Astrochlena.| XC. CONVOLYULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 121 
and narrower. Corolla funnel-shaped, about 1 in. long; tube deep 
purple, 8 lin. long by 2 lin. in diam.; limb pale rose-colour, glabrous, 
with well-defined midpetaline areas. Filaments unequal, 2—4 lin. long. 
Style 6 lin. long. Fruit and seeds unknown. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: near Lake Marsabit, Delamere / 
5. A. Phillipsize, 2endle. A sarmentose perennial stellately 
tomentose herb. Stems clothed with stellate white hairs. Leaves 
petioled, broadly cordate-ovate, 3-14 in. long and broad, entire, thinly 
tomentose on the face, densely clothed with white tomentum on the 
back ; petiole shorter than the blade. Flowers solitary or in pairs in 
the axils of the leaves on a short peduncle. Sepals subequal, narrowly 
ovate-oblong, 4 lin. long, less than 14 lin. broad, obtuse, markedly 
keeled, much imbricate, densely tomentose. Corolla lilac, 1} in. long; 
tube oblong, 9 lin. long and nearly 3 lin. in diam.; limb spreading, 
1} in. in diameter. Stamens unequal. Style shorter than the longer 
stamens, with oblong spreading lobes.—Convolvulus Phiilipsie, Baker 
in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 221. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Golis Range, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 
A stunted form collected in the same locality has small leaves (up to 9 lin, long 
and broad), and flowers barely exceeding 9 lin. long. 
6. A. engleriana, Dummer in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 330. Stems 
erect, clothed with ferruginous stellate pubescence. Leaves ovate, 
mucronate, rugose, undulate at the margins, thinly clothed with stellate 
pubescence above, and dense white tomentum beneath, with ferruginous 
main veins. Flowers in lax long-peduncled axillary cymes; peduncle, 
pedicels and calyx clothed with ferruginous stellate tomentum ; pedicels 
about 6 lin. long, reflexed in fruit. Sepals elliptic, 4 lin. long, 14 lin. 
broad. Corolla about 1} in. long, probably violet, funnel-shaped with 
a cylindrical tube 6 lin. long. Stamens unequal; filaments hairy at 
the base. Stigmas rhomboid. 
Nile Land. Soudan: Fazokl, Kotschy, 537! Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schwein- 
furth, 18326! Moru: Neangara, Petherick! Uganda: Kavirondo, Scott-Elliot, 
7124! Whyte! near Mumias, Whyte / 
U Svedetaearraat Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo; Magubo, Stuhlmann, 
5! 
: I have seen no authentic specimen of this species, and make the above deter- 
minations with some hesitation —A, B. R. 
7. A.malvacea, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121 (partly). A 
robust perennial. Stems erect or ascending or decumbent, herbaceous 
or woody, more or less densely clothed with short white pubescence. 
Leaves ovate, entire or repand, 2~5 in. long, rounded at the base, dull 
green, and slightly pubescent above, matted with whitish tomentum 
beneath. Peduncles 1 in. or more in Jength, erecto-patent, 2-5-flowered ; 
pedicels short; bracts minute. Sepals elliptic to ovate, subacute to 
obtuse, pubescent, 4-5 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, purple, 14-2 in. long. Capsule globose, glabrous, 4-valved, 
