122 XC, CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE).  [Astrochlena. 
4lin.in diam. Seeds 4, black, glabrous——Baker & Wright in Dyer, 
Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 69. Brewerta malvacea, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 
Mossamb, Bot. 245, t. 37. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk! 
Stewart ! Expedition Island, Kirk / Inhambane and Rio de Sena, Peters / 30-40 ft. 
above the Inagua, Usambusha, Scott / British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, 
Buchanan, 31! 
Also in South Africa. 
Var. epedunculata, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 59. Dwarf, tufted. Branches 
short, 2-6 in. long, crowded. Leaves ovate, small, not exceeding 1 in. in length and 
a little over 6 lin. in breadth. Cymes sessile, 2- to 4-flowered. Sepals lanceolate 
to bluntly ovate, barely exceeding 3 lin. long. Corolla bright rose-purple, 13 in 
long, and as broad at the mouth. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Salisbury, Rand, 511! 
Var. parviflora, Rendle. Apparently a smaller plant, with leaves less than 2 in. 
long. Pedunceles 9 lin. long or less. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 lin. long. Corolla 
purplish, 1} in. long. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Taruma (Duruma?); near Tulpanga 
Kdssner, 437! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Lower plateau north of Lake Nyass 
Thomson ! 
8. A. Stublmanni, Jallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 386. An erect 
or trailing herb, with the habit of an Althea, and a verbascoid stellate 
indumentum. Stem stout, simple, floccose, as are the petioles and 
peduncles, with dense ochraceous indumentum. Leaves ovate, 4-9 1D. 
long, 3 in. broad, obtuse or subacute, entire or more or less repant- 
dentate, base variable, broadly cuneate, truncate to shallowly cordate, 
dull green above, with tufts of stellate hairs, densely cinereo-tomentosé 
beneath with ochraceous tomentum on the conspicuous veins. Flowers 
in few- to many-flowered corymbs forming an ample panicle; peduncles 
robust, rigid, spreading-erect, longer than the petioles (up to 2 in. long); 
pedicels short, subumbellate, subclavate, about 4 lin. long; bracts a? 
bracteoles small, cymbiform, caducous. Sepals ovate, obtuse, three 
outer larger than the two inner, 4—5 lin. long, and about half as broad, 
cinereo-tomentose on the back. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 1} 12- 
long and 2 in. broad ; tube deep purple, limb paler. Filaments unequ®) 
dilated and pubescent at the base, Capsule globose, dirty brow?, 
glabrous. Seeds 4, black, papillose. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria, Gosling ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa : Ukwere, 150 ft. Stuhlmann, 8383 ; 
Uluguru foothills, Stuhlmann, 8683; east of Mtondwe 1300 ft., Stuhlmann, 8279; 
Mikumi, 1700 ft., Goetze, 393. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Nyike 
plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte! |Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte: 
Milanji, Whyte, 108! Chiromo, Scott-Elliot, 8689 ! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan, 72! Rhodesia: Mashonaland, near Umtali, Cecil, 35! 
Var. parviflora, Rendle. Flowers smaller, with ovate to ovate-oblong sepals 
3 lin. long. Corolla (withered) apparently not exceeding 1 in. in length. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Mpororo, 3000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8044! 
