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fugacious. Leaf-sheaths long-ciliate. Short thicket-grown damp 
rather sandy places by the larger lake of Quilunda, near Prata. Sept. 
1857. No. 6619. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—A low herb with long creeping stoloniferous stem 
and numerous pale blue flowers, flowering almost the whole year on 
dry and damp sunny and shady slopes. A most noxious weed in fields, 
especially where Arachis is sown. Almost everywhere except in 
primitive woods. Damp shady places by the river Congo near Can- 
guerasange, Oct. 1854, and in fl. and fr. Zengas do Queta March 1856. 
No. 6609. 
MossamMEDES.—An annual or biennial herb, widely caspitose, with 
runners and very long stolons, flowers a rather deep blue. Called by 
the negroes Quindagala ; cooked with seeds of a Phaseolus, and eagerly 
devoured by them. Plentiful on the damp sandy rocks of the river 
Bero. In fi. Aug. 1859. No. 6580. 
Var. Werneana C. B. Clarke, l.c., p. 145; Durand & Schinz, /.c. 
Srerra LEONE.—Damp thicket by cataracts on Sugar-loaf mount- 
ains. Sept. 1853. Nos. 6625, 6625). 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—Sange No. 6606. Plentiful in damp reedy (Capim) 
places and on the banks of the river Quiapoze; beginning of June 
1855. Varzea d’Isidre Sept. 1855. No. 6608. 
2. C. scandens Welw. ex C. B. Clarke, ic. p. 146; Durand & 
Schinz, l.c., p. 428. 
Pungo ANDonco.—A herb 5 to 10 ft. long; flowers deep blue. 
Leaves and especially the sheaths glaucescent. Among reeds on the 
banks of the Cuanza, near N-Billa. March 15, 1857. No. 6642. 
3. C. subulata Roth., Nov. Plant. Sp. p. 23 (1821) ; C. B. Clarke, 
dc, p. 148; Durand & Schinz, l.c., p. 428. 
C. heterantha Welw. ex Clarke, J.c. 
Punco Anponco.—Sometimes annual erect filiform, slender, grow- 
ing in dense masses, sometimes ascending, branched from the base, 
biennial and perhaps perennial, with a tuberculately swollen rhizome. 
he external anterior perianth-leaves ovate-elliptic somewhat concave, 
the posterior navicular keeled, all white ; lateral petals semicircular- 
reniform clawed, the third similar but smaller, almost sessile, all a 
sulphur-chesnut colour and flat. Two stamens with horseshoe-shaped 
anthers, four with sterile clear yellow connective enlarged in different 
forms. Style filiform, red, stigma slightly capitellate, yellow. In some 
specimens the petals were blue (perhaps a different species). Sandy 
rocks of the presidium, near Catete, Luxillo, etc. In fl. and fr. Jan. 
1857. No. 6633. Poor meadows near Condo. March 1857. No. 66330. 
Huiiua.—A herb scarcely a foot long, with long fibrous rhizome, 
stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes and streaked with red, leaf-sheaths 
white to pale yellowish with broad purple bands, spathes pale yellowish, 
bent downwards, flowers small, yellow. Plentiful among crops of 
maize and Phaseolus, on the banks of the river Ema, etc. In fl. Feb. 
1860. No. 6588. An annual much-branched prostrate-ascending 
herb ; primary stems semi-rotund, branches and branchlets triquetrous, 
spathes numerous, deflexed, purplish with green-yellow stripes, flowers 
small, yellow. ‘loo plentiful among maize and almost all kinds of 
tropical crops ; springs up and flowers in March. Lopollo, 27 March 
1860. No. 6589. 
MossaMEDES.—(. heterantha Welw. ms. Annual, branched, glaucous- 
green, stem and branches procumbent-suberect, rooting at the nodes, 
