Ipomeea} LXXXVII. CONVOLVULACEA. 737 
Delamboa at the foot of Munguella grande; with fl. beginning of 
Aug. 1856. Native name ‘“ Quidingo Cambonge.”’ The leaves are 
cooked with fungi and greedily eaten by the negroes as a kind of 
spinach. No. 6173. 
MossaAMEDES.—Quinquefoliolate. Everywhere cultivated, very 
plentiful. At Cavalheiros; fl. July 1859. Colonial name “ Card,” 
a name imported from Brazil. No. 6135. Leaves simple, angled, the 
angles abruptly acute. Excursion to Costa; fl. July 1859. Cultivated 
by the Portuguese colonists, but less frequently than the plant with 
quinquefid-palmate leaves; fl. July; fr. Aug. 1859. No. 61384. 
20. I. ochracea G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 270 (1837); Hall. f., 
l.c., p. 140. Convolwulus ochraceus Lindl. Bot. Reg, t. 1060 (1827). 
I. ophthalmantha Hall. f., .c., p. 141, partly. 
Ampriz.—At Mubanbe on the lake near Quibanga; fl. No. 6174. 
LoanpDa.—A_ prostrate herb; root woody, perennial; stems 
numerous; branches elongated, procumbent, twining at the apex; 
leaves rather glossy, membranous, deep green ; flowers bright, of an 
orange-sulphur colour with the tube brilliantly violet-purple. In dry 
places cultivated as well as in uncultivated ones, very plentiful 
throughout the district, flowering nearly the whole year; between 
Quicuxe and Alto das Cruzes, April 1854 and Aug. 1858; in sandy 
plains from Loanda towards Quicuxe, Teba, Imbondeiro dos Lobos, 
etc., at Quicuxe, 7 Feb. 1859. No. 6245. 
GoLunGco ALTo.—Stem velvety at the base with long white very 
soft hairs, readily twining; flowers of a deep sulphur colour, expanded 
from 9 in the forenoon to 3 in the afternoon, closed at other times. 
Among reeds and tall grasses throughout the district, plentiful ; at 
Menha lula; fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 6176. By the Ambaca road; 
fl. and fr. July and Aug. 1856. No. 6175. 
21. I. humifera Rendle in Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 177 (1894). 
I. Barteri, var. cordifolia Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. p. 543 
(4 July 1898). 
Punco ANDonGo.—A herb, apparently perennial, spreading along 
the ground, not climbing ; leaves membranous, rather rigid ; flowers 
purple, tubular, the tube comparatively long. In the wooded thickets 
of Mata de Pungo; fl. middle of April 1857. No. 6177. In small 
forests above Quibinda ; in fl.-bud. No. 6178. 
The following No. perhaps belongs here :— 
Puneo Anponego.—A delicate herb, growing in the shady forest 
among low herbs; stem decumbent-twining ; flowers very bright 
white-purpurascent. In rather dense forest near Mutollo near Pedras 
de Guinga ; fl. March 1857. Only one poor specimen. No. 6179. 
22. I. hellebarda Schweinf. ms. in Herb. Gallab. (1865) n. 2176, 
& ex Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 142. 
I. sagittata Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 467 (1849); Hall. f., 
Lc.; non Poir. (1789). 
Var. sarcopoda (Welw. ms. in herb). ™ 
A perennial herb; rhizome thick, fleshy-woody ; stems several, 
prostrate, slender, cylindrical; branches virgate-twining ; leaves 
subglaucous beneath; peduncles fleshy-thickened from the base 
upwards, hard, three times thicker than the contiguous stem, 
