734 LXXXVII. CONVOLVULACES. | [pomea 
size of the flower, exceeding the stigma; the latter bicapitellate, 
each head consisting of white rather long cylindrical densely clustered 
papille ; in moist depressions near Penedo, Forte Conceigiio, fl. end of 
April 1858, Corolla violet-purple, tubular-rotate ; at Bemposta, fr. 
18 May 1859. No. 6237. 
BarRA DO BENGoO.—A herb ; root thick ; stems numerous, prostrate ; 
flowers sordidly violet-purple. In moist places between Quicuxe and 
Cacuaco ; only one specimen ; fl. Sept. 1858. No. 6236. 
MossaMEDES.—An annual, prostrate, herbaceous-green herb, with 
small purplish flowers. In sandy places at the banks of the river Bero ; 
fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 6133. 
10. I. linosepala Hall. f., /.c., p. 130 (22 Dec. 1893). 
I. wiphosepala Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 69 (Feb. 1894). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A persisting herb, 4 to 8 in. high; root thick, 
fusiform, tuberous ; stems numerous, ciespitose, rather erect ; corolla 
pale rosy outside, deep red inside, funnel-shaped-campanulate ; two of 
the stamens higher than the rest; stigma bicapitellate, whitish. In 
the rocky parts of the gigantic rocks near Catete ; fl. and fr. beginning 
of Jan. and in Feb. 1857. No. 6191. 
11. I. chloroneura Hall. f., /.c., p. 152. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—An annual erect herb ; branches from the base 
of the stem divaricate, ascending ; flowers (not fully expanded) 
whitish. In thickets, on volcanic sandstone conglomerate, near Lombe, 
at the river Cuanza; fl. March 1857. No. 6181. 
Hvuitia.—An annual herb, much branched from the base ; stem 
and branches prostrate, whip-like ; flowers funnel-shaped, whitish or 
very pale yellowish. In planted grounds and places neglected after 
cultivation, about Lopollo ; without fl. in Jan. and with fl. and fr. 
beginning of May 1860. No. 6182. 
12. I. ameena Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 365 (1845); Hall. f., 
l.c., p. 1383; non Blume. 
Ampriz.—At Quizembo ; fl.-bud, Nov. 1853. No. 6197. 
CazENGO.—In rocky thinly bushy places on the left bank of the 
river Luinha, in the ascent to Mount Muxaulo; not yet in fi. Dec. 
1854. Apparently this species. No. 6198. 
GoLunGo ALTO.—An annual twining herb, remarkable amongst its 
companions by reason of the peculiar silvery-metallic lustre of its 
foliage, one of the handsomest plants of the Order and an ornament 
to the reed-beds where it grows ; calyx 5-parted, densely beset outside 
with long hairs; the sepals unequal, the outer one larger than the 
rest ; corolla funnel-shaped, milk-white, the interior of the tube and 
throat violet-blood-red ; the lobes of the limb 5, rather obtuse, shortly 
and broadly ovate, penicillate-pilose at the apex ; stamens 5, inserted 
at the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers large, cordate-ovoid, attached 
at the sinuses to the filaments, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent ; ovary 
sessile, ovoid-conical, ending in the filiform style which falls a little 
short of the stamens, 2-celled, the cells bi-ovulate ; stigma capitate, 
large, obsoletely bilobed, usually bigibbous-globose. By thickets and in 
reed-beds in Sobato Mussengue, Bango, ete., not uncommon ; Bango, 
fl. 29 April 1854 ; on a rather dry sandy-clay soil near Canaulo, by the 
Ambaca road ; fl. June 1856. No. 6199. 
Punco AnpoNGO.—No notes. In fl. No. 6200. 
