Bonamia. | XC. CONVOLVULACEZ (BAKER AND RENDLE). 79 
areas not sharply defined. Stamens and styles included; filaments 
dilated and hairy below ; anthers oblong with cordate base. Disc 
inconspicuous or absent. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled, hairy at the apex 
(in African species); style (in African species) with two unequal 
branches bearing two globose stigmas. Capsule 2-celled, 4-seeded, 
opening by 4 valves. Seeds glabrous.—African species shrubby 
climbers with oblong to lanceolate short-stalked leaves, and dense 
usually many-flowered cymes (few-flowered in 2B. minor), 
- About 30 species, widely distributed in the tropics ; 3 in Tropical Africa. 
Stems clothed with brown hairs, 
Bracts large; flowers blue 7 : : : . 1. B. mossambicensis. 
Bracts small; flowers white. : : : . 2. B. cymosa. 
Stems glabrous . : : : : : : ; 3. B. minor. 
1. B. mossambicensis, //allier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 91. A 
climber with woody stems, clothed with brown hairs. Leaves sub- 
coriaceous, shortly petioled, elliptic, oblong, subobtuse, mucronate, 1—2 
in. long, 5-10 lin. broad, thinly pubescent’ above, densely coated with 
brown hairs beneath ; petiole 2—3 lin. long. Peduncles axillary, inany- 
flowered, about as long as the cymes; bracts large, elliptic to obovate, 
acute, 6 lin. long and 3 lin. broad, covered on back and margin with a 
rusty tomentum., Sepals thinly glumaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute, 
unequal, the outer 3 lin. long, glabrous except the apex. Corolla 
bright blue, campanulate-funnel-shaped, 9 lin. long, not distinctly 
lobed. Ovary hairy at the apex, 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; style unequally bifid 
above the middle; stigmas obovate, globose, granulate. Capsule and 
seeds unknown.—Hallier, f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 996; Dammer in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 328. Breweria buddleoides, Baker in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 69. Prevostea mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb. Bot. 244, t. 39. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo; Dar es Salem, Stuhlmann, 
8467; Kisserawe, Stuhlmann, 6178; and without precise locality, Stuhlmann, 105, 
6166 ; by the Rovuma River, Kirk! Portuguese East Africa: Rio de Sena 
Peters. 
2. B. cymosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 91. A woody 
climber, reaching 12 ft. long; stems slender, terete, densely clothed 
with short brown hairs. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, sub- 
coriaceous, shortly petioled, 1-3 in. long, obtuse with mucronulate 
apex, rounded at the base, green and: glabrous above with sunk nerves 
when dry, matted with brown hairs and with prominent nerves beneath. 
Cymes dense, many-flowered, usually secund on short peduncles or 
congested into a terminal panicle; bracts minute ; pedicels short, 
silky. Sepals oblong-lanceolate to ovate, shortly acuminate, 4 lin. 
long, the inner slightly shorter, glumaceous, ferruginously silky on 
the back. Corolla white, twice as long as the calyx, obscurely lobed, 
ferruginously silky except on the commissural areas. Style bifid only 
above the middle. Capsule globose, rigid, glabrous, as long as the 
calyx. Seeds black, glabrous—Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 
996. Breweria secunda, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 470. Convolwulus 
