Jacquemontia,| XC. CONVOLVULACES (BAKER AND RENDLE). 87 
Distinguished from Z. eapitata by the shorter heads of flowers, and the form 
and size of the bracts. It may perhaps be the Jpomea No.9 of Hooker’s Niger 
Fl, 467. 
3. J. ovalifolia, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 96. Annual or 
biennial. Stem branched from the base; branches slender, elongated, 
ascending, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, 
entire, obtuse, narrowed to the base, #-1$ in. long, glabrous, “ rather 
fleshy and somewhat glaucous green, soft and almost greasy to the 
touch” (Welwitsch); petiole 4-14 in. long. Peduncle short, slender, 
few-flowered, under 1 in. long; lower bracts like the leaves but 
small and deciduous, the upper minute; pedicels slender, shorter than 
the flower. Calyx glabrous, about 2 lin. long; sepals herbaceous, 
the two outer obovate-elliptic, reaching nearly 3 lin. long, blunt to 
shortly acute, the inner smaller, ovate, shortly acute to acute. Corolla 
blue, twice as long as the calyx, glabrous. Capsule globose, reddish- 
brown, glabrous, 24 lin. in diam. Seeds scabridulous, dull brown.— 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 726. Ipomaa ovalifolia, Choisy 
in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, vi. 449, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 357 ; Benth. 
in Hook. Niger Fl. 466, JZ. oleracea, Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 589 
a 74. Convolvulus coeruleus, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 
| See RA 
Upper Guinea. (Guinea, Thonning! Gold Coast: Accra, Vogel! Don! 
Brown, 374! and without precise locality, Krause! Isert! Cape Coast Castle, 
Brass! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 254! 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near Web Karanle River, Riva, 1004. British 
East Africa: Lake Dami, Gregory ! : 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 6252! Gossweiler, 165! 
Mossainedes, Welwitsch, 6121! Dammaraland, Hopfner, 21. 
4. J. paniculata, Hallier f. in. Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 95. Annual. 
Stems slender, wide-climbing, pubescent, as are also the petioles 
and peduncles. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, 14-2 in. long, 
membranous, upper surface glabrescent, lower surface sparsely pubes- 
cent, mainly on the thinly prominent nerves ; petiole slender, about half 
as long as the blade. Flowers several to many in a dense cyme ; 
peduncle slender, stouter and longer than the petiole, 1}-2 in. 
long; pedicels barely 3 lin. long; bracts minute, deciduous. Sepals 
subequal-ovate, acute to acuminate, pubescent, 24 lin. long. Corolla 
pinkish-white, twice the length of the calyx. Capsule globose, 
glabrous, 24 lin. in diam., 2-celled; valves 4, brittle. Seeds 4, scabri- 
dulous.—J. wmbellata, Bojer Hort. Maurit. 229. Convolvulus parvi- 
Jjlorus, Vahl, Symb. iii. 29; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 413; Vatke in 
Linnea, xliii. 522. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ribe and Nyika country, Wakefield! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usaramo; Bagamoyo, Hildebrandt, 
1267 ! 
Also in the Mascarene Isles, Tropical Asia, and North Australia. 
