Commelina] XIV. COMMELINACES, 77 
GoLuNnco ALTo.—Nov. Alsonorthof Ambriz. Material insufficient 
for certain determination. No. 6612. 
7. C. angolensis C. B. Clarke, J.c., p. 167; Durand & Schinz, /.c. 
Huritira.—A perennial herb, with several oblique purplish stems, 
branching at the apex, leaves herbaceous-green ; flowers small, yellow. 
Sporadic in sandy herb-grown places near Lopollo, behind the fortress. 
In fl. Dec. 1859. Monino; Jan. 1860. No. 6583. Decumbent. 
Flowers yellow, On the marshy margins of woods. Morro de Lopollo. 
April 1860. No. 6593. 
The following which bears no fruit may belong to this species, 
Pungo Anponco.—Roots fleshy-fibrous, shoots spread stellately on 
the ground, branches elongated, branched again, prostrate. Leaves 
vigid, subglaucous. Flowers deep sulphur-coloured. Wooded thickets 
in ferruginous mud, Sobato Cabanga. In fl. middle of Jan. 1857. 
No. 6626. 
8. C. Forskalaei Vahl Enum. PI. ii. p. 172 (1806); C. B. 
Clarke, J.c., p. 168 ; Durand & Schinz, d.c., p. 425. 
Punco ANDoNGO.—A succulent decumbent herb, soon ascending, 
climbing among the firmer grasses. Flowers dark blue, rather large, 
‘spreading. Damp meadows on the river Cuanza near N-billa, March 
1857. No. 6634. 
9. C. Kotschyi Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. p. 207 
(1867); C. B. Clarke, lc, p. 173; Durand & Schinz, lc., p. 426, 
BaRRA DO Benco.—A glaucous-green herb, with ascending green 
stems, leaf-sheaths livid purple ; flowers deep dark blue. Thickets 
very dry in winter, flooded in summer, between Teba and Cacuaco. 
May 1858. No. 6624. 
Loanpa.—An annual herb with purple prostrate-ascending stalks 
and sky-blue flowers. Short thicket-grown sunny stony places with 
a species of Aloe, etc., near Quicuxe, April 1854. No. 6614. Dense 
thickets of Alto das Cruzes towards Museque de Luiz Gomes, May 
and July 1854. No. 6620. 
10. C. latifolia Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 340 (1851); C. B. 
‘Clarke, l.c.; Durand & Schinz, Le. 
AmsBriz.—Shrubby damp places near the river Quizembo, Nov. to 
Dec. 1853. No. 6615 (in part). ; 
Loanpa.—-An annual, more rarely biennial herb, shoots 3 to 6 ft., 
oblique, weak, half-climbing among shrubs, green-purplish, angled, 
sheaths glandular-hairy, subviscous. Leaves most variable, often poly- 
morphic in the same specimen, narrowly lanceolate and elliptical. 
Flowers sky-blue. Plentiful in thickets of Capparidee about Alto 
das Cruzes. In fr. Feb. 1858. No. 6613. Annual, at first erect and 
flowering when scarcely a foot high, soon branched, branches spreading, 
reaching 3 to 7 ft. in length and half-climbing among shrubs. Flowers 
dark blue, rather small, fugacious. Very plentiful in damp places with 
low undergrowth and by the sides of streams near Quicuxe. Flowering 
from Nov. to end of May 1858. Reared from seed from Libongo taken 
from a pigeon’scrop. Flowered in Welwitsch’s garden at Loanda Novy. 
1858. No. 6615 (in part). Plentiful in thickets near the sea at Praia 
de Zamba grande, near Loanda. End of June and beginning of July 
1854. No. 6616. Annual, 1} to 3 ft., stem branched from the base, 
branches suberect. Flowers sky-blue. Thickets on poor sandy soil 
near Maianga de Povo, May 1854. No. 6618. 
