Lobelia] lxxiii. campanulace^. 6^7 



portion of the corolla, two of them bearded at the tip ; seeds 

 obtusely trigonous. 



HriLLA. — In somewhat spongy pastures with short herbage, near 

 Mumpulla towards Nene, in company with Trifolium snihrdtwtdum 

 Steud., var. obcordatum Welw., not abundant ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 1144. 



5. L. Welwitschii Engl, k Diels in Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. p. 116 

 (Sept. 27, 1898). 



A glabrous herb, 5 to 8 in. high ; root perennial ; rhi/.ome 

 creeping, branched; stems usually numerous, siajple, erect or 

 ascending or the young shoots creeping, narrowly winged and 

 leafy chiefly on the lower part ; leaves alternate, obovate or the 

 upper ones sublinear, rounded or obtusely pointed at the apex, 

 sessile, subentii^e or repand-denticulate, \ in. long, narrowly 

 decurrent ; flowers deep azure-blue, i in. long, on rather slender 

 pedicels of \ to t} in. long, arranged in racemes of 1 to 4 in. long 

 terminating the stems; calyx ^ to i in. long; the tube somewhat 

 funnel-shaped ; the lobes narrowly lanceolate-linear, rather acute, 

 j^y in. long ; corolla unilabiate, with three oval-oblong lobes 

 about as long as the tube and two narrow smaller ones ; anther- 

 tube somewhat hairy on the back, rather exceeding the undivided 

 portion of the corolla, two anthers bearded at the tip ; seeds 

 somewhat compressed. 



HuiLLA. — In damp sandy places along streams about Lopollo, rather 

 rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 1143. 



Var. albiflora. 



Rhizome strong ; stems less numerous, 5 in. high ; flowers white. 



HuiLLA. — In moist sandy places, drying up after the October rains, 

 near Xene towards Empalanca, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 1141. 



6. L. fervens Thunb. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 46 (1818); Hemsl. in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 468. 



MossAMEDES. — An herbaceous-green, not glaucous, annual herb, 

 flaccid throughout, subsarmentose, decumbent, or subscandent among 

 other herbs ; flowers blue. In moist sandy places with shrubs and 

 short herbage along the banks of the river Maiombo, near Pdo ; fl. and 

 fr. Oct. 1859. No. 1143. 



7. L. angolensis Engl. & Diels, I.e., p. 114. 



A glabrate or weakly pubescent, rather fleshy herb, 1 to 3 in. 

 high, casspitose at the base, with the habit of Glaux ; stems decum- 

 bent or erect, not conspicuously angular, sometimes rooting below, 

 leafy ; leaves alteimate, oval or somewhat- obovate, obtuse, sub- 

 sessile, not or scarcely decurrent, i to i in. long, entire ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, | in. long, violet-coloured or lilac ; pedicels 

 rather slender, ] to -} in. long ; calyx i in. long, thinly pubescent, 

 broadly campanulate, deeply 5-cleft ; the lobes lanceolate, about 

 equalling the corolla-tube ; anthers puberulous on the back, two 

 of them bearded at the tip. 



HuiLLA. — In swampy pastures with dense and short herbage near 

 Lopollo, in company with Trifolium suhrolundnm Steud., var. ohcor- 



