110 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE).  [Jerremia. 
short peduncles, sometimes geminate or ternate. Sepals oblong-ovate, 
acute, the 3 outer densely clothed with long stiffish spreading hairs. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, 3-1 in. long, yellowish, becoming reddish.— 
Convolvulus somalensis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 517, not of Franch. ; 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb, xviii.110. C. hadramauticus, Baker in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 337. Zpomea pentaphylla, Vatke J.c. 509, not of Jacq. 
I. crinigera, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2437. 
Nile Land, Somaliland: Wodderi, on the coast plain, Hildebrandt, 883, a, 
883, b. 
Also in Arabia. 
The identification of Convolvulus somalensis, Vatke, with the Arabian species, 
Ipomea crinigera, Oliv.,is given on the authority of Hallier,who has seen Hildebrandt’s 
specimens at Berlin. Previously (see Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 110) Hallier had suggested, 
as the result of an anatomical examination of the somewhat imperfect material, that 
the Somaliland plant might perhaps not be a member of the Order Convolvulacee. 
18. M. gallabatensis, /allier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 113. Leaf 
(one only present) large, long-petioled, ovate-oblong, acute, subcordate, 
glabrous, 4 in. long, 2} in. broad, the sides irregularly pandurately 
lobed, pale green and scabrid above with prominent veins, glaucescent 
below and finely rugulose. Peduncle very long, much exceeding the 
leaf ; cyme dense, many-flowered ; bracts small, lanceolate, acute, pallid, 
the lower slightly longer than the sepals. Flowers in two geminate, 
shortened monochasial cymes; buds ovoid, subacute. Sepals elliptic, 
equal, coriaceous, pallid, glabrous, about 5 lin. long. Corolla twice as 
long as the calyx; midpetaline areas clothed with dense yellowish 
pubescence. 
Nile Land. Gallabat ; near Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2182. 
19. M. verecunda, /endle. Stems procumbent, rather slender, 
very thinly puberulous. Leaves deeply palmately 7—9-lobed, glabrous 
above, thinly pubescent beneath and on the petioles; lobes 3-14 
in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, varying somewhat in shape, linear-oblong, 
narrowly oblong-lanceolate or spathulate-obovate, acute or obtuse, 
weakly apiculate, narrowing toa slender stalk-like base ; petioles $ toa 
little more than 1 in. long. Peduncles exceeding the petioles, one- 
flowered, 1}-2} in. long, sparsely hairy like the stem; bracteoles linear 
or linear-lanceolate, acute, thinly pubescent, 3-4 lin. long ; pedicel 5-8 
lin. long, stouter than the peduncle and more densely pubescent. 
Flower-buds bluntly ovoid. Sepals herbaceous, ovate, obtuse to sub- 
acute, about 4 lin. long, pubescent, pale green with 6-7 well-marked 
purple-brown nerves, Corolla broadly campanulate, about 6 lin. long; 
9 lin. broad at the mouth, white with a purple-brown or chocolate 
centre, glabrous ; midpetaline areas not defined. Capsule apparently 
globose ; pericarp very thin; seeds 4, 2 lin. in diam., blackish, smooth, 
glabrous, ciliate on the angles with minute flattened hairs.—/pom@#4 
quinquefolia, var. pubescens, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 66. 
