Volume 1
Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.
- British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
- Date:
- 1896-1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Hibiscus] XXXII. MALVACE/E. ‘ ' 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, f to. 2| in., long, i to i in. broad; petiole T\- to k in. long, stellate-hairy ; stipules subulate, i to i 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 -jV 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, 4 to § 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 Cav. Diss. ii. App. (1786), & iii. p. 174, t. 72, fig. 2 (1787). Fitgosia Juss.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 208. 1. C. pentaphylla K. Schumann in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. p. 46 (1889). C. anomula Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. Beiblatt, No. 48, p. 1 (1894). Gossypium anomcdum Wawra & Peyr. Sert. Beng. p. 21 (1860); Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 211. G. micro- carpum Welw. ms. ex Giirke, lx. 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 1^ 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 Pomanoala up to Bumbo ; at Quitibe June 1860. Coll. Carp. 30. 10. GOSSYPIUM L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 209. 1. G. barhadense L. Sp. PI. p. 693 (1753); Masters in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr. i. p. 210.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
