Lepistemonopsis.| XC. CONVOLYULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). Liz 
the globose ovary. Capsule globose, about 8 lin. in diam., surrounded 
by the accrescent calyx.—Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 229. 
Nile Land. Galla Country : Mons Ciaffa, Riva, 568. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu; 5000 ft., 
Volkens, 1229, 2353. 
23. CALONYCTION, Choisy in Mém. Soc. Genéve, vi. 441 ; 
Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1026. 
Sepals rather cartilaginous, glabrous or with large fleshy spreading 
bristles, closely adpressed to the corolla-tube, long awned or blunt ; 
equal or the outer shorter. Corolla large, white or lilac, hypocrateri- 
form, rarely campanulate, glabrous. Stamens and styles exserted or 
included. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, 4-ovuled; stigma biglobose. 
Capsule 4-valved, 4-seeded.—Climbing herbs. Leaves thin, herbaceous, 
generally glabrous, cordate, sometimes angular or palmately 3—9-lobed. 
Flowers peduncled in the leaf-axils, solitary or in monochasial or 
dichasial cymes. Pedicels short, thick clavate, containing a copious 
milky juice, becoming enlarged and fleshy in fruit. 
Species 6-7 in the hotter parts of America; two species subspontaneous almost 
everywhere in the tropics. 
Corolla white, hypocrateriform . : : : . 1. C. speciosum. 
Corolla lilac, tubular below, becominz funnel-shaped 
above : : : : : : : . 2. C. muricatum. 
1. C. speciosum, Choisy in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, vi. 441, t. 
I. fig. 4 (excl. var. b). Stems climbing widely, smooth or muricated, 
Leaves cordate-ovate, long acuminate, apex obtuse, conspicuously 
mucronate, entire in old world specimens, 4—6 in. long, 34-5 in. broad, 
membranous, glabrous; petiole about as long as the blade in the adult 
leaf. Peduncle about as long as the petiole, 1-6-flowered ; flowers 
generally in a lax cincinnus, rarely dichasial; bracts small, deciduous. 
Sepals coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic, the three outer abruptly aristate, 
including the awn about 8 lin. long, the two inner scarcely aristulate, 
or mucronate, Corolla hypocrateriform, white, expanding at night ; 
tube cylindric, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lin. in diam., expanded limb 4-6 in. 
in diam, Capsule large, ovoid, brown, tipped by the persistent woody 
conical style base, 1 in. long without the mucro. Seeds glabrous, dark 
brown, 4 lin. long, and as broad.—Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix, 345 (excl. 
var. 3), Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 153; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. i. 742; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 465. C. Bona-now, Bojer, 
Hort. Maur, 227; Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1028. Tpomeea 
Bona-nox, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 228. J. grandiflora, Lam. Ry 467 
as to syn. Rheede. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. Sierra Leone: cultivated near 
Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4344! and at Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5444! Lagos, Rowland / 
Millen, 88! Millson ! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, Mann, 2324! Ibu, Vogel, 
38! Cumeroons : Barombi, Preuss, 510! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 635! 
Mile Land. Gallabat, Schweinfurth, 2184. 
