Quamoclit] lxxxvii. coNvoLvcLACEyE. 743 



LoANDA. — A twining, annual herb, with funnel-shaped purple flowers. 

 Probably introduced ; fl. and fr. 20 May 1858. No. 6234. 



Island of St. Thomas.— At the bushy margins of fields ; fl.-bud 

 Dec. 1860. Perhaps this species. No. 6213. 



2. ft. vulgaris Ohoisyin M6m. Soc. Phys. Geneve, vi. p. 434(1834). 



Ipomcea Quamoclit L. Sp. PI., edit. 1, p. 159 (1753). Q. pinnata 

 Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 224 (1837) ; Hall, f., I.e. Ipomcea sp., 

 Welw. Apontam. p. 551 sub n. 98. 



Prince's Island. — By thickets near Baixa de Santo Antonio, wild 

 but not indigenous ; fl. Sept. 1853. No. 6209. 



This handsome species is cultivated in some Loanda gardens. 



14. STICTOCARDIA Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 159 (22 

 Dec. 1893) ; Peter in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3a, p. 376 (1897). 



Argyreia Benth. &, Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 869, partly. 



1. S. tiliaefolia Hall, f., I.e. 



Convolvulus tilicefolius Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. M6th. iii. p. 544 

 (1789). Eivea tilicefolia Choisy in Mem. Soc. 'Phys. Genfev. vi. p. 407 

 (1834); J.. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. p. 234 (1852). 



Cape de VerdeIs lands. — Petals rosy violet in colour, very fugacious. 

 In bushy places on Monte Verde, on the island of St. Vincent, at an 

 elevation of 800 to 1000 ft. ; fl. end of Aug. 185.8. No. 6213. 



15. CUSCUTA Tournef., L. ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 881. 



1. C. planiflora Tenore, Fl. Nap. iii. p. 250 (1824-9) ; Engelm. 

 in Trans. Acad. Sc. St. Louis, i. p. 464 (1859). 



Cuscuta (sp.), Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. p. 185 (1861). 



Var. (?) mossamedensis (Welw. ms. in herb.). 



A slender, twining, leafless, glabrous or minutely glandular- 

 puberulous herb; stems filiform, smooth, purple-bloodred or even 

 orange-coloured at the nodes, very intricately twisted, flexible, 

 rather tenacious, floribund ; flowers globose-urceolate, closely 

 clustered, about -^ to ^ in. in diameter, sessile or subsessile ; the 

 clusters globose, \ to ^ in. in diameter ; calyx green-reddish, 

 4-lobed ; the segments broadly ovate, obtuse or apiculate ; corolla 

 white, thinly scarious-membranous, scarcely as long as the calyx, 

 4-cleft ; the lobes triangular, acute, rather spreading ; stamens 4, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube near the top, scarcely included ; anthers 

 yellow, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary obovoid-globose, 

 turgid, 2-celled, 4-ovulate; style bipartite; stigmas linear, about 

 as long as the ovary ; capsule circumsciss at the base, imperfectly 

 2-celled; seeds usually 4, ttV in. long, obovoid, chestnut-brown or 

 yellowish dusky, erect. 



MosSAMEDES. — Parasitic on Merremia multisecta Hallier f. (Welw. 

 herb. no. 6112), between Cazimba and Mossamedes by the road to Cabo 

 Negro, in gravelly sub-maritime stations flooded in the rainy season, 

 sometimes more than a mile from the ocean, plentiful but seen nowhere 

 else ; fl. and fr. 4 Sept. 1859. No. 6141 and Coll. Carp. 112. 



2. C. blepharolepis Welw. ms. in herb. 



A herb, fleshy throughout, brittle, of a deep orange or saffron 

 colour ; stems cylindrical, smooth ; flowers sessile or subsessile, 



