630 LXXIII. CAMPANULACE^, \Lujhtfootia 



the base, gradually thickened upwards, pubescent ; stigmas 3, ovoid- 

 oblong, rather thick, erect-patent, papillose on the inner face ; capsule 

 pyramidal when young, H-celled, half-dehiscent at the apex. In 

 secondary woods and rather dry thickets on the right bank of the 

 river Cuanza, sporadic but widely scattered ; fl. and young fr. 21 and 

 22 Jan. 1857. No. 1150. 



Alph. De Candolle, /.r., cites for this species also No. 1150 i/s ; but 

 there is no such Xo. in Welwitsch's herbarium. 



4. L. collomioides Alph. DC, I.e., p. 328 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 475, 

 HriLLA. — Apparently biennial ; habit almost of Jaxione ; root 



napiform, 1- or few-headed ; stem 1 to 2 ft. high, branched, purplish ; 

 leaves alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate, wavy-crenate on the margin, 

 bright green above very pallid beneath and therefore almost dis- 

 colorous ; flowers terminal, densely capitate, involucrate, the involucral 

 leaves almost similar to the cauline ones ; calyx green, rather fleshy, 

 the limb 5-cleft ; corolla clear blue or milky blue, 5-partite, the 

 segments elongated ; stamens 5, inserted with the corolla ; filaments 

 free, white and broadly dilated from the base up to a little below the 

 apex, of the same colour as the corolla and narrowed at the apex ; 

 anthers free ; style elongated, filiform, gradually passing into the 

 simple clavate obtuse sub-pubescent stigma, pale bluish. In the damp 

 elevated mountain pastures of Morro de Lopollo, at an elevation of 

 5600 feet ; fl. 27 April 1860. No. 1163. 



5. L. annua Alph. DC, I.e., p. 329 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 475, 

 PuNGo Andongo. — An annual, erect or ascending herb, .scattered 



throughout with rather rigid white hairs, branched from the base ; 

 branches long, virgate ; flowers blue or violet-coloured ; stamens 5 ; 

 filaments shortly clawed at the base, abruptly deltoid-dilated, tridentate, 

 the lateral teeth very small, the intermediate tooth blue and articulate 

 at its base with the top of the shaggy lamina ; style always pilose 

 with spreading hairs ; stigma rather clavate than capitate, usually 

 pilose but occasionally glabrous ; capsule compressed-conical, usually 

 smooth. In the drier open sandy thickets on the south side of the 

 presidium, very plentiful about Caghuy ; fl. and fr. beginning of 

 April and in May 1857. No. 1147- Flowers violet-blue ; corolla- 

 limb quite patent, almost declining-reflected ; capsule ovoid-pyramidal. 

 In the more elevated rocky places among the gigantic rocks of the 

 praesidium ; fl. and young fr, end of April 1857. No. 1147&. A 

 tender, branched, annual herb, erect procumbent or ascending, in the 

 living state pale green by reason of its whitish hispid hairs ; flowers 

 small, pale blue. In stony and sandy pastures with sparse herbage 

 along the road leading to Cambambe ; fl. May 1857. No. 1147c. 



HriLLA. — Much branched from the base, the lower branches spread- 

 ing elongated, all floribund ; flowers clear blue, pentamerous ; anthers 

 very large, white ; filaments rhomboid-dilated at the base, whitish, 

 blue a little below the insertion of the anthers ; style filiform ; stigma 

 clavate, bilobed, the lobes cohering. In rocky pastures at the base of 

 Morro de Lopollo, at Ferrao da Sola ; fl. 14 May 1860. No. 1162. 

 Habit almost of Primnatocarpm ; dift'use, somewhat pilose ; flower- 

 buds pentagonal-columnar ; corolla deep blue inside, paler outside ; 

 filaments very broad at the base, ciliate ; style exserted, smooth, not 

 pilose ; stigma at first club-shaped and obtuse, at length bilobed with 

 diverging lobes. In moist wooded pastures at the base of Morro de 

 Lopollo ; fl. and fr. 8 April 1860. No. \\%2h. Annual, Fr, March 

 ^nd April 1860. Cf. Coll. Carp, 692 (partly). 



