734 Lxxxvii. coNvoLVULACE^. [Ipomoea 



size of the flower, exceeding the stigma ; the latter bicapitellate, 

 each head consisting of white rather long cylindrical densely clustered 

 papillae ; in moist depressions near Penedo, Forte Conceigao, fl. end of 

 April 1858. Corolla violet-purple, tubular-rotate ; at Bemposta, fr. 

 18 May 1859. No. 6237. 



Baera do Bengo. — A herb ; root thick ; stems numerous, prostrate ; 

 flowers sordidly violet-purple. In moist places between Quicuxe and 

 Cacuaco ; only one specimen ; fl. Sept. 1858. No. 6236- 



MossAMEDES. — An annual, prostrate, herbaceous-green herb, with 

 small purplish flowers. In sandy places at the banks of the river Bero ; 

 fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 6133. 



10. I. Unosepala Hall, f., I.e., p. 130 (22 Dec. 1893). 



/. xiphosepala Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 69 (Feb. 1894). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A persisting herb, 4 to 8 in. high ; root thick, 

 fusiform, tuberous ; stems numerous, caespitose, rather erect ; corolla 

 pale rosy outside, deep red inside, funuel-shaped-campanulate ; two of 

 the stamens higher than the rest ; stigma bicapitellate, whitish. In 

 the rocky parts of the gigantic rocks near Oatete ; fl. and fr. beginning 

 of Jan. and in Feb. 1857. No. 6191. 



11. I. chloroneura Hall, f., I.e., p. 132. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual erect herb ; branches from the base 

 of the stem divaricate, ascending ; flowers (not fully expanded) 

 whitish. In thickets, on volcanic sandstone conglomerate, near Lombe, 

 at the river Cuanza ; fl. March 1857. No. 6181. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb, much branched from the base ; stem 

 and branches prostrate, whip-like ; flowers funnel-shaped, whitish or 

 very pale yellowish. In planted grounds and places neglected after 

 cultivation, about LopoUo ; without fl. in Jan. and with fl. and fr. 

 beginning of May 1860. No. 6132. 



12. I. amoena Ohoisy in DC. Prodr. ix. p. 365 (1845) ; Hall, f.. 

 I.e., p. 133 ; non Blume. 



Ambeiz. — At Quizembo ; fl.-bud, Nov. 1853. No. 6197. 



Cazengo. — In rocky thinly bushy places on the left bank of the 

 river Luinha, in the ascent to Mount Muxaulo ; not yet in fl. Dec. 

 1854. Apparently this species. No. 6198. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An annual twining herb, remarkable amongst its 

 companions by reason of the peculiar silvery-metallic lustre of its 

 foliage, one of the handsomest plants of the Order and an ornament 

 to the reed-beds where it grows ; calyx 5-parted, densely beset outside 

 with long hairs ; the sepals unequal, the outer one larger than the 

 rest ; corolla funnel-shaped, milk-white, the interior of che tube and 

 throat violet-blood-red ; the lobes of the limb 5, rather obtuse, shortly 

 and broadly ovate, peniciUate-pilose at the apex ; stamens 5, inserted 

 at the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers large, cordate-ovoid, attached 

 at the sinuses to the filaments, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent ; ovary 

 sessile, ovoid-conical, ending in the filiform style which falls a little 

 short of the stamens, 2-celled, the cells bi-ovulate ; stigma capitate, 

 large, obsoletely bilobed, usually bigibbous-globose. By thickets and in 

 reed-beds in Sobato Mussengue, Bango, etc., not uncommon ; Bango, 

 fl. 29 April 1854 ; on a rather dry sandy-clay soil near Oanaulo, by the 

 Ambaca road ; fl. June 1856. No. 6199. 



PuNGO Andongo. — No notes. In fl. No. 6200. 



