Ipomoea] Lxxxvii. convolvulace*. 739 



and deep violet-purple almost blood-red flowers. At the Delamboa. 

 No. 6148. Leaves uniform. At the river Delamboa, Aug. 1866. Coll. 

 Carp. 773. 



26. I. Protea Rendle & Britten in Journ. Bot. xxxii.p. 176 (1894). 

 PuNGO Andongo.— At Quitage ; fl. [10 March 1867]. No. 6198. 



In Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 109 (1893) Dr. H. Hallier suggested the 

 reference of this plant to Convolvulus canariensis L. ; but he had not 

 seen any flower of it. It is allied to /. asarifolia Roem. & Sohult. 



27. I. biloba Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. 44 (1775). 

 Convolvulus Pes caprm L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 159 (1753). /. Pes 



Caprm Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 109 (1821) ; Hall, f., I.e., p. 145. 



LoANDA. — A luxuriant plant ; the sarmentose branches creeping, 

 more than 50 ft. long, often 66 ft., rarely rooting here and there, and 

 giving off flowering fascicles of leaves ; leaves fleshy, rigid, glossy, 

 deep green ; flowers purplish. In sandy maritime places, plentiful ; 

 at Praia de Zam^ba grande ; fl. and fr. March and April 1858. No. 6240. 

 Leaves fleshy, rather shining, evergreen ; flowers whitish and purple 

 variegated, handsome, occurring nearly the whole year ; in gravelly 

 places on the Loanda island near S. Paulo de Loanda ; seeds, Feb. 

 1854. Stolons about 30 to 50 ft. long ; in e;ravelly places at the sea- 

 coast, plentiful and handsome ; fr. May 1854. Coll. Caep. 109. At 

 Praia de Zamba grande ; fr. May 1858 ; also at Praia de S. Thiago ; 

 fr. Sept. 1858. Coll. Caep. 763. 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers purple. In gravelly places by the ocean 

 near Mossamedes, not plentiful ; fl. July 1859. No. 6125. On the 

 sandy sea-shore near the city ; fr. July 1859. Coll. Caep. 776. 



28. I. Welwitschii Vatke ex Hall, f., I.e., p. 146. 



Huilla. — Corolla white-rosy. In bushy pastures between Nene 

 and Mumpulla and near Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 6120. 



/8. latifolia Britten, Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 85 (March 1894). 

 /. aspericaulis Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 70 (Feb.). 

 Huilla.— In fl. and fr. No. 61206- 



29. 1.dissectaWilld. Phytogr. p.5,t. 2(1794); nonPursh(1814). 



Convolvulus copticus L. Mant. PI. alt. p. 559 (1771). /. coptica 

 Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. p. 110 (1821) ; Hall, f., I.e., p. 147. /. multi- 

 secta Welw. Apontam. p. 589. n. 75 (1859), 



Loanda.— A herb, doubtfully annual or in copiously rainy seasons 

 lasting for several years ; stems numerous, prostrate, sarmentose, 

 spreading in a circle, 2 to 5 ft. long ; flowers white ; on herbaceous 

 hills in moist spots, above Loanda ; at Alto das Cruzes ; fl. and fr. 

 March 1854. An apparently perennial herb ; root rather thick ; 

 stems many, branched, whip-like, 2 to 4 ft. long, prostrate in a 

 stellate manner ; branchlets ascending ; leaves multisect, with linear 

 segments ; peduncles axillary, a little longer than the petiole, bearing 

 about 2 or mostly only 1 flower, twice bibracteolate ; corolla cam- 

 panulate, milk-white, ^ in. long, twice as long as the muriculate calyx ; 

 in hilly herbaceous places in depressions quite dry in winter but flooded 

 in summer ; fl. and fr. May and June 1858. No. 6253. A low, 

 perennial herb ; branches much divided, prostrate in all directions ; 

 leaves much cut ; flowers white, gamopetalous. At Alto das Cruzes ; 

 fr. July 1858. Coll. Carp. 765. 



