Lightfootia| LXXIII, CAMPANULACEE. 631 
6. L. gracilis Alph. DC., /.c., p. 330; Hemsl., lc., p. 476. 
Houiira.—A little annual herb, 3 to 4 in. high ; stem corymbosely 
branched towards the apex ; flowers clear blue. In swampy somewhat. 
peaty pastures near Humpata; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1151. 
7. L, exilis Alph. DC., /.c., p. 330; Hemsl., /.c., p. 476. 
Hvuitta.—A tender, little, annual herb, 3 to 5 in. high; stem 
patently branched ; flowers from milky to bluish ; corolla-limb patent 
at the time of the flower, soon flaccid-collapsing. In moist pastures. 
on the Humpata plateau, in sandy-earthy places with short herbage,, 
very plentiful ; fl. April 1860. No. 1152. 
8. L. debilis Alph. DC., Z.c., p. 331; Hemsl., l.c., p. 476. 
Huvitia.—Habit almost of some species of Galiwm ; flowers milk-- 
white. In moist pastures among low herbs and scattered bushes at- 
the outskirt of the forest near Catumba ; fl. beginning of April 1860. 
No. 1154. 
9. L. Welwitschii Alph. DC., /.c., p. 332; Hemsl., .c., p, 477. 
Punco ANnonGo.—An annual herblet, with the habit of a large 
specimen of Asterolinon stellatum Hoffmansegg & Link ; primary stem. 
erect ; branches elongated, ascending, weak; leaves cartilaginous on 
the margin ; calyx exceeding the corolla, stellate-patent at the time of 
the flower as are also the corolla-lobes ; corolla livid-yellowish ; style 
clavate above, undivided or scarcely or obsoletely bilobed at the apex,. 
clear blue, not bearded; capsule compressed-conical. In a damp 
wooded meadow between Caghuy and Sansamanda at the river Cuanza, 
plentiful but only in one spot, in company with Jsoetes equinoctialis 
Welw. herb. n. 50 and species of Hypoxis and Fuirena ; fl. and fr. 
2 May 1857. No. 1149. Ina moist rocky-sandy place near Catete in 
the presidium, very sparingly ; only two specimens seen, without 
either fl. or fr. April 1857. Apparently a form of thisspecies. No. 1148. 
5. CERVICINA Delile, Fl. Egypte, p. 150 (1812), t. 5, fig. 2,. 
& Illustr. p. 50. 
Wahlenbergia Schrad. Cat. Hort. Gotting. (1814); Benth. & 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 555. Campanula § Campanopsis R. Br. 
Prodr. p. 561 (1810). 
1. C. huillana. 
Wahlenbergia huillana Alph. DC. in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 5,. 
vi. p. 333 (1866) ; Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 479; incl. 
var. pusilla Alph. DC., lc. Campanopsis huillana O. Kuntze,. 
Rey. Gen. Pl. (ii.), p. 379 (1891). 
HviLtia.—An annual or occasionally biennial herb, with the habit 
of av Alsine, lactescent ; stems several, ascending, much branched ;, 
flowers trimerous or tetramerous, from whitish to very pale bluish, 
the tetramerous ones shaped almost like those of an Asperula or 
Galium ; calyx-lobes unequal ; anthers distinct. In marshy wooded 
places from Lopollo towards the lake of Ivantala, but met with only 
in a few spots; fl. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 1161. Flowers. 
whitish, In the poor elevated pastures of Empalanca, with short. 
herbage, flooded in the rainy season, that is, in summer, abundant ;. 
fl. end of Feb. 1860. This contains the var. pusilla Alph. DC., which 
was a young plant of the species, and according to Welwitsch is not. 
really a variety. No. 1160. 
