108 XC, CONVOLVULACE (BAKER AND RENDLE). — [Jerremia. 
13. M. palmata, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 112. Whole 
plant glabrous. Stems herbaceous, glaucescent, 3—6 ft. long, spreading or 
climbing. Leaves glabrous, deeply palmately 5-lobed, the two lowest 
lobes sometimes unequally forked ; lobes linear or lanceolate, acute or 
blunt and mucronate, central one in the upper leaves reaching 
21 lin. long by about 3 lin. broad ; in the lower leaves much shorter and 
broader, according to Hallier 14 in. long by 8 lin. broad. Petiole 
shorter than than the leaf, up to about 1 in. long, channelled above. 
Peduncle 1-flowered, generally longer than the leaf, reaching 3 in.; the 
portion above the small linear acute bracts thickening upwards, 4-8 lin. 
long ; buds ellipsoidal, obtuse. Sepals elliptic, with a rounded apex; 
subequal, 4—5 lin. long, glabrous, greenish-yellow, coriaceous, with 4 
membranous edge. Corolla 1 in. long, broadly and shortly funnel- 
shaped, probably pale yellow ; midpetaline areas badly defined, sparsely 
pubescent above, inconspicuously lined—Hallier f. in Jahrb. Hamb. 
Wiss. Anst. xv. 41. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Kibwezi, Kissner, 708! 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Kakele, on the Chitanda River, Baum, 202! 
German South-west Africa: Damaraland, Hen! Belek, 52; Luderitz, 175. Here- 
roland; near Otyimbingue, Fischer, 105. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Bulawayo, Rand, 128! 129! 364! 
14. M. ampelophylla, Hailier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 11d. 
Stems long, striate, flattened, contorted, furnished with yellow bats 
principally at the nodes, as are also the petioles and bases of the 
peduncles. Leaves glabrous, shortly petioled, up to 2 in. long, palm- 
ately 7-lobed below the middle; lobes nearly twice as long as broad, 
central lobe 14 in. long, rounded or subemarginate, minutely dentate, 
ending ina retlexed curved mucro; secondary nerves prominent ; petiole 
barely } in. long. Peduncle 1-2-flowered, about 1 in. long; bracts 
minute, glabrous, lanceolate; pedicels glabrous, clavate, about 4 lin. 
long. Flower-buds conical, acute. Sepals cartilaginous-membranou, 
pallid, ovate, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, the inner barely 6 lin. long; 
the outer shorter. Corolla probably white, tubular-funnel-shaped, 1f 
ae midpetaline areas obscure.—Dammer in Eng]. Pf. Ost-Afr. ¢. 
ov. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Ulu, Fischer, 412. 
15. M. pentaphylla, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 119 
Annual. Stems slender, twining, covered like the petioles, peduncles 
and pedicels with fine yellowish spreading hairs. Leaves digitate, 
membranous, sparsely adpressed, pilose; segments 5, elliptic, narrow” 
ing to the base, apex acuminate, 2-4 in. long; petiole as long as 
longer than the blade. Peduncles generally long but not exceeding the 
leaf, few- or many-flowered ; pedicels }-1 in. long, ultimately defiexed. 
Sepals elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 6 lin. long, densely clothed with the 
characteristic long spreading hairs. Corolla campanulate-funnel 
shaped, white or yellowish, 1 in.long. Anthers finally twisted. OvarY 
completely 4-celled. Capsule about 6 lin. in diam., enveloped by the 
