Merremia.| XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 107 
petioles and peduncles. Leaves rather narrowly ovate in outline, 
apex rounded, obtuse, deeply lyrate-pinnatifid, 1}-24 in. long., rather 
thick, upper surface subscabrid, lower prominently veined, with a 
large elliptic end-lobe and two smaller ascending side-lobes, all 
irregularly toothed ; petiole shorter than the blade, up to 9 lin. long. 
Peduncle shorter than the leaf, 3-1 in. long, 1-2-flowered ; bracts 
small, ovate, obtuse; pedicel thickened upwards, about as long as the 
peduncle. Flower-buds conical. Sepals glabrous, oblong, obtuse, 
6-9 lin. long, the two outer shorter than the inner, subelliptic. 
Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, apparently about 1 lin. long, “ orange, 
variegated with yellow, dark purple at base of tube” (Welwitsch). 
Fruit and seeds not seen.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 728. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, in sandy thickets near Quitage, 
on the River Cuije, Welwitsch, 6172! 
11. M, Pes-Draconis, Hailier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 5387. A 
herb densely covered except on the upper leaf-face with short yellowish 
spreading hairs. Stem long, probably prostrate, reaching 1 line in 
thickness, with internodes up to nearly 1} in. long. Leaves shortly 
petioled, palmately-pinnately 5-lobed up to 24 in. long; lobes linear- 
acute, the median several times longer than the lateral, up to 2 in. 
long by 2 lin. broad; lateral lobes 1-8 lin. long, conspicuously re- 
ticulately veined on the lower surface; petiole 14 lin.long. Peduncles 
axillary, up to 24 in. long, rigidly spreading with recurved apex ; bracts 
rather larger, ovate-lanceolate, lowest up to 8 lin. long and half as 
broad. Cymes subspicate; pedicels very short. Calyx 6 lin. long; 
Sepals ovate-elliptic, subacute, hairy, the inner shorter, glabrous. 
Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, probably yellow, an inch long and 
almost as broad ; midpetaline areas bearing yellow silky hairs with an 
apical tuft, but not well defined. 
South Central. Congo Free State ; Kasai district ; by the Lutembue River, 
a tributary of the Lubudi, Descamps. : 
12. M. pedata, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 552, and xviii. 116. 
Rootstock woody. Stems long, slender, climbing, glabrous above the 
hairy base. Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous, palmately cut nearly 
to the base with 5 unequal linear segments, the central ones 1} in. long, 
3-1 lin. broad. Peduncle as long as the petiole, usually 1-flowered ; 
bracts small, ovate. Calyx glabrous, 6 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, 
acute, the two outer sometimes ovate, shorter than the inner. Corolla 
broadly funnel-shaped, 1 in. long, probably white, streaked with purple. 
Stamens 6 lin. long; filaments subulate, pilose towards the base.— 
Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss, vi. 537 (incl. var. gracilis). M. Gregorii, 
Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 39. Zpomea pedata, Hochst. & Steud. PI. 
Exsice, No. 948 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 384. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Abdallah, Keller, 234. British East Africa : 
Golbanti, on the lower Tana River, Gregory ! 
Also in Arabia, 
