Tpomea | LXXXVII. CONVOLVULACES. 739 
and deep violet-purple almost blood-red flowers. At the Delamboa. 
No. 6148. Leaves uniform. At the river Delamboa, Aug. 1856. Co.u. 
Carp. 773. 
26. I. Protea Rendle & Britten in Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 176 (1894). 
Puneo ANDONGO.—At Quitage ; fl. [10 March 1857]. No. 6192. 
In Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 109 (1893) Dr. H. Hallier suggested the 
reference of this plant to Convolvulus canariensis L.; but he had not 
seen any flower of it. It is allied to /. asarifolia Roem. & Schult. 
27. I. biloba Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.-Arab. p. 44 (1775). 
Convolvulus Pes capre L, Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 159 (1753). I. Pes 
Capre Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 109 (1821) ; Hall. f., d.c., p. 145. 
Loanpa.—A luxuriant plant; the sarmentose branches creeping, 
more than 50 ft. long, often 66 ft., rarely rooting here and there, and 
giving off flowering fascicles of leaves ; leaves fleshy, rigid, glossy, 
deep green ; flowers purplish. In sandy maritime places, plentiful ; 
at Praia de Zamba grande; fl. and fr. Marchand April 1858. No. 6240. 
Leaves fleshy, rather shining, evergreen ; flowers whitish and purple 
variegated, handsome, occurring nearly the whole year; in gravelly 
places on the Loanda island near 8. Paulo de Loanda ; seeds, Feb. 
1854. Stolons about 30 to 50 ft. long; in gravelly places at the sea- 
coast, plentiful and handsome ; fr. May 1854. Cou. Carp. 109. At 
Praia de Zamba grande; fr. May 1858; also at Praia de S. Thiago ; 
fr. Sept. 1858. Coun. Carp. 763. 
MossaMEDES.—Flowers purple. In gravelly places by the ocean 
near Mossamedes, not plentiful; fl. July 1859. No. 6125. On the 
sandy sea-shore near the city ; fr. July 1859. Coun. Carp. 776. 
28. I. Welwitschii Vatke ex Hall. f., l.c., p. 146. 
HuiLua,—Corolla white-rosy. In bushy pastures between Nene 
and Mumpulla and near Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 6120. 
B. latifolia Britten, Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 85 (March 1894). 
I. aspericaulis Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 70 (Feb.). 
Houriia.—In fl. and fr. No. 61200. 
29. I. dissecta Willd. Phytogr. p. 5, t. 2(1794); non Pursh (1814). 
Convolvulus copticus LL, Mant. Pl. alt. p.559 (1771). J. coptiea 
Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. p. 110 (1821) ; Hall. f., Ze, p. 147. J. multe- 
secta Welw. Apontam. p. 589. n. 75 (1859). 
Loanpa.—A herb, doubtfully annual or in copiously rainy seasons 
lasting for several years; stems numerous, prostrate, sarmentose, 
spreading in a circle, 2 to 5 ft. long ; flowers white ; on herbaceous 
hills in moist spots, above Loanda ; at Alto das Cruzes ; fl. and fr. 
March 1854. An apparently perennial herb; root rather thick ; 
stems many, branched, whip-like, 2 to 4 ft. long, prostrate in a 
stellate manner ; branchlets ascending ; leaves multisect, with linear 
segments ; peduncles axillary, a little longer than the petiole, bearing 
about 2 or mostly only 1 flower, twice bibracteolate ; corolla cam- 
panulate, milk-white, + in. long, twice as long as the muriculate calyx ; 
in hilly herbaceous places in depressions quite dry in winter but flooded 
in summer; fl. and fr. May and June 1858. No. 6253. A low, 
perennial herb ; branches much divided, prostrate in all directions ; 
leaves much cut ; flowers white, gamopetalous. At Alto das Cruzes ; 
fr. July 1858. Coun. Carp. 765. 
