■628 Lxxiii. CAMPANULACE^. [Lobelia 



datum Welw. herb. n. 19016, AnagalUs pumila Sw., and species of 

 Oentianacese, Limosella, and Eriocaulon, abundant ; fl. Dec. 1859 and 

 Peb. 1860. No. 1146. Fl. Oct. 1869. No. 1146J. 

 This is nearly related to L. exilis Hochst. 



8. L. nuda Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 469. 



HuiLLA. — An erect, dichotomously and yirgately branched herb, 

 -J to 2 ft. high, flowering twice or even thrice in a year ; flowers blue. 

 In sandy sunny damp places flooded in summer near Lopollo and in 

 neglected plots, also along streams and by the aqueduct, plentiful ; fl. 

 and fr. Oct. to Dec. 1869, and Feb. and May 1860. No. 1145. 



2. CYPHIA Berg. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 554. 

 1. C. lobelioid.es Welw. ms. in herb. 



Cyphia (sp.), Welw. in Journ. Linn. Sec. v. p. 187 (June 1861). 



A slender, glabrous or subglabrate, quite simple herb, with 

 the aspect of a Lobelia, perennial with a globose-tuberous root of 

 ^ in. diameter ; stem filiform, straight, 1 to 1|- ft. high, angular, 

 sparingly leafy, terminating in a raceme of flowers ; leaves linear 

 or narrowly lanceolate-linear, minutely denticulate, adpressed, 

 i to 1| in. long, sessile ; flowers violet-purple, bilabiate, ^ to i in. 

 long ; pedicels about -^ in. long or shorter, equalling the brao- 

 teoles ; racemes spikelike, 1 to 5 in. long ; calyx ^somewhat 

 turbinate, -g- to g in. long, pubescent, deeply 5-cleft ; the segments 

 linear or nearly so, erect, persistent, sparingly and minutely 

 denticulate ; corolla quasi-tubular ; the tube pilose inside, opening 

 at the back ; the lobes of the limb 5, linear, |^ to |- in. long, 

 pilose inside with white hairs, induplicate in the bud ; stamens 5, 

 hypogynous, persistent, inserted at the very base of the corolla- 

 tube, y^g- in. long ; the filaments flattened, glabrous or nearly so, 

 about as long as the anthers, whitish ; the anthers linear, all 

 curved-converging above the stigma, and bearded at the apex, 

 otherwise glabrous or nearly so; ovary inferior; style simple, 

 rather thick, incurved ; stigma thick, shortly indusiate, bearded 

 with white hairs. 



HuiLLA. — In damp wooded meadows between IiopoUo and Morro 

 de Quilengnes, plentiful here and there ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1135. 



A form with the stem branched occurs, but rarely. 



3. CEPHALOSTIGMA A. DC; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 555. 

 1. C. Schimperi Hochst. in Plant. Schimp. Abyss, i. n. 69 



{U. i. 1840) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 2 (1851). 



Wahlenbergia Schimperi Hochst., I.e., iii. n. 1964(1844). LigJit- 

 footia arenaria Alph. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat., s6r. 5, vi. p. 329 

 (1866) ; Hemsl. in OKv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 476. 0. hirmtum 

 Hemsl., I.e., p. 472 ; non Edgw. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb ; stem erect, 8 in. or scarcely a foot high, 

 branched from the base ; branches elongated ; leaves rather rigid, 

 sessile, lanceolate ; flowers solitary, axillary, arranged in a paniculate 

 manner ; corolla 5-olef t, from milk.- white becoming purple ; the lobes 

 narrow, spreading during the flowering ; stigma 3-lobed. In sandy 

 places neglected after cultivation, also in plantations of maize, in 



