118 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE).  [Calonyction. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Moller. 
Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6147 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Luebo River, Descamps. 
A widespread tropical species. 
Gaboon, Soyaux, 377. 
2. C. muricatum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 264. Perennial. Stems 
wide-climbing, papillose. Leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, 
acuminate, ultimately mucronulate, membranous,, glabrous, 4—9 In. 
long and as broad. Peduncle long; flowers 3-6, in a lax dichasial or 
monochasial cyme; bracts minute; pedicels 1-14 in. long, much 
thickened in the fruiting stage. Sepals ovate, acuminate, tapering to a 
long fleshy point which is shorter in the two inner, keeled, glabrous, 
about 6 lin. long. Corolla red or lilac, about 3 in. long; tube about 
2-21 in. long, passing gradually into the funnel-shaped limb ; expanded 
limb about 2 in.in diam. Capsule globose, up to 1in. in diam. Seeds 
4, smooth, brown, 5 lin. long.—Hallier f. in Eng]. Jahrb. xviii. 154 and 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1044; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 742. 
C. speciosum, var. muricatum, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 345. Jpomea 
muricata, Jacq. Hort. Scheenbr, iti. 40, t. 323 
323. I. shirensis, Baker in 
Kew Bulletin, 1894, 74, not of Oliv. J. Kirkii, Britten in Journ. Bot. 
1894, 85. 
Convolvulus muricatus, Linn. Mant. 44. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Jagram! Sierra Leone: Mahela, Scott-Elliot, 
4074! Lagos, Dawodu, 257! 
Nile Land. Bongo, Schweinfurth, 2501! 
Surth, 288! 
Lower Guinea. 
Mozamb. Dist. 
Cultivated at Khartoum, Schwein- 
Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 6146! 
German East Africa: Rovuma Bay, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; Upper Shire Valley, Kirk! Shire Highlands 
Buchanan, 391! 
Also in the Cape Verde and Mascarene Islands, Tropical Asia and Tropical 
America. 
24. ASTROCHLZANA, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 120. 
Sepals elliptic to lanceolate or ovate, generally more or less acute, 
subequal or the inner shorter and narrower. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
lilac-purple or violet, or white with a purple eye. Stigmas oblong. 
Capsule 4-valved. Seeds 4, hairy.—Herbs growing erect from a stout 
persistent rootstock, sometimes shrubby; stems sometimes trailings 
the whole plant, or the younger portions covered with stellate hairs. 
Species 19. Endemic; chiefly East African. 
Flowers solitary or in 2- to several-flowered cymes, often 
umbellate or corymbose, not crowded in heads. 
Corolla less than 1 in. long. 
Peduncle 1- to several-flowered; leaves ovate or 
elliptic ; corolla 9 lin. long . . 
Peduncle many-flowered ; leaves rhomboid ; 
lin. long 
: 1. A. lachnosperm4. 
corolla 
2. A. solanacea. 
