Ipomcea] lxxxvii. convolvulace^. 737 



Delamboa at the foot of Munguella grande ; with fl. beginning of 

 Aug. 1856. Native name " Quidingo Cambonge." The leaves are 

 cooked with fungi and greedily eaten by the negroes as a kind of 

 spinach. No. 6173. 



MossAMEDES. — Quinquefoliolate. Everywhere cultivated, very 

 plentiful. At Cavalheiros ; fl. July 1859. Colonial name " Card.," 

 a name imported from Brazil. No, 6135. Leaves simple, angled, the 

 angles abruptly acute. Excursion to Costa ; fl. July 1859. Cultivated 

 by the Portuguese colonists, but less frequently than the plant with 

 quinquefld-palmate leaves; fl. July; fr. Aug. 1859. No. 6131. 



20. I. ochraeea G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 270 (1837); Hall, f.. 

 I.e., p. 140. Convolvulus ochraceus Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1060 (1827). 

 I. ophthalmantha Hall, f., I.e., p. 141, partly. 



Ambkiz. — At Mubanbe on the lake near Quibanga ; fl. No. 6174. 



LOANDA. — -A prostrate herb ; root woody, perennial ; stems 

 numerous ; branches elongated, procumbent, twining at the apex ; 

 leaves rather glossy, membranous, deep green ; flowers bright, of an 

 orange-sulphur colour with the tube brilliantly violet-purple. In dry 

 places cultivated as well as in uncultivated ones, very plentiful 

 throughout, the district, flowering nearly the whole year ; between 

 Quicuxe and Alto das Cruzes, April 1854 and Aug. 1858 ; in sandy 

 plains from Loanda towards Quicuxe, Teba, Imbondeiro dos Lobos, 

 etc., at Quicuxe, 7 Feb. 1859. No. 6245. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Stem velvety at the base with long white very 

 soft hairs, readily twining ; flowers of a deep sulphur colour, expanded 

 from 9 in the forenoon to 3 in the afternoon, closed at other times. 

 Among reeds and tall grasses throughout the district, plentiful ; at 

 Menha lula ; fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 6176. By the Ambaca road ; 

 fl. and fr. July and Aug. 1856. No. 6175. 



21. I. humifera Rendle in Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 177 (1894). 



/. Barteri, var. cordifolia Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. p. 543 

 (4 July 1898). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A herb, apparently perennial, spreading along 

 the ground, not climbing ; leaves membranous, rather rigid ; flowers 

 purple, tubular, the tube comparatively long. In the wooded thickets 

 of Mata de Pungo ; fl. middle of April 1857. No. 6177. In small 

 forests above Quibinda ; in fl.-bud. No. 6178. 



The following No. perhaps belongs here: — 



Pungo Andongo. — A delicate herb, growing in the shady forest 

 among low herbs ; , stem decumbent-twining ; flowers very bright 

 white-purpurascent. In rather dense forest near MutoUo near Pedras 

 de G-uinga ; fl. March 1857. Only one poor specimen. No. 6179. 



22. I. hellebarda Schweinf. ms. in Herb. Gal^ab. (1865) n. 2176, 

 & ex Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 142, 



/. sagittata Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 467 (1849) ; Hall, f.. 

 I.e. ; non Poir. (1789). 



Var. sarcopoda (Welw. ms. in herb). 



A perennial herb ; rhizome thick, fleshy-woody ; stems several, 

 prostrate, slender, cylindrical ; branches virgate-twining ; leaves 

 subglauoous beneath; peduncles fleshy-thickened from the base 

 upwards, hard, three times thicker than the contiguous stem, 



