96 XC, CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). [Convolvulus. 
younger parts, glabrous or sparsely hirsutulous. Leaves hastate- 
sagittate, exceeding 14 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad in the middle, 23-5 lin. 
at the base; median lobe long, linear, entire, obtuse ; basal lobes short, 
falcately decurved, obtruncate; petiole 14-24 lin. long. Peduncle 
1 in, to 1} in. long, thin, rigid, bearing several (rarely only one) small, 
short-stalked, densely crowded, somewhat nodding flowers, Sepals 
small, ovate-lanceolate, acute, apex herbaceous from a paler subcoria- 
ceous base, green, crisped, recurved, the outer a little longer, 24 lin. 
long, sparsely silky on the back especially at the apex. Corolla 4 lin. 
long, white, with red-brown stripes, distinctly lobed.—C. hastatus, 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 407, partly, not of Thunb. 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland, Pechuel-Ldésche, Hépfuer, 94. 
Also in South Africa. 
18. C. sagittatus, var. abyssinica, Hallier f. (as subvar.) in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. vi. 533. A somewhat more robust plant than the species, 
more or less glaucous green when dry. Stems long slender, prostrate, 
more or less grey or brownish, sometimes silky pubescent. Leaves 1} 
to 2} in. long, varying considerably in breadth, but larger and generally 
broader than in the species, rarely reaching 6 lin. broad, basal lobes 
recurved, often toothed or multifid, pubescent like the stem. Flowers 
1-2, rarely more, on slender more or less elongated peduncles. Bracts 
narrow linear ; pedicels about as long as or longer than the calyx, some- 
times shorter. Sepals 3-4 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse and apicu- 
late or cuspidate, to subacute, bearing on the back the characteristic 
pubescence. Corolla white or pink, 4-5 lin. long. Capsule globose, 
glabrous, about 3 lin. in diam. Seeds 4, brown, glabrous.—Rendle in 
Journ. Bot. 1901, 61 C. penicillatus, Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 74; 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 103. C. Aschersoni, Engl. Hochge- 
birgsflor. Trop. Afr. 349. C. sagittatus, var. macroglottis, Baker eX 
Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 39. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: near Saganeiti, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1739! 
near Acrour, 6500 ft., Schweinfurth § Riva, 1061! Bogos, Hildebrandt, 498! 
Habab, 6000 ft., Hildebrandt, 497, 499; Abyssinia: Misshall, 7000 ft., Schimper, 
660! Somak Efat, Roth, 424! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1130. 
Somaliland: Habrawal, Smith! British East Africa: Leikipia, Gregory ! wear 
Nyanza, Scott-Elliot, 7145 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambaca, Welwitsch, 6204! Huilla, Welwitsch, 
6116! 
Mozamb Dist. German East Africa: Lower plateau, north of Lake Nyass4, 
Thomson! British Central Africa: Rhodesia ; Salisbury, Rand, 510! Mrs. Evelyn 
Cecil, 74! Ngamiland; near Kwebe, Lugard, 77! 
Var. villosa, Hallier f. (as subvar.) in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 533. Shoots up to 
8 in. long, densely leaved, and (especially in the younger part) densely and softly 
fulvous-villous. Leaves narrowly cordate-sagittate, less than 1 in. long, subacute, 
margin obscurely sinuate : petiole very short. Peduncles 1-flowered, less than 1 in. 
long, bearing a fulvous pubescence like the sepals. Corolla 4 lin. long.— C. Thom- 
soni, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 67. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Lower plateau, north of Lake Nyass4 
Thomson ! 
