Quamoclit | LXXXVII. CONVOLVULACE. 743 
Loanpa.—A twining, annual herb, with funnel-shaped purple flowers. 
Probably introduced ; fl. and fr. 20 May 1858. No. 6234. 
IsLAND or St. THomas.—At the bushy margins of fields ; fl.-bud 
Dec. 1860. Perhaps this species. No. 6212. 
2. Q. vulgaris Choisyin Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, vi. p. 434 (1834). 
Ipomea Quamoclit L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 159 (1753). Q. pinnata 
Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 224 (1837); Hall. f., 2c. Ipomea sp., 
Welw. Apontam. p. 551 sub n. 98. 
Prince’s Istanp.—By thickets near Baixa de Santo Antonio, wild 
but not indigenous ; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 6209. 
This handsome species is cultivated in some Loanda gardens. 
14. STICTOCARDIA Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 159 (22 
Dec. 1893) ; Peter in Engl. Nat. Pllanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 376 (1897). 
Argyreia Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 869, partly. 
1. S. tilieefolia Hall. f., Zc. 
Convolvulus tiliefolius Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl, Méth. iii. p. 544 
(1789). Rivea tiliefolia Choisy in Mém. Soc.fPhys. Genév. vi. p. 407 
(1834) ; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 234 (1852). 
CapE DE VERDE ISLANDS.— Petals rosy violet in colour, very fugacious. 
In bushy places on Monte Verde, on the island of St. Vincent, at an 
elevation of 800 to 1000 ft. ; fl. end of Aug. 1853. No. 6213. 
15. CUSCUTA Tournef., L.; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. PI. 11. p. 881. 
1. C. planiflora Tenore, Fl]. Nap. iii. p. 250 (1824-9) ; Engelm. 
in Trans. Acad. Sc. St. Louis, i. p. 464 (1859). 
Cuscuta (sp.), Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 185 (1861). 
Var. (?) mossamedensis (Welw. ms. in herb.). 
A slender, twining, leafless, glabrous or minutely glandular- 
puberulous herb; stems filiform, smooth, purple-bloodred or even 
orange-coloured at the nodes, very intricately twisted, flexible, 
rather tenacious, floribund; flowers globose-urceolate, closely 
clustered, about 54, to 4, in. in diameter, sessile or subsessile ; the 
clusters globose, } to + in. in diameter; calyx green-reddish, 
4lobed ; the segments broadly ovate, obtuse or apiculate ; corolla 
white, thinly scarious-membranous, scarcely as long as the calyx, 
4-cleft ; the lobes triangular, acute, rather spreading; stamens 4, 
inserted on the corolla-tube near the top, scarcely included ; anthers 
yellow, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; ovary obovoid-globose, 
turgid, 2-celled, 4-ovulate; style bipartite; stigmas linear, about 
as long as the ovary ; capsule circumsciss at the base, imperfectly 
‘2-celled ; seeds usually 4, ,4, in. long, obovoid, chestnut-brown or 
yellowish dusky, erect. 
MossaMEDEs.—Parasitic on Merremia multisecta Hallier f. (Welw. 
herb. no. 6112), between Cazimba and Mossamedes by the road to Cabo 
Negro, in gravelly sub-maritime stations flooded in the rainy season, 
sometimes more than a mile from the ocean, plentiful but seen nowhere 
else ; fl. and fr. 4 Sept. 1859. No. 6141 and Cot. Carp. 112. 
2. C. blepharolepis Welw. ms. in herb. 
A herb, fleshy throughout, brittle, of a deep orange or saffron 
colour; stems cylindrical, smooth ; flowers sessile or subsessile, 
