Sccevola| LXXII. GOODENIACE. 625 
calyx very shortly 5-toothed or in some flowers scarcely at all dentate ; 
corolla yellow ; drupe globose, yellowish-brown when ripe. In sandy 
maritime parts of the island of Loanda, in company with Halimum 
Portulacastrum, var. crithmoides, very abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1854. 
Also at Cape Palmerinha, Dec. 1853. No. 1137. 
MossaAMEDES.—A decumbent, fleshy herb, 2 to 3 ft. high; bark 
dark green ; leaves rather thick, herbaceous-greenish ; flowers yellow; 
drupes black-bluish, juicy. In sandy maritime places between Mossa- 
medes and Praia da Amelia, plentiful; fl. and fr, end of July 1859, 
Also near Giratil, July 1859. No. 1136. 
LXXITI. CAMPANULACEA. 
All the species occurring in the district of Pungo Andongo are 
insignificant herbs and scarcely or not at all conspicuous among 
other plants ; such is also the case with most of them in Huilla, but 
Lightfootia collomioides is conspicuous in meadows, while Z. tenai- 
folia forms an exceedingly pretty heathlike undershrub. Only 
one of the Huilla species was found to occur also in Pungo Andongo, 
and that one, namely L. marginata, is very closely related to the 
Pungo Andongo LZ. napiformis, and perhaps might be considered 
too near for specific distinction. Since, however, the plants are 
mostly small and rapidly shrivel up, it is quite possible that some 
of the Huilla species may have escaped notice, since Welwitsch was 
shut up in the fortress during March and April 1860, and was 
only on rare occasions able to make botanical excursions. 
1. LOBELIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 551; non Plum. 
1. L. thermalis Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. p. 40 (1794). 
Parastranthus thermalis Alph. DC. in DC. Prodr. vii. p. 354 
(1839) ; Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 537 (1865). ZL. lepto- 
carpa Griessel. in Linnea v. p. 419 (1830); Alph. DC., l.c., p. 358. 
MossaMepES.—A bright green, creeping herb, with sarmentose 
stems, rather fleshy and rather rigid leaves, and deep blue, labiate 
flowers. At the sides of rivulets in the brackish parts of Os Cazados, 
to the east of the town, not abundant; with a few fl. July 1859. 
No. 5813. 
2. L. gracillima Welw. ms. in herb. 
A very slender, annual herb, about 4 in. high; leaves radical, 
rosulate, oval-obovate, rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at the 
base into the petiole, obtusely and remotely denticulate-repand or 
repand-subentire, subglabrate above, more or less scattered with 
long whitish hairs beneath, about jin. long; petiole } in. long, 
flattened and somewhat clasping at the base; stem scapiform, 
terete, inconspicuously puberulous, solitary, erect, thin, simple 
below, loosely divided above, few-flowered; pedicels unequal, the 
lowest one the longest nearly an inch long ; bracts small, sublinear, 
inserted at the base of the pedicels; flowers nearly } in. long, 
deep blue; calyx + in. long, glabrous or nearly so, the tube cam- 
panulate, somewhat narrowed towards the base, as long as the 
lanceolate lobes; corolla bilabiate, the lobes of the larger lip 
