Volume 3

Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.

  • British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
Date:
1896-1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Striya] Loanda.—A herb, bright green in the living state, even the ovaries and capsules herbaceous-green and as also the stem and scales varnished-glossy ; flowers violet in colour, open nearly throughout the vear • in moist sandy places, parasitical at the roots of Shutereia bicolor Choisy (Welw. Coll. Carp. 761), about Loanda, as for instance at Represa de Luiz Gomes; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853 and April 1854. Primary stem usually twisted and deformed, the other stems strictly erect 6 to 12 in. high, as well as the ovate-acuminate scale-like leaves pale Ween quickly turning black ; branchlets quite erect, adpressed to the stems, flori'bund as well as the stems ; floral leaves bract-like, scarcely reaching half-way up the calyx ; flowers almost always violet, very rarely white, never seen otherwise coloured ; calyx-ribs thick, raised; the 2 lateral bracteoles lanceolate : in rather damp sandy somewhat muddy depressions where rain-water ponds, from Loanda towards Quicuxe, plentiful ; fl. and young fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 5916. PuNGO Andongo.—An annual, green herb, the whole plant turning black in drying ; flowers lilac. In damp bushy places at the river Luxillo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 5848. Mossamedes.—A dusky red herb with pale bluish flowers. In sandy bushy places at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, sparingly ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 5824. 2. S. Thunbergii Bentk. in Hook., l.c., p. 363. Buchnera asiatica L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 630 (1753) partly. B. bilabiata Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. p. 100 (1800). Ptjngo Andongo.—A somewhat fleshy herb, green in the living state ; flowers very bright violet in colour. In moist pastures near Condo ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 5854. Huilla.—Flowers red-purple. In the damp meadows of the Monino, in company with species of Primulacete and Burmannia bicolor Mait. var. cifricana Ridl. (Welw. Herb. No. 6473) ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. I860. No. 5822. 3. S. canescens Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C, p. 361 (1895). Huilla.—An annual herb ; root subsimple ; stems few, very slender, erect ; leaves opposite, lanceolate-linear, subulate ; adpressed closely to the stem ; flowers pale lilac. In little woods of Proteacese, among herbs, at the river Monino, sparingly; fl. end of Nov. 1859. No. 5823. In our specimens the lobes of the anterior lip of the corolla are ovate-oblong rather than lanceolate, and the plants are less hoary than in the type. 4. S. Welwitschii Engl. in. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. 514, t. xii. fig. f, c. Huilla.—An annual, parasitical, pilose-viscid, canescent herblet, in habit somewhat resembling a species of thyme : stem erect, sparingly branched towards the apex ; flowers pale lilac. In thickets on a sandy clay soil, about Lopollo, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5820. Flowers whitish ; in sandy thickets on the right bank of the Lopollo river; fl. and fr. Jan. 1860. Flowers white; in hilly bushy sandy places among short grasses, between the Ivantala lake and Quilengues ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 5821. 5. S. elegans Benth. in Hook., l.c., p. 363. Puxgo Andongo.—A green parasitical herb, with splendid scarlet flowers. In moist meadows near Sobato N-billa ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 5851.