€28 Lxxiii. CAMPANULACEiE, [Lobelia 



datum Welw. herb. n. 19016, AnagalUs pumila Sw., and species of 

 Oentianaceae, Liviosella, and Eriocaulon, abundant ; fl. Dec. 1859 and 

 Feb. 1860. No. 1146. Fl. Oct. 1859. No. 1146^*. 

 This is nearly related to L. exilis Hochst. 



8. L. nuda Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 469. 



HuiLLA. — An erect, dichotomously and virgately branched herb, 

 ^ to 2 ft. high, flowering twice or even thrice in a year ; flowers blue. 

 In sandy sunny damp places flooded in summer near Lopollo and in 

 neglected plots, also along streams and by the aqueduct, plentiful ; fl. 

 and fr. Oct. to Dec. 1859, and Feb. and May 1860. No. 1146- 



2. CYPHIA Berg. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 554. 

 1. C. lobelioidea Welw, ms. in herb. 



Cyphia (sp.), Welw. in Journ. Linn. See. v. p. 187 (June 1861). 



A slender, glabrous or subglabrate, quite simple herb, with 

 the aspect of a Lobelia, perennial with a globose-tuberous root of 

 i in. diameter ; stem filiform, straight, 1 to 1^ ft. high, angular, 

 sparingly leafy, terminating in a raceme of flowers ; leaves linear 

 or narrowly lanceolate-linear, minutely denticulate, adpressed, 

 1^ to 1 1 in. long, sessile ; flowers violet-purple, bilabiate, ^ to i in. 

 long ; pedicels about yV in. long or shorter, equalling the brac- 

 teoles ; racemes spikelike, 1 to 5 in. long ; calyx ,somewhat 

 turbinate, |^ to ^ in. long, pubescent, deeply 5-cleft ; the segments 

 linear or nearly so, erect, persistent, sparingly and minutely 

 denticulate ; corolla quasi-tubular ; the tube pilose inside, opening 

 at the back ; the lobes of the limb 5, linear, i to i in. long, 

 pilose inside with white hairs, induplicate in the bud ; stamens 5, 

 hypogynous, persistent, inserted at the very base of the corolla- 

 tube, Jjj in. long ; the filaments flattened, glabrous or nearly so, 

 about as long as the antliers, whitish ; the anthers linear, all 

 curved-converging above the stigma, and bearded at the apex, 

 otherwise glabrous or nearly so ; ovary inferior ; style simple, 

 rather thick, incurved ; stigma thick, shortly indusiate, bearded 

 with white hairs. 



HuiLLA. — In damp wooded meadows between I-opollo and Morro 

 de Quilengues, plentiful here and there ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1135. 



A form with the stem branched occurs, but rarely. 



3. CEPHAIOSTIGMA A. DC; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 555. 

 1. C. Schimperi Hochst. in Plant. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 69 



{U. i. 1840) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 2 (1851). 



Wahlenbergia Schimperi Hochst., I.e., iii. n. 1964(1844). Light- 

 footia arenaria Alph. DC. in Ann. 8c. Nat., ser. 5, vi. p. 329 

 (1866) ; Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 476. C. hirmtum 

 Hemsl., I.e., p. 472 ; non Edgw. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb ; stem erect, 8 in. or scarcely a foot high, 

 branched from the base ; branches elongated ; leaves rather rigid, 

 sessile, lanceolate ; flowers solitary, axillary, arranged in a paniculate 

 manner ; corolla 5-cleft, from milk-white becoming purple ; the lobes 

 narrow, spreading during the flowering ; stigma 3-lobed. In sandy 

 places neglected after cultivation, also in plantations of maize, in 



