Lobelia| LXXIII, CAMPANULACES. 627 
portion of the corolla, two of them bearded at the tip; seeds 
obtusely trigonous. 
Hv1LuiA,—In somewhat spongy pastures with short herbage, near 
Mumpulla towards Nene, in company with Trifolium subrotundum 
Steud., var. obcordatum Welw., not abundant ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. 
No. 1144. 
5. L. Welwitschii Engl. & Diels in Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. p. 116 
(Sept. 27, 1898). 
A glabrous herb, 5 to 8 in. high; root perennial; rhizome 
creeping, branched; stems usually numerous, simple, erect or 
ascending or the young shoots creeping, narrowly winged and 
leafy chiefly on the lower part; leaves alternate, obovate or the 
upper ones sublinear, rounded or obtusely pointed at the apex, 
sessile, subentire or repand-denticulate, 1 in. long, narrowly 
decurrent; flowers deep azure-blue, 4 in. long, on rather slender 
pedicels of + to 3 in. long, arranged in racemes of 1 to 4 in. long 
terminating the stems; calyx } to 4 in, long; the tube somewhat 
funnel-shaped ; the lobes narrowly lanceolate-linear, rather acute, 
5 in. long; corolla unilabiate, with three oval-oblong lobes 
about as long as the tube and two narrow smaller ones; anther- 
tube somewhat hairy on the back, rather exceeding the undivided 
portion of the corolla, two anthers bearded at the tip; seeds 
somewhat compressed. 
Hvii_ia,—In damp sandy places along streams about Lopollo, rather 
rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 1142. 
Var. albiflora. 
Rhizome strong; stems less numerous, 5 in. high ; flowers white. 
Hviiua.—In moist sandy places, drying up after the October rains, 
near Nene towards Empalanca, rather rare; fl. and fr, Dec. 1859. 
No. 1141. 
6. L. fervens Thunb. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 46 (1818); Hemsl. in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 468. 
MossAMEDES.—An_ herbaceous-green, not glaucous, annual herb, 
flaccid throughout, subsarmentose, decumbent, or subscandent among 
other herbs ; flowers blue. In moist sandy places with shrubs and 
short herbage along the banks of the river Maiombo, near Pao; fl. and 
fr. Oct. 1859. No. 1143. 
7. L. angolensis Engl. & Diels, J.c., p. 114. 
A glabrate or weakly pubescent, rather fleshy herb, 1 to 3 in. 
high, ceespitose at the base, with the habit of Glawa ; stems decum- 
bent or erect, not conspicuously angular, sometimes rooting below, 
leafy; leaves alternate, oval or somewhat- obovate, obtuse, sub- 
sessile, not or scarcely decurrent, 3 to 4 in. long, entire ; flowers. 
axillary, solitary, 1 in. long, violet-coloured or lilac; pedicels 
rather slender, 1 to 4 in. long ; calyx }in. long, thinly pubescent, 
broadly campanulate, deeply 5-cleft; the lobes lanceolate, about 
equalling the corolla-tube; anthers puberulous on the back, two 
of them bearded at the tip. 
Huitia.—In swampy pastures with dense and short herbage near 
Lopollo, in company with Trifolium subrotundum Steud., var. obcor- 
