Astrochliena.| | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 123 
9. A. floccosa, Haullier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121. An erect 
undershrub, 14 ft. high, clothed with stellate floccose tomentum. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, subacute, slightly repand, up to nearly 4 in. long, 
above 3 in. broad; nerves prominent beneath; petiole 1} in. long. 
Peduncles 1-flowered, above 1 in. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 5 lin. 
long, 2 lin. broad, Corolla funnel-shaped, 1} in. long, probably red- 
purple. Fruit and seeds not known.—Jpomwa floccosa, Vatke in 
Linneea, xliii, 512. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2758, ex 
Vathe, 2754, ex Hallier. 
10. A. Keessneri, Rendle. Erect; stem stout, woody, reaching 
nearly 2 lin. in diam. in the small shoots which comprise the material, 
densely clothed like the petioles and peduncles with a pale ferruginous 
floccose tomentum, rather densely leaved. Leaves oblong to ovate- 
oblong, 2-2? in. long, 3-14 in. broad, apex obtuse, base rounded to flat ; 
sparsely stellately hairy above, stellately grey tomentose beneath with 
prominent floccose subferruginous veins; petiole generally less than 1 
in. long. Peduncles axillary, 6—8 lin. long, more slender than the petioles, 
generally 2—flowered ; pedicels barely 6 lin. long, reflexed after flowering. 
Sepals oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-4 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, blunt, midrib 
prominent on the greyish stellate-tomentose dorsal face. Corolla 1} in. 
long, funnel-shaped, purple, tube darker, limb pale, with well-marked 
areas. Fruit not present. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Saui, Kdssner, 735! 
ll. A. Grantii, Rendle. Stems stout, herbaceous, erect, hollow, 
about 14 ft. high, 3 lin. thick, apparently few from a short woody erect 
rootstock which passes below into the long woody tap-root, covered in 
the younger portion with a dense subferruginous stellate tomentum 
which becomes sparser below. Leaves broadly elliptic in outline, 3-4 
in. long by 2-21 in. broad, apex blunt, often inconspicuously mucronate, 
base generally broadly cuneate, margin above the base repand ; upper 
surface sparsely stellate-hairy, lower stellate-pubescent becoming tomen- 
tose on the conspicuous nerves ; lateral nerves pinnately ascendo-patent ; 
petiole tomentose like the stem, 1 in. or less in length. Peduncle 
generally long, reaching 34 in., generally free from the leaf, the latter 
Sometimes carried up a very short way, tomentose like the stem, 
bearing a subeapitate cyme of generally about 6 flowers suspended 
by a pair of linear to linear-oblanceolate dorsally pubescent bracts 
about 7 lin. long. Pedicels short, 3 lin. or less long; bracts shorter 
and narrower than the leaves. Sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 
acute, 5-6 lin. long, pubescent like the bracts, the inner slightly shorter 
and glabrescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple with lighter limb, about 
1} in. long, glabrous. Capsule subglobose, erect, about 3 lin. broad ; 
pericarp light brown, brittle. Seeds brown, shortly pubescent.—A. 
malvacea, Hallier f, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121 as to syn. Convolvulus 
malvaceus, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 117. 
