€ephalostig7na] Lxxiii. campanulace^. 629 



company with species of Commel/na, in the Monin ocountry ; fl. and 

 fr. 1 May 18G0. No. 1155. Leaves broadly lanceolate vaguely 

 undulate, entire ; flowers pentamerous, very fugacious ; corolla-lobes 

 much narrowed from a rather broad base ; style filiform, exserted ; 

 stigmatic lobes rather thick, subspathulate, spreading ; seeds cylindrical- 

 ellipsoidal, bright dusky, quite glabrous, shining. In nearly dry sandy 

 thickets and among crops of mays, near LopoUo ; fl. and fr. 8 May 

 1800. No. 1155i>. 



Annual. Fr. with ripe seeds, March and April 18G0. Cf. Coll. 

 Oakp. 692 (partly). 



2. C. CandoUeanum. 



LightfootiapanicidataA. DO., I.e., 331; Hemsl., I.e., 476 ; non Send. 



HuiLLA. — A very slender, annual herb, scarcely a foot high ; stems 

 several, ascending ; flowers pale blue or whitish. In drying-up swampy 

 places throughout the district ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859 ; also in 

 •damp meadows along the banks of the Ferrao river, in company with 

 orchids (probably Satyrium paludosuia Reichenb. f. ; Welw. herb. n. 

 727) ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1153. 



The stigmatic lobes are short and broad at the apex of the filiform 

 style. This is not the same as C. ptiuiculatum Alph. DC. nor as the 

 plant so named by Wallich. 



4. LIGHTFOOTIA L'Herit. ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 555. 



1. L. tenuifolia Alph. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, vi. p. 327 

 (1866) ; Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 475. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers nearly milky-white with bluish tint. In wooded 

 pastures and on bushy slopes near the lake of Ivantala ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. and beginning of April 1800. No. 1157. Perennial ; flowers 

 milky-blue. In bushy wooded parts of the Monino country, and also 

 in shady forests ; fl. and fr. beginning of Feb. 1800. No. 1159. 



2. L. marginata Alph. DC, I.e., p. 326 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 474. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers pale blue. In sandy pastures with short herb- 

 age, near Lopollo, Nov. 1859 ; also in hilly places among low bushes 

 from Humpata as far as the lake Ivantala, and along the road leading 

 to Quilengues, abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. and April 1860. No. 1156. 

 Corolla whitish-blue. In wooded meadows near Eme, Feb. 1800 ; also 

 in herbaceous bushy places at the outskirts 'of forests between 

 Catumba and Ohai. A shaggy form of the species. No. 11566 

 Root vertical, apparently biennial. In rocky wooded places from 

 Catumba towards Ohai ; a few specimens ; fl. and fr. April 1800. 

 No. 1158. 



3. L. napiformis Alph. DC, I.e., p. 328; Hemsl., I.e., p. 475. 

 PuNGO Andongo.^ — A perennial herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, with a woody 



rootstock, suberect or ascending ; stem virgately branched, beset 

 almost on all sides with rather rigid hairs ; calyx herbaceous-green, 

 the tube adnate to the base of the ovary, the limb 5 -cleft ; corolla 

 inserted on the top of the calyx-tube, of a pale violet colour, deeply 

 6-partite, the segments rigidly pilose ; stamens 5 ; filaments free, 

 gradually dilated from the base, sub-trilobate, the lateral lobes very 

 short and ciliate, the intermediate lobe larger elongated and at the 

 apex bearing the anther ; ovary covered up to the middle by the 

 adnate calyx, 3-celled ; ovules numerous, inserted near the bottom 

 of the cells on the central jjlacontas ; styles exserted, filiform from 



