726 Lxxxvii. coNTOLVuLACEiE. [Jaoquemontia 



grassy places near Quibolo ; fl. July 1856. No. 6216. An annual, 

 twining, simple, prostrate herb, with small bluish flowers. On hills 

 amidst plants of Punica Granatum L. and species of Pennisetum, but 

 only in a few spots ; fl. and fr. end of April 1856. No. 6218. 



2. J. ovalifolia Hall, f., I.e., p. 96. 



Ipomcea ovalifolia Ohoisy in M6m. Soo. Phys. Geneve, vi. p. 449 

 (1834); Benth. & Hook. Niger Fl. p. 466 (1849). /. oleracea 

 Welw. Apontam. p. 589, n. 74 (1859); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 231. 



LoANDA. — An annual or biennial herb ; stems numerous, branched 

 from the base ; branches elongated, ascending, somewhat ramulose ; 

 leaves rather fleshy, glaucescent-green, soft and almost greasy to the 

 touch ; flowers pale blue ; corolla-lobes 5, obtuse, mucronate ; anthers 

 ovoid, white ; style simple, or cleft from the middle with erect 

 branches and oblong wedge-shaped stigmas, or simple up to the apex 

 with a bilobed stigma and oblong-spathulate never globose lobes. At 

 the margins of pools and in other moist places and even in dry stations 

 behind Loanda ; fl. and fr. June and July 1858. In moist herbaceous 

 places at Museque do Senhor Eicardo, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1854. 

 At Eepresa do Manoel Pereira Van Hunnen ; fl. and fr. July 1854. 

 A luxuriant specimen 6 ft. long ; at Represa do Imbondeiro dos 

 Lobos ; fl. and fr. beginning of August 1858. The boiled or fried 

 plant, especially when eaten with fish, serves as an agreeable vegetable. 

 The natives call it " Bumba Ei^a." No. 6252. 



MossAMEDEs. — An edible herb, with rather fleshy leaves and white- 

 bluish flowers. In moist sandy places at the banks of the river Bero 

 (Rio das mortes) ; fl. and fr. July 1869. No. 6121. 



The pollen is without spines. 



6. CONVOLVULUS Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 ii. p. 874, partly ; Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi. p. 579 (1893). 



1. C. sagittatus Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. i. p. 35 (1794) ; Hall. 

 f., I.e., xviii. p. 103 (1893). 



Ambaca. — A herb, scarcely annual ; root many-headed ; branches 

 sarmentose, virgate, prostrate, spreading in a circle. Amid low bushes 

 and in the drier pastures between Engombe and Puri-Cacarambola, 

 rather rare ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 6204. 



Var. grandiflorus Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. p. 533. 



Subvar. subcordata Hall, f., I.e., p. 534. 



C. Steudneri Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. p. 350 (1892) ; Hall, f., l.c., 

 p. 104 (1893). 0. angolends Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 67. 

 Ipomoea huillensis Baker, I.e., p. 70. 



HniLLA.— At Ferrao da Sola ; fr. May 1860. No. 6131. 



The following No. probably belongs to this species ; the pollen 

 is smooth : — 



HuiLLA. — Flowers from whitish to slightly purple or violet- 

 coloured. In bushy pastures at Catumba ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 6116. 



7. SHUTEE.EIA Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve vi. p. 485 

 (1834); non Shuteria Wight & Ara. (1834). 



Scvniltim Rafin. H. Tellur. iv. p. 70 (1836). Kethosia Rafin., 



