Lightfootia. ] LXXV. CAMPANULACEZ (HEMSLEY). 475 
3. L. tenuifolia, A. DO. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, vi. p- 327. Suffru- 
tescent with several ascending pubescent cylindrical somewhat woody, 
not fleshy, stems 12-18 in. high, more or less branching upwards. 
. Leaves alternate much crowded narrow-linear, 4—12 lines long, dentate, 
pilose beneath. Flowers often solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. 
Pedicels 1-14 lines long as well as the hemispherical calyx-tube pubes- 
cent. Calyx-lobes scarcely exceeding a line in length erect slender 
furnished with a few teeth. Lobes of the corolla linear somewhat 
pilose slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes very pale blue.—Description 
chiefly from De Candolle. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in dense woods, Welwitsch! 
_ 4. L. collomioides, A. DOC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, vi. p. 328. A 
biennial with a fusiform root and 1 or 2 purplish erect slightly 
branched puberulous stems from 12-18 in. high. Leaves alternate 
(radical not seen) lower ones obovate-oblong obtuse (4-8 lines long), 
narrowed into a short petiole, the rest sessile acute 8-16 lines long, 
puberulous on both sides, margin thickened, crenate, crenatures denti- 
culate. Flowers pale blue in small terminal subglobose bracteate 
heads ; bracts linear crenate or entire pilose. Calyx-tube hemispherical 
glabrous or pilose at the top; lobes lanceolate pilose on the margin 
and back, scarcely a line long. Corolla 5-partite, 14 lines long; lobes 
linear.— Description after De Candolle. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in elevated humid pastures, Welwitsch ! 
_ >. I. mapiformis, A. DO. in Ann. Sc. Nat, sér. 5, vi. p.328. A 
biennial with a turnip-shaped or fusiform root from which rises a 
Simple or slightly branched terete pubescent stem 1}-4 ft. high. 
ves alternate, margin thickened crenate crenatures denticulate or 
dentate puberulous on both sides, lower ones oblong or narrowly obo- 
vate-oblong, about 2~3 in. long, scarcely narrowed into a petiole, sub- 
acute, upper ones lanceolate, gradually shorter, narrower and more 
acute. Flowers pale violet, in small axillary and terminal heads inter- 
mixed with small linear bracts similar to the upper leaves. Otherwise 
ike [, collomioides.—Description after De Candolle. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, in dry bushy places, Welwitsch / 
hare wt annua, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér.5, vie p. 829. A diffuse 
i wy annual 6-18 in, high with the habit of Stachys annua. Leaves 
aerate, sessile, lanceolate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 8-10 lines long, 
obtuse or subacute, membranous, hairy on both sides along the midrib, 
margin white with a few distant callous teeth, lateral veins indistinct, 
ually passing into shorter lanceolate acuminate bracts. Les 
“<p blue, usually in 3-flowered axillary and terminal racemes. a an : 
hie’: short, furnished as well as the hemispherical calyx-tu we 
Spid hairs, Calyx-lobes less than a line long, entire, sparingly pl ond 
Hor clla-lobes linear, rather longer than the calyx-lobes, with here 7 
*te_a few hairs on the back. Capsule half-superior.— Description 
tr De Candolle. on 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, in dry stony and bushy pastures, Welwitsch : 
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