Lightfootia] lxxiii. campanulacE/E. 631 



6. L. gracilis Alph. DC, I.e., p. 330 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 476. 

 HuiLiA. — A little annual herb, 3 to 4 in. high ; stem corymbosely 



branched towards the apex ; flowers clear blue. In swampy somewhat 

 peaty pastures near Humpata ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 1151. 



7. L. exilis Alph. DC, I.e., p. 330 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 476. 

 HuiLiiA. — A tender, little, annual herb, 3 to 5 in. high ; stem 



patently branched ; flowers from milky to bluish ; corolla-limb patent 

 at the time of the flower, soon flaccid-collapsing. In moist pastures- 

 on the Humpata plateau, in sandy-earthy places with short herbage^ 

 very plentiful ; fl. April 1860. No. 1152. 



8. L. debilis Alph. DC, I.e., p. 331 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 476. 



HuiLLA. — Habit almost of some species of Galium ; flowers milk- 

 white. In moist pastures among low herbs and scattered bushes at- 

 the outskirt of the forest near Catumba ; fl. beginning of April 1860^ 

 No. 1154. 



9. L. Welwitschii Alph. DC, I.e., p. 332 ; Hemsl., I.e., p. 477. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — An annual herblet, with the habit of a large^ 



specimen of Asterolinon stellatum HofEmansegg & Link ; primary stem 

 erect ; branches elongated, ascending, weak ; leaves cartilaginous on 

 the margin ; calyx exceeding the corolla, stellate-patent at the time of 

 the flower as are also the corolla-lobes ; corolla livid-yellowish ; style 

 clavate above, undivided or scarcely or obsoletely bilobed at the apex,, 

 clear blue, not bearded ; capsule compressed-conical. In a damp 

 wooded meadow between Caghuy and Sansamanda at the river Cuanza, 

 plentiful but only in one spot, in company with Isoetes ceqmnoctialis- 

 Welw. herb. n. 50 and species of Hypoxis and Fuirena ; fl. and fr. 

 2 May 1857. No. 1149. In a moist rocky-sandy place near Catete in 

 the prsesidium, very sparingly ; only two specimens seen, without 

 either fl. or fr. April 1867. Apparently a form of this species. No. 1148. 



5. CERVICINA Delile, Fl. Egypte, p. 150 (1812), t. 5, fig. 2, 

 & Illustr. p. 50. 



Wahlenbergia Schrad. Oat. Hort. Getting. (1814) ; Benth. & 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 555. Campanula § Gampanopsis R. Br. 

 Prodr. p. 561 (1810). 



1. C. huillana. 



Wahlenbergia huillana Alph. DC in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5,. 

 vi. p. 333 (1866) ; Hemsl. in Oliv. El. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 479 ; incl. 

 var. pusilla Alph. DC, I.e. Gampanopsis huillana O. Kuntze,. 

 Eev. Gen. PI. (ii.), p. 379 (1891). 



HuiLLA. — An annual or occasionally biennial herb, with the habit 

 of an Alsine, lactescent ; stems several, ascending, much branched ; 

 flowers trimerous or tetramerous, from whitish to very pale bluish, 

 the tetramerous ones shaped almost like those of an Asperula or 

 Galium ; calyx-lobes unequal ; anthers distinct. In marshy wooded 

 places from LopoUo towards the lake of IvantUa, but met with only 

 in a few spots ; fl. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 1161. Flowers 

 whitish. In the poor elevated pastures of Empalanca, with short 

 herbage, flooded in the rainy season, that is, in summer, abundant ■;. 

 fl. end of Feb. 1860. This contains the var. pusilla Alph. DO., which 

 was a young plant of the species, and according to Welwitsch is not 

 really a variety. No. 1160. 



