112 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). — [Jerremia. 
Welw. i. 729; Henriq. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Brot. xvi. 68; Hallier f, in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 91. M/. hastata, Hallier f.in Engl. Jahrb. 1.c. as to 
the African specimens; Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 330. Zpomea 
angustifolia, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 317. J. filicaulis, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 
358, partly, not of Bl.; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 466; Klotsch in 
Peters, Reise. Mossamb. Bot. 239. J. convolvuloides, Schinz in 
Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx, 273. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Perottet,503! Gambia, Skues! Sierra Leone; 
near Mahela, Elliot, 4052! Whydah, Don / Miberia: Cape Palmas, Vogel, 55! 
Gold Coast: Accra, Don! Vogel! Brown, 350! Cape Coast, Brass! Prampram, 
Krause. Togo, Lome, Warnecke, 35! Lagos: Lokuja and Abeokuta, Migeod ! 
and without precise locality, Millen! Macgregor, 375! 379! Northern Nigeria; 
Nupe, Barter, 1266! Quorra (Niger) River, Vogel, 112! 
Wile Land. Kordofan, Kohn Mountains, Kotschy, 251! Jur: Jur Ghattas, 
Schweinfurth, 1869! Abyssinia, Schimper, 1195. Uganda, Scott-Elliot, 7217! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Mann, 1103! Loango, 
Soyaux. Lower Congo region; various localities, Smith! Burton! Dewevre, 3t3 
Naumann, Dupuis, Phillips, Cabra, Descamps, Gillet, 724, 1087; Butaye, Hens, 
A, 16, Vanderyst. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 6246! 6247! Gossweiler, 214! 
Ambaca, Welwitsch, 6203! MHuilla, Welwitsch, 6122! Ambriz, Monteiro! 
Havungu River, Baum, 479! Amboland, Schinz. 
South Central. East Angola: between Luachim River and Quihumbo, 
Marques, 311. Nindi River Plateau, 3000-4000 ft., Serpa Pinto. Congo Free 
State : Upper Marungu, Deleerst. 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa: near the Umba River, Thomson, 14! 
Kiissner, 71! Kilimanjaro, Smith! north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! Bonda, 
Bohm. Portuguese East Africa: coast of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 14! Rios de 
Sena, Peters; Sena, Kirk / Zambesi Delta; Kongoni River, Kirk! Vicente, 
Scott! British Central Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1077! 
Nyasaland, Buchanan, 1420! Whyte! Rhodesia; Bulawayo, Rand, 130! Ngami- 
land ; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 207! Kwebe Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 133! 
Var. alatipes, Rendle. Glabrous or upper leaf-face obscurely pilose. Stem 
faintly winged. Leaves narrowly linear to narrowly linear-lanceolate, obtuse te 
acute, mucronulate, base auricled ; lobes descending, acute, sometimes obscurely 
denticulate. Pedicels narrowly winged. Outer sepals obtuse, mucronate, with 
conspicuously crisped margin, 23-3 lin. long, the inner 33 lin. long.—M. alatipes, 
Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 330 incl. form angustifolia, 
Wile Land. British East Africa: between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte. 
Nyika Country, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: near Bote, Umba River, Kassner, 96! 
Amboni, Holst, 2828. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, Carvalho. 
The larger outer sepals suggest M. medium (Aniseia medium, Choisy), but the 
difference from the inner sepals is less exaggerated, they are not cordate, and do not 
become greatly enlarged in fruit. 
Var. pubescens, Rendle. Pubescent. Leaves linear-oblong, very obtuse, mucro- 
nulate, base with conspicuously dentate auricles; 13 in. long by 4 lin. broad. 
Peduncles single-flowered, slightly exceeding the leaves. Sepals oblong, puberulous, 
shortly acute, subequal, 3 lin. long. Corolla 8 lin. long. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Scott ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zambesi, Webb! between Vicente and the Quagua, Scott ! 
