Astrochleena.] XC. CONVOLYULACE&% (BAKER AND RENDLE). 119 
Corolla 1-2 in. long. 
Leaves ovate-cordate. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate ; cymes few-flowered . 3. 4. Volkensti. 
Sepals elliptic ; cymes 1- to 3-flowered . - 4. A, involuta. 
Sepals oblong-lanceolate ; cymes 1-to 2-flowered 5. A Phillipsia. 
Leaves ovate. 
Corolla about lin. long . : : ; : 
Corolla more than 1 in. long (generally 13-2 in., 
but see A. Stuhlmanni, var. parviflora) 
Base of leaf rounded . : ; 2 . 7, A.malvacea. 
Base of leaf various, but scarcely rounded . 8. A. Stuhlimanni. 
Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong. 
6. A. engleriana. 
Flowers sclitary ; sepals nearly 6 lin, long - 9. A. floecosa. 
Flowers in pairs; sepals 3 lin. long . : . 10. A. Kessneri. 
Leaves broadly elliptic, with cuneate base, repand 
above . : : : z é - - Ll. A. Grantit. 
Leaves broadest above the middle. 
Leaves obovate with cuneate base. 
Flowers solitary . ; : ‘ : . 12. A, ugandensis. 
Flowers cymose . : : : - . 138. A. Whyte. 
Leaves oblanceolate. 
Corolla 1 in. long ; : : ‘ . 14. A. annua, 
Corolla 2 in. long ‘ : : : . 15. A. hyoscyamoides. 
Corolla 4 in. long, hypocrateriform . ‘ ‘ . 16, A. tubiflora. 
Flowers crowded in heads. 
Leaves longer than broad; the subtending leaf 
carried up on the peduncle. 
Leaves spathulate : : : : . . 17. A. melandrioides. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate with subcordate base . 18. A. cephalantha. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate, narrowed to the base . 19. A. polycephala. 
Leaves as broad as long; peduncle free from the sub- 
tending leaf . : : : : : . 20. A. delamereana, 
1. A. lachnosperma, JHallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121. 
Perennial. Stems erect, 1-14 ft. long, clothed with whitish stellate 
tomentum. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, 
entire or slightly repand, broadly rounded or subcuneate at the base, 
thin, 14-34 in. long, 14-3 in. broad, clothed thinly above, more thickly 
beneath with whitish stellate tomentum ; petiole 1—2 in. long. Flowers 
Solitary or several umbellately arranged ; peduncles about 3 lin. long. 
Sepals ovate, subacute, 3-4 lin. long, tomentose like the stem. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, up to 9 lin. long; tube purple; limb light-coloured, 
glabrous ; midpetuline areas strongly defined. Capsule globose, 
-4 lin. in diam., pale brown, glabrous, with 4 brittle valves. Seeds 
Villous.—Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 233. pomea 
lachnosperma, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 356; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 
210; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl, Aethiop. 95. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Kuka, Gosling! Bornu, Oudney ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Habab, 5000 ft., Hildebrandt, 504! Keren, Steudner, 
953. Assaorta, Verracciano § Pappi, 27, 49; Amasen, Terracciano ¥ Papp, 120, 
ats Kotschy, 260! Pfund, 89! 508! Abyssinia, 4000-5000 ft., Schimper, 
