104 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). — [Jferremia, 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi: near Tete, Kirk! 
British Central Africa: Boruma, Menyharth, 1073! Ngamiland: Kwebe Hills, 
3300 ft., Lugurd, 821 Matabeleland ; Matlouce, Holub, 1497 and 1498! 
4, M. tuberosa, Rendle. A perennial shrub, glabrous, with 
milky sap. Stems high-climbing, smooth. Leaves as in /. kentrocautos ; 
segments acuminate. Flowers several to many in a lax dichasial cyme 
on long or longish peduncles; pedicels about 1 in. or less in length; 
bracts minute, deciduous. Sepals oval to oval-oblong, generally obtuse, 
but sometimes subacuminate, barely 1 in. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
barely 2 in. long, golden-yellow; limb crenate. Capsule large, 
elliptic-globose, glabrous, as big as a pigeon’s egg or a walnut, 
2-celled, generally 2-seeded by abortion ; pericarp thin, surrounded 
by thin large persistent orbicular toughish sepals, 1? in. long. 
Seeds large, blackish, hirtulous especially on the angles, 2 in. long, about 
7 lin. broad at the base.—Operculina tuberosa, Meissn. in Mart. FI. 
Bras. vii. 212; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 119 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 730; Henriq. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xvi. 68. Jpomwa tuberosa, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 160; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 362 partly (excl. syn. 
Steud.). J. JZendesii, Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 584. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella; in thickets and introduced into 
gardens in Loanda, Welwitsch, 6254! Malange, Marques, 35. 
Also in the Mascarene Islands, India, and Tropical America. 
5. M. dissecta, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 114. Perennial. 
Stems twining, terete, more or less densely clothed with spreading 
yellow hairs. Leaves membranous, 3-6 in. in diam., orbicular in 
general outline, cut down nearly to the base into 7 lanceolate acute 
irregularly grossly toothed segments; petiole up to about 14 in. long; 
hairy. Peduncles long or short, 2—8-flowered; bracts minute, deci- 
duous; pedicels generally 4-1 in. long, Flower buds ovoid-conical. 
Sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, about 9 lin. long, rigid and 
spreading in fruit, reaching 1 in. or more in length. Corolla broadly 
funnel-shaped, white with a purple throat, 14-2 in. long, opening ™ 
the evening. Capsule globose, glabrous, 6 lin. or more in diam. 
Seeds large, 3 lin. long, nearly or quite glabrous, dark coloured.— 
Ipomea sinuata, Ortega, Decades, vii. 84; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 362; 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 468. Convolvulus dissectus, Jacq, Obs. 1 
4, t. 28; Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 171. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel, 238! 
Now cosmopolitan in the tropics. Probably indigenous only in America. 
6. M. bipinnatipartita, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 115. 
Perennial, glabrous; stem procumbent, with long internodes. Leaves 
somewhat thick, orbicular or shortly ovate in general outline, 2}-3 in. 
long, 2-3 in. broad ; two lateral segments approximate, bipinnatisect, 
secondary lobes 6—9 in. long, furnished with large distant teeth ; petiole 
under 1 in. long. Yeduncle about as long as the petiole, bearing above 
the middle the small ovate bracts, which are 2 lin. long. Sepals 
obovate, very minutely puberulous, 8 lin. long, 6 lin. broad. Corolla 
