630 LXXIII, CAMPANULACES, [ Lightfootia 
the base, gradually thickened upwards, pubescent ; stigmas 3, ovoid- 
oblong, rather thick, erect-patent, papillose on the inner face ; capsule 
pyramidal when young, 3-celled, half-dehiscent at the apex. In 
secondary woods and rather dry thickets on the right bank of the 
river Cuanza, sporadic but widely scattered ; fl. and young fr. 21 and 
22 Jan. 1857. No. 1150. 
Alph. De Candolle, /.c., cites for this species also No. 1150 bis ; but 
there is no such No. in Welwitsch’s herbarium. 
4, L. collomioides Alph. DC., /.c., p. 328; Hemsl., J.c., p. 475. 
Huitta.—Apparently biennial; habit almost of Jasione; root 
napiform, 1- or few-headed ; stem 1 to 2 ft. high, branched, purplish ; 
leaves alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate, wavy-crenate on the margin, 
bright green above very pallid beneath and therefore almost dis- 
colorous ; flowers terminal, densely capitate, involucrate, the involucral 
leaves almost similar to the cauline ones ; calyx green, rather fleshy, 
the limb 5-cleft; corolla clear blue or milky blue, 5-partite, the 
segments elongated ; stamens 5, inserted with the corolla ; filaments 
free, white and broadly dilated from the base up to a little below the 
apex, of the same colour as the corolla and narrowed at the apex ; 
anthers free ; style elongated, filiform, gradually passing into the 
simple clavate obtuse sub-pubescent stigma, pale bluish. In the damp 
elevated mountain pastures of Morro de Lopollo, at an elevation of 
5600 feet ; fl. 27 April 1860. No. 1163. 
5. L, annua Alph. DC., l.c., p. 329; Hemsl., dc., p. 475. 
Punco ANDONGO.—An annual, erect or ascending herb, scattered 
throughout with rather rigid white hairs, branched from the base ; 
branches long, virgate ; flowers blue or violet-coloured; stamens 5; 
filaments shortly clawed at the base, abruptly deltoid-dilated, tridentate, 
the lateral teeth very small, the intermediate tooth blue and articulate 
at its base with the top of the shaggy lamina ; style always pilose 
with spreading hairs; stigma rather clavate than capitate, usually 
pilose but occasionally glabrous ; capsule compressed-conical, usually 
smooth. In the drier open sandy thickets on the south side of the 
presidium, very plentiful about Caghuy; fl. and fr. beginning of 
April and in May 1857. No. 1147. Flowers violet-blue ; corolla- 
limb quite patent, almost declining-reflected ; capsule ovoid-pyramidal. 
In the more elevated rocky places among the gigantic rocks of the 
presidium ; fl. and young fr. end of April 1857. No. 1147). A 
tender, branched, annual herb, erect procumbent or ascending, in the 
living state pale green by reason of its whitish hispid hairs ; flowers 
small, pale blue. In stony and sandy pastures with sparse herbage 
along the road leading to Cambambe ; fl. May 1857. No. 1147c. 
Hvi11a.—Much branched from the base, the lower branches spread- 
ing elongated, all floribund ; flowers clear blue, pentamerous ; anthers 
very large, white ; filaments rhomboid-dilated at the base, whitish, 
blue a little below the insertion of the anthers ; style filiform ; stigma 
clavate, bilobed, the lobes cohering. In rocky pastures at the base of 
Morro de Lopollo, at Ferrio da Sola; fl. 14 May 1860. No. 1162. 
Habit almost of Prismatocarpus ; diffuse, somewhat pilose ; flower- 
buds pentagonal-columnar ; corolla deep blue inside, paler outside ; 
filaments very broad at the base, ciliate ; style exserted, smooth, not 
pilose ; stigma at first club-shaped and obtuse, at length bilobed with 
diverging lobes. In moist wooded pastures at the base of Morro de 
Lopollo ; fl. and fr. 8 April 1860. No. 1162+. Annual. Fr. March 
and April 1860. Cf. Cott. Carr. 692 (partly). 
