Ipomcea] Lxxxvii. convolvulace/E. 730 



and deep violet-purple almost l>Iood-red flowers. At the Dolamboa. 

 No. 6148. Leaves uniform. At the river Delamboa, Aug. 1H5(). Cni.i,. 

 Caki'. 773. 



26. I. Protea Rcndle Sc Britten in Journ. Bot. .xxxii.p. 170(1894). 

 PuNou Am.onc...— At Quitage ; «. [10 March 18.")7]. No. 6192. 



In Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 109 (1893) Dr. H. Hallier suggested the 

 reference of this plant to CiuivolruJus canarienHia L. ; but he had not 

 seen any flower of it. It is allied to /. amrifolia Roem. iV: Schult. 



27. I. biloba Forsk. Fl. yEgypt. - Arab. p. 44 (1775). 

 Convolvulus Pes caprm L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 159 (1753). /. Pts 



Gapro' Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 109 (1821) ; Hall, f., I.e., p. 145. 



LoAXOA. — A luxuriant plant : the sarmentose branches creeping, 

 more than 50 ft. long, often 06 ft., rarely rooting here and there, and 

 giving off flowering fascicles of leaves : leaves fleshy, rigid, glossy, 

 deep green ; flowers purplish. In sandy maritime places, plentifid : 

 at Praia de Zamba grande ; fl. and fr. March and April WM. No. 6240. 

 Leaves fleshy, rather shining, evergreen ; flowers whitish and pur])lc 

 variegated, handsome, occurring nearly the whole year : in gravelly 

 places on the Loanda island near S. Paulo de Loanda ; seeds, Feb. 

 1854. Stolons about 30 to 50 ft. long ; in gravelly places at the sea- 

 coast, plentiful and handsome : fr. May 1854. Coli,. Cakp. 109. At 

 Praia de Zamba grande ; fr. May 1858 ; also at Praia de S. Thiago : 

 fr. Sept. 1858. Coll. Carp. 703. 



Mosi^AMEDKS. — Flowers purple. In gravelly places by the ocean 

 near Mossamedes, not plentiful : fl. July 1859. No. 6125. On the 

 sandy sea-shore near the city ; fr. July 1859. Coll. Caup. 776. 



28. I. Welwitschii Vatke ex Hall, f., I.e., p. 146. 



HuiLLA. — Corolla white-rosy. In bushy pastures between Nene 

 and Mumpulla and near LopoUo : fl. Dec. 1859. No. 6120. 



/?. latifolia Britten, Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 85 (March 1894). 

 /. asjyericanlis Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 70 (Feb.). 

 HuiLLA.— In fl. and fr. No. 6120ft. 



29. I. dissecta Wilkl. Phytogr. p. 5, t. 2 (1794) ; non Pursh (1814). 

 Convolvulus eopticns L. Mant. PI. alt. ]). 559 (1771). I.coptica 



Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. p. 110 (1821) ; Hall, f., I.e., p. 147. /. multi- 

 secta Wehv. Apontain. p. 589. n. 75 (1859). 



Loanda. — A herb, doubtfully annual or in copiously rainy seasons 

 lasting for several years ; stems numerous, prostrate, sarmentose 

 spreading in a circle, 2 to 5 ft. long : flowers white : on herbaceous 

 hills in moist spots, above Loanda ; at Alto das Cruzes : fl. and fr. 

 March 1854. An apparently perennial herb : root rather thick ; 

 stems many, branched, whip-like, 2 to 4 ft. long, prostrate in a 

 stellate manner ; branchlets ascending ; leaves multisect, with linear 

 segments : peduncles axillary, a little longer than the petiole, bearing 

 about 2 or mostly only 1 flower, twice bibracteoiatc : corolla cam- 

 panulate, milk-white, .'j in. long, twice as long as the muricnlate calyx : 

 in hilly herbaceous places in depressions quite dry in winter hut floodeil 

 in summer : fl. and fr. May and June 1858. No. 6253. A low, 

 perennial herb ; branches much divided, prostrate in all directions : 

 leaves much cut : flowers white, gamopetalous. At Alto das Cruzes ; 

 fr. July 1858. Coll. Cakp. 765. 



