740 Lxxxvii. coNTOLVULACE^. [Jpomcea 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual prostrate herb ; corolla tubular- 

 campanulate, white, very fugacious. In sandy moist pastures on the 

 right bank of the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda, 7 Feb. 1857, in 

 company with Portulaca foliosa Ker (Welw. no. 1105) and an orchid 

 (cf. Welw. no. 688, Habenaria ?). No. 6170. 



30. I. palmata Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. p. 43 (1775); non 

 Kotscb. Exsicc. n. 177. 



Convolvulus cairicus L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 922 (1759). I. 

 eairica Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 1, pt. ii. 287 (1827); Hall. i.,l.c., 148. 



Prince's Island. — At the coast, without fl. orfr. Sept. 1 853. No. 6208. 



IcoLO E Bengo. — In the palm-groves of Santo Antonio by the river 

 Bengo ; fl. Dec. 1853. No. 6205. 



LiBONGO. — A herb, climbing widely and high, with its numerous 

 twining stems embracing chiefly herbaceous bushes of Malvaceae and 

 Sesban (cf. Abutilon intermedium Hochst., Welw. no. 4978 ; and Seslan 

 sphmrocarpus Welw., Coll. Carp. 388) ; flowers very prettily violet- 

 purple . In damp bushy places about lakes on the left bank of the 

 river Lifune, plentiful ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 6206. 



GoLTjNGO Alto. — A perennial herb, sometimes twining and climb- 

 ing, sometimes (in hot situations) prostrate, elongate-sarmentose, 

 quasi-cffispitose ; flowers very prettily violet-rosy. By the stems of 

 tall grasses and in sunny thickets, near Sange, not uncommon ; fl. and 

 fr. March 1855. No. 6207. 



MossAMEDES. — A herb, climbing far and widely, tw'ining, exceed- 

 ingly pleasing and highly ornamental with its very crowded deep- 

 violet-purple flowers. At rocks by the banks of the river Bero, very 

 plentiful ; fl. July and August 1859. No. 6117. 



The following should be compared with this species : — 

 GOL0NGO Alto. — Creeping on the ground, with 10 to 12 shoots, 

 7 to 9 in. long ; capsule 2-celled, the cells 2-seeded, the seeds hirsute 

 with chestnut-brown hairs. Before Rodrigo's house ; fr. April 1856. 

 Coll. Carp. 771 . A perennial herb, widely diffuse ; sarmentose branches 

 4 to 8 ft. long, not rooting ; flowers violet-purple, handsome ; fl. and fr. 

 May 1856. Coll. Carp. 772. 

 MossAMEDES. — Boca do Bio Giraul ; fr. July 1859. Coll. Carp. 775. 



31. I. digitata L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, ii. p. 924 (1759). 

 Convolvulus paniculatus~L. Sp. PI., edit. l,p. 156 (1753). I.pani- 



culata E. Br. Prodr. p. 486 (1810) ; Hall, f.. I.e., p. 149. Batatas 

 paniculata Choisy in M^m. Soc. Phys. Geneve vi. p. 436 (1834). 



Ambriz. — A beautiful, widely climbing, floribund plant, with very 

 pretty rosy-purple flowers. By thickets near the river Quizembo in 

 Sobato Quizembo ; fl. Nov. 1853. No. 6241. 



Barra do Bengo. — A tall-climbing herb, with rosy handsome flowers. 

 In the forest at the river Bengo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. No. 6242. 



PtTNGO Andongo. — A climbing, twining plant, almost woody at the 

 base ; stem angular ; leaves membranous but rather fleshy ; corolla 

 campanulate-funnel- shaped, violet purple. By the thickets of Mata de 

 Pungo, sporadic ; fl. middle of Dec. 1856. No. 6163. At Condo ; 

 fl. and fr. 1857. No. 6222. 



32. I. Arenieola Eendleife Britten in Journ. Bot. xxxii. p. 176. 

 Pungo Andongo.— A perennial herb, not tuberous ; stem decum- 

 bent, fleshy, purple ; flowers from whitish to violet-coloured, purple 



