<yephcdostigma\ Lxxiii. campanulace-e. 629 



•company with species of Commelina, in the Monin ooountry ; fl. and 

 fr. 1 May 1860. No. 1155. Leaves broadly lanceolate vaguely 

 undulate, entire ; flowers pentamerous, very fugacious ; corolla-lobes 

 much narrowed from a rather broad base ; style filiform, exserted ; 

 stigmatic lobes rather thick, subspathulate, spreading ; seeds cylindrical- 

 ellipsoidal, bright dusky, quite glabrous, shining. In nearly dry sandy 

 thickets and among crops of mays, near Lopollo ; fl. and f r. 8 May 

 1860. No. 11556. 



Annual. Fr. with ripe seeds, March and April 1860. Cf. Coll. 

 Carp. 692 (partly). 



2. C. Candolleanum. 



IdghtfootiapanicidataA. DC, I.e., 331; Hemsl., I.e., 476 ; non Send. 



HuiLLA. — A very slender, annual herb, scarcely a foot high ; stems 

 several, ascending ; flowers pale blue or whitish. In drying-up swampy 

 places throughout the district ; fl. and fr. Nov. and Dec. 1859 ; also in 

 ■damp meadows along the banks of the Ferrao river, in company with 

 orchids (probably Satyrium paludosum Reichenb. f. ; Welw. herb. n. 

 727) ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1163. 



The stigmatic lobes are short and broad at the apex of the filiform 

 style. This is not the same as C paniculatum Alph. DC. nor as the 

 plant so named by Wallich. 



4. LIGHTFOOTIA L'H^rit. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 555. 



1. L. tenuifolia Alph. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, vi. p. 327 

 (1866) ; Hemsl. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 475. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers nearly milky-white with bluish tint. In wooded 

 pastures and on bushy slopes near the lake of Ivantala ; fl. and fr. 

 Feb. and beginning of April 1860. No. 1157. Perennial ; flowers 

 milky-blue. In bushy wooded parts of the Monino country, and also 

 in shady forests ; fl. and fr. beginning of Feb. 1860. No. 1159. 



2. L. marginata Alph. DC, I.e., p. 326; Hemsl., I.e., p. 474. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers pale blue. In sandy pastures with short herb- 

 age, near Lopollo, Nov. 1859 ; also in hilly places among low bushes 

 from Humpata as far as the lake Ivant&la, and along the road leading 

 to Quilengues, abundant ; fl. and fr. Feb. and April 1860. No. 1156. 

 Corolla whitish-blue. In wooded meadows near Eme, Feb. 1860 ; also 

 in herbaceous bushy places at the outskirts 'of forests between 

 Catumba and Ohai. A shaggy form of the species. No. 11566 

 Koot vertical, apparently biennial. In rocky wooded places from 

 Catumba towards Ohai ; a few specimens ; fl. and fr. April 1860. 

 No. 1158. 



3. L. napiformis Alph. DC, I.e., p. 328; Hemsl., I.e., p. 475. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, with a woody 



rootstock, Buberect or ascending ; stem virgately branched, beset 

 almost on all sides with rather rigid hairs ; calyx herbaceous-green, 

 the tube adnate to the base of the ovary, the limb 5 -cleft ; corolla 

 inserted on the top of the calyx-tube, of a pale violet colour, deeply 

 6-partite, the segments rigidly pilose ; stamens 5 ; filaments free, 

 gradually dilated from the base, sub-trilobate, the lateral lobes very 

 short and ciliate, the intermediate lobe larger elongated and at the 

 apex bearing the anther ; ovary covered up to the middle by the 

 adnate calyx, 3-celled ; ovules numerous, inserted near the bottom 

 of the cells on the central placentas ; styles exserted, filiform from 



