732 LXXXVII. CONVOLVULACEJi. [Ip077lcea 



with the bicapitellate stigma. In -flooded places, drying up, near 

 Imbondeiro dos Lobos, very rare ; fr. and very few fl. 8 June 1858. 

 No. 6235 (partly). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — No notes. In fl. and fr. No. 6235 (partly). 



2. I. eriocarpa R. Br. Prodr. p. 484 (1810). 



Convolvulus hispidus Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. p. 29 (1794). 

 /. hispida Eoem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. p. 238 (1819); Hall, 

 f., I.e., p. 123, partly. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Corolla pale rosy, marked within with purple 

 lines. At the Perreira stream ; fl. 15 May 1855. There is in the 

 study set a flower, 1 in. long, H in. in diameter, with obtuse sepals and 

 tubular-funnel-shaped corolla-tube, apparently belonging to a diff'erent 

 species. No. 6144. A prostrate herb, with long sarmentose branches 

 and sordidly whitish flowers. On the more elevated slopes of the 

 Queta mountains amongst sparse herbage ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1855. 

 No. 6231. A herb, apparently annual, running far along the ground 

 amongst other herbs, stoloniferous and whip-like, sometimes climbing 

 extensively ; flowers pale blue, tubular-campanulate, the limb nearly 

 erect. By fences and the lower thickets near Canaulo on the Ambaca 

 road ; fl. May 1856. The specimens stained paper brown. No. 6232. 

 A twining herb, annual or triennial ; leaves exceedingly variable in 

 shape, often heteromorphous in one and the same individual plant ; 

 flowers small, campanulate, sometimes white, sometimes red ; by 

 thickets near the banks of the river Delamboa ; fl. and fr. June 1856. 

 No. 6196. Sepals very unequal ; corolla milk or rarely violet red, 

 funnel-shaped ; the lobes of the limb broad, sub-repand on the margin, 

 obtuse, sometimes keeled on the back, tipped with a very short pencil 

 of slender hairs ; stamens inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, 

 included ; filaments unequal in length, bearded at the base, com- 

 paratively large, white : ovary conical, hirsute, girt at the base with 

 the thin disk ; stigma capitate-bilobed, scarcely exceeding the stamens. 

 Near the banks of the Delamboa ; fl. June 1853, also at Bango (corolla 

 violet-coloured, small, with an erect limb), June 1856. No. 6233. 



3. I. cynanchifolia C. B. CI. in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 208 

 (1883), partly; Hall. f. in. Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. p. 538 (1898). 



LoANDA. — In flooded places, drying up, near Imbondeiro dos Lobos, 

 very rare ; fr. 8 June 1858. No. 6235 (partly). 



4. I. blepharophylla Hall, f., I.e., p. 125. 



Ambaca. — A perennial herb ; root thick, nodose ; stems sarmentose, 

 prostrate ; flowers of a pleasant violet-purplish colour or occasionally 

 deep rosy. In dry plains and at the margins of fields, from Izange to 

 N-gombe ; fl. Oct. 1866. This plant stains paper brown. No. 6193. 



5. I. crassipes Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 4068 (1844). 



/. cabjstegioides IL. Mey. in Flora, 1843, Bes. Beig. pp. 145, 153, 

 195 (name) ; Dr^geex Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 431 (1845) ; Hall, 

 f., I.e., ji. 127. /. adumbrata Rendle & Britten in Journ. Bot xxxii. 

 p. 173 (1894). Convolvulus uhamhensis 0. Kimtze, Bev. Gen. 

 PI. iii. 2. p. 215 (1898). 



HuiLLA. — On hills, among low bushes near Empalanca, sparingly ; 

 fl. Dec. 1859. Corolla in the dry state widely funnel-shaped. 1.^ in. 

 long, pale, with short apiculate ciliate lobes. No. 6130- In sunny 

 places among low bushes at Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1869. No. 6128. 



