting in a curved course within the 

 rosette of uppermost leaves, then straight, slender, glabrous, as well 

 as the stems shining-atropurpureous ; pedicels and calyx pubescent ; 

 flowers (as in several other species of the genus) variable in size, the 

 larger ones almost double the smaller ; calyx-segments barbuiate- 

 ciliolate on the margin ; petals always longer than, sometimes twice 

 the length of, the calyx. Abundant, in elevated spongy wooded parts 

 of Morro de Lopollo, about Quipaca Velha, at an elevation of 5500 ft. ; 

 fl. Nov. and beginning of Dec. 1859. No. 1181. Fruiting specimens 

 in the same locality but at an elevation of 6000 ft. in company with 

 species of Disa and Utricularia, end of Dec. 1859. No. 11816. 



XLIX. MYROTHAMNACEiE. 

 1. MYROTHAMNUS Welw. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 1005. 



1. M. flabellifolius Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 155 

 (1 Feb. 1859); Welw. Apont. p. 578, Nota 8; Welw. Synopse, 

 p. 26, n. 58 ; Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 23, t. viii. (flabellifolia) ; Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 404 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 180 (1884); Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. p. 233 (1892). 



Pungo Andongo. — A bush, 1 to 7 ft. high, prostrate or ascending or 

 even strict-erect ; trunk attaining 16 in. in diam. at the base. Much 

 branched and very agreeably aromatic throughout, sometimes laden 

 with specimens of Parmelia perlata Ach. (Welw. Lichen n. 114). On 

 the summit of Pedra Songue and in elevated rocky places in Serra de 

 Pedras de Gruinga, at an elevation of 3500 ft. ; fl. Jan. and young fr. 

 March 1857, abundant ; a low prostrate form near Funda Quilombo. 

 No. 1279. A specimen of the wood, March 1857. Coll. Carp. 544. 



Bt/ILLA. — An erect aromatic dioecious shrub, in this region at an 

 altitude of 4500 to 5500 ft., 1 to 2£ ft. high, branched towards the 

 apex ; leaves glandular, flowering branches with persistent scales ; in 

 very elevated rocky woody places, near Lopollo and in Morro de 

 Monino ; fl. Dec. 1859, fr. April 1860. No. 1278. Stamens mona- 

 delphous ; anthers 4 to 6, usually 5, basifixed, clustered in a head at 

 the apex of a stipes, with very short filaments. In elevated wooded 

 places in Morro de Lopollo ; fr. May 1860. Coll. Carp. 545. 



All the parts of this shrub and especially the branchlets and leaves 

 contain a resin of very pleasant odour like that in certain species of 

 Myrica. The natives in Pungo Andongo employ the shoots in the 

 form of a cold or warm infusion to cure headaches and in the form of 



