86 XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). [Jacquemontia. 
dark green, glabrescent or more or Jess pilose (often ferruginously) on both 
surfaces, margin pilose, thin; veins subprominent beneath; petiole 
shorter than the blade. Peduncle generally long, often exceeding the 
leaves. Flowers many ina dichotomously forked cyme forming a 
globose head, about 1 in. in diam., bracteated by reduced leaves with 
narrowing entire base, the inner becoming smaller and more hairy 
ultimately resembling the sepals. Calyx 2} lin. long, shaggy with soft 
brown hairs ; sepals subequal, lanceolate, acute. Corolla blue, fugacious, 
twice as long as the calyx. Capsule globular, about 2 lin. in diam., 
bright brown, glabrous; valves 4, brittle. Seeds 4, bright brown, 
scabridulous.—Hallier f, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 95; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 725; Baker & Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 69. Jpomea 
capitata, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 365; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 467, 
Oliver in Trans. Linn. ‘Soc. xxix. 115; Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. 
Congo, 204. TI. guineensis,G. Don,1].c.269. J. macropoda, Bojer, Hort. 
Maur. 229. J. Convolvulus var. guineensis, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 
PL 90. Convolvulus pyenantha, Hochst. ex Choisy in DC Prodr. ix. 365. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Cape Palmas, Vogel, 38! Senegal, Roger! 
Perrottet! Gold Coast: Accra, Ansell! Dahomey, Burton! Togo, Kling, 176 ; 
Warnecke, 245! Northern Nigeria, Barter ! 
Wile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 212! Pfund, 17! 142! 487! Cienkowsky. 
Moru, Petherick! Jur, Schweinfurth, 2384! Madi, Speke & Grant! British East 
Africa, Thomas, 206! Wakefield! Whyte! Késsner, 34! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon, Biittner, 387! Soyauzx, 440! Lower Congo, 
Smith! lLeoango, Soyaur, 14 bis. Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 35! Lutete, Hens, 
A, 263! Dembo, Gilet; Kinchassa, Demeuse ; Bingila, Dupuis. Angola, Wel- 
witsch, 6215! 6216! 6217! 6218! Gossweiler, 276! 411! Monteiro! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer! Hildebrandt,991! German East Africa: 
Usambara; Holst, 2681! Portuguese East Africa: near Sena, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Valley, Scott! Lukoma, Lake Nyasa, Belling- 
ham! Rhodesia; between Bulawayo and Zambesi, Hyles, 129! 
Also in South Africa, and the Mascarene Islands. 
Var. pauciflora, N. E. Br.—Heads of flowers smaller and less dense, 3-10- 
flowered, 
Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., Lugard, 183! Urs. 
Lugard, 169 ! 
2. J. thomensis, Henriq. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 143. Stem slender, 
twining, branched, pilose with reflexed hairs. Leaves lanceolate, 
cordate or sagittate at the base, mucronate, pilose, 14-3 in. long.; 
petiole 4-1} in. long. Clusters of flowers hairy, axillary, subsessile ; 
peduncle 1-1} lin. long; bracts linear, rarely longer than the pedicels 
pedicels 4-1} lin. long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, equal, 3 lin. long: 
Corolla white, campanulate, as long as the calyx, sparsely villous 
and densely ciliate at the lobes; ovary densely villous; stigma 
orbicular, flattened. Capsule villous, equal to the calyx, 4-valved. 
Seeds dull brown, minutely punctulate. 
Upper Guinea. Island of St, Thomas, Moller. 
