Commelina'] xiv. commelinace.e. 77 



GoLUNGo Alt(X — Nov. Also north of Amuriz. Material insufficient 

 for certain determination. Xo. 6612. 



7. C. angolensis C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 167 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 

 HuiLi.A. — A perennial herb, with several oblique purplish stems, 



branching at the apex, leaves herbaceous-green : flowers small, yellow. 



Sporadic in sandy herb-grown places near Lopollo, behind the fortress. 



In fl. Doc. 1859. Monino : Jan. 1860. No. 6583. Decumbent. 



Flowers yellow. On the marshy margins of woods. Morro de Lopollo. 



April 1860. No. 6593. 



The following which bears no fruit may belong to this species, 

 PuNGO Andongo. — Roots fleshy-fibrous, shoots spread stellately on 



the ground, branches elongated, branched again, prostrate. Leaves 



rigid, subglaucous. Flowers deep sulphur-coloured. Wooded thickets 



in ferruginous mud, Sobato Cabanga. In fl. middle of Jan. 1857. 



No. 6626; 



8. C. Forskalaei Vahl Enum. PI. ii. p. 172 (1806); C. B. 

 Clarke, I.e., p. 168 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 425. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — A succulent decumbent herb, soon ascending, 

 climbing among the firmer grasses. Flowers dark blue, rather large, 

 spreading. Damp meadows on the river Cuanza near N-billa, March 



1857. No. 6634. 



9. C. Kotschyi Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. p. 207 

 (1867); C. B. Clarke, I.e., p. 173 ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 426. 



Barra do Bengo. — A glaucous-green herb, with ascending green 

 stems, leaf-sheaths livid purple ; flowers deep dark blue. Thickets 

 very dry in winter, flooded in summer, between Teba and Cacuaco. 

 May 1858. No. 6624. 



LoANDA. — An annual herb with purple prostrate-ascending stalks 

 and sky-blue flowers. Short thicket-grown sunny stony places with 

 a species of Aloe, etc., near Quicuxe, April 1854. No. 6614. Dense 

 thickets of Alto das Cruzes towards Museque de Luiz Gomes, May 

 and July 1854. No. 6620. 



10. C. latifolia Pdch. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 340 (1851); C. B. 

 Clarke, I.e. ; Durand & 8chinz, I.e. 



Ambriz. — Shrubby damp places near the river Quizembo, Nov. to 

 Dec. 1853. No. 6615 (in part). 



LoANDA. — An annual, more rarely biennial herb, shoots 3 to 6 ft., 

 oblique, weak, half-climbing among shrubs, green-purplish, angled, 

 sheaths glandular-hairy, subviscous. Leaves most variable, often poly- 

 morphic in the same specimen, narrowly lanceolate and elliptical. 

 Flowers sky-blue. Plentiful in thickets of Capparide^ about Alto 

 das Cruzes. In fr. Feb. 1H58. No. 6613. Annual, at first erect and 

 flowering when scarcely a foot high, soon branched, branches spreading, 

 reaching 3 to 7 ft. in length and half-climbing among shrubs. Flowers 

 dark blue, rather small, fugacious. Very plentiful in damp places with 

 low undergrowth and by the sides of streams near Quicuxe. Flowering 

 from Nov. to end of May 1858. Reared from seed from Libongo taken 

 from a pigeon's crop. Flowered in VVelwitsch's garden at Loanda Nov. 



1858. No. 6615 (in part). Plentiful in thickets near the sea at Praia 

 de Zamba grande, near Loanda. End of June and beginning of July 

 1854. No. 6616. Annual, H to 3 ft., stem branched from the base, 

 branches suberect. Flowers sky-blue. Thickets on poor sandy soil 

 near Maianga de Povo, May 1854. No. 6618. 



