628 LXXIII, CAMPANULACE&, | Lobelia 
datum Welw. herb. n. 1901), Anagallis pumila Sw., and species of 
Gentianacex, Limosella, and Lriocaulon, abundant ; fl. Dec. 1859 and 
Feb. 1860. No. 1146. FI. Oct. 1859. No. 1146d. 
This is nearly related to L. exilis Hochst. 
8. L. nuda Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 469. 
Hvitia.—An erect, dichotomously and virgately branched herb, 
4 to 2 ft. high, flowering twice or even thrice in a year ; flowers blue. 
In sandy sunny damp places flooded in summer near Lopollo and in 
neglected plots, also along streams and by the aqueduct, plentiful ; fl. 
and fr. Oct, to Dec. 1859, and Feb. and May 1860, No. 1145. 
2. CYPHIA Berg. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 554. 
1. C. lobelioides Welw. ms. in herb. 
Cyphia (sp.), Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 187 (June 1861). 
A slender, glabrous or subglabrate, quite simple herb, with 
the aspect of a Lobelia, perennial with a globose-tuberous root of 
1 in. diameter ; stem filiform, straight, 1 to 1} ft. high, angular, 
sparingly leafy, terminating in a raceme of flowers ; leaves linear 
or narrowly lanceolate-linear, minutely denticulate, adpressed, 
1 to 1} in. long, sessile; flowers violet-purple, bilabiate, } to > in. 
long ; pedicels about 54, in. long or shorter, equalling the brac- 
teoles ; racemes spikelike, 1 to 5 in. long; calyx somewhat 
turbinate, 4 to 3 in. long, pubescent, deeply 5-cleft ; the segments 
linear or nearly so, erect, persistent, sparingly and minutely 
denticulate ; corolla quasi-tubular ; the tube pilose inside, opening 
at the back; the lobes of the limb 5, linear, % to 4 in. long, 
pilose inside with white hairs, induplicate in the bud; stamens 5, 
hypogynous, persistent, inserted at the very base of the corolla- 
tube, ;'5 in. long; the filaments flattened, glabrous or nearly so, 
about as long as the anthers, whitish; the anthers linear, all 
curved-converging above the stigma, and bearded at the apex, 
otherwise glabrous or nearly so; ovary inferior; style simple, 
rather thick, incurved ; stigma thick, shortly indusiate, bearded 
with white hairs. 
Huriia.—In damp wooded meadows between Lopollo and Morro 
de Quilengues, plentiful here and there ; fl. Jan. 1860, No. 1135. 
A form with the stem branched occurs, but rarely. 
3. CEPHALOSTIGMA A. DC.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. ii, p. 555. 
1. C. Schimperi Hochst. in Plant. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 69 
(U. i. 1840) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 2 (1851). 
Wahlenbergia Schimpert Hochst., l.c., iii. n. 1964 (1844). Light- 
footia arenaria Alph. DC. in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 5, vi. p. 329 
(1866); Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 476. C. hersutum 
Hemsl., /.c., p. 472; non Edgw. 
Huitia.—An annual herb ; stem erect, 8 in. or scarcely a foot high, 
branched from the base; branches elongated; leaves rather rigid, 
sessile, lanceolate ; flowers solitary, axillary, arranged in a paniculate 
manner ; corolla 5-cleft, from milk-white becoming purple ; the lobes 
narrow, spreading during the flowering; stigma 3-lobed. In sandy 
places neglected after cultivation, also in plantations of maize, in 
