80 XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). | Bonamia. 
eymosus, Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 303. C. Senegambie, Spreng. 
Syst. i. 610. Zpomea Afzelii, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 373. /. secunda, 
Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 282; Choisy l.c. 390. Z. Senegambie, Choisy 1.c. 
B51. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram! Sierra Leone, Don! Smeathman! 
Afzelius! Barter! Hart! Morson! Stormont! Scott-Elliot, 3930! 4170! 5599! 
5835! 5836! Liberia: near Monrovia, Whyte’ Ashanti: Assin Yan Kumassi, 
Cummins, 165! Lagos, Barter, 2227! 20167! Millen, 34! Cameroons: Barombi, 
Preuss, 268 ; Batanga, Dinklage, 684. 
3. B. minor, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 91. Stem shrubby, 
climbing, glabrous, finely striate. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate- 
obovate, above an inch long, 6 lin. broad, subacute, mucronate, narrowed 
gradually to the base, glabrous above and becoming so beneath, fascicled 
in the leaf axils at the lower nodes; petiole about 2 lin. long. Cymes 
1-3-flowered, shortly peduncled, subspicate at the end of the branchlets ; 
peduncle and pedicels about 2 lin. long. Calyx ovoid, silky ; sepals 
equal, elliptic, coriaceous. Corolla funnel-shaped, subentire, silky 
outside on the midpetaline areas, about 7 lin. long.—Hallier f. in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 999. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga: Lukafu, Verdeck, 592. Lo- 
mami River, Pogge, 1214. Kazembe River, a tributary of the Lualaba River, 
Descamps. 
10. NEUROPELTIS, Wall. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 878. 
Sepals subequal, much imbricated. Corolla deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 
induplicate-valvate; stamens inserted in the corolla-tube ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers oblong. Disc verysmall. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 
4-ovuled ; styles distinct from the base, simple; stigmas peltate, 
flattened. Capsule coriaceous, 1-seeded. Seed globose, glabrous ; 
embryo plicate——Wide-climbing shrubs, with woody stems. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, entire, petioled. Flowers small, white, forming 
a panicle with racemose branches; bracts very accrescent, in a late 
stage scariose, bearing fruit in the centre. 
Species 4, two in Tropical Asia. 
Branches and leaves not ferruginously hairy : oo 
Branches and undersurface of leaves densely ferru- 
ginousiy hairy . - . : - ° . 2. IN, velutina. 
. NV. acuminata. 
1. N, acuminata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 469. A shrubby 
climber, 30—40 ft. high, with stout woody stems bearing soft adpressed 
hairs in the younger parts. Leaves elliptic tending to obovate, 
24—4 in. long, cuspidate, rounded to subdeltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous to glabrescent; petiole 1 in. long. Flowers in cylindrical 
terminal and axillary racemes 5-6 in. long on the shorter branches; 
rhachis with short ferruginous hairs. Pedicels short, becoming 6-9 lin. 
long in the fruiting stage, and adnate to a scarious orbicular bract 
14-2 in. long and broad. Sepals orbicular, with ciliate margins, 1 lin. 
