Astrochlena.| XC. CONVOLYULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 125 
obovate and obtuse below, and from 3 to 4} in, long and 14-2 in. broad, 
apex weakly mucronate, margin more or less repand above the base; 
shortly tomentose on both surfaces when young, sparsely pubescent 
when older, with shortly tomentose regularly pinnate veins; petioles 
less than 6 lin. long, hairy like the stem. Peduncle short, about 3 lin. 
long (fruiting peduncles on the lower part of the stem reach 11 in.), 
bearing few- (generally 3-) flowered cymes; pedicels separate from orvery 
shortly adnate to the subtending leaf, very short, 2 lin. long, reaching 
nearly 6 lin., but not recurved in the fruit. Sepals ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, subobtuse to acute, 3 lin. long, dorsally pubescent like the 
bracts and young leaves. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple with paler 
limb, about 1 in. long. Capsule globose, 24 lin. in diam.; pericarp 
glabrous, brown, brittle. Seeds 4, brown, thinly pubescent. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Muoa, Adssner, 55! near 
Bote (Buiti?), Késsner, 93! Gondoona, Kédssner, 118! 
15. A. hyoscyamoides, Hallicr f. in Engl. Jahrb, xviii, 121. A 
robust, erect, perennial herb. Stems sparsely clothed with whitish 
stellate hairs below, densely above. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly 
elliptic-oblanceolate, 2-4 in, long, subacute, with a long weak mucro, 
harrowed to the base, margin repand above the middle sometimes with 
one or two more or less prominent teeth, distinctly petioled, thin, dull 
green and obscurely stellately pubescent above, densely clothed with 
soft greyish-white stellate pubescence beneath. Peduncles up to about 
1 in. long, stiffly erecto-patent, few-flowered ; pedicels short; bracts 
minute, with dense stellate pubescence like the sepals. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, 4-5 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, about 9 lin. 
long; tube purple; limb pallid, glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, 
4 lin. in diam. Seeds rough, sparsely hairy.—Convolvulus hyoscya- 
noides, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 520. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6300! between 
Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte! Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1942! Kirk! Nyika 
Country, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron! German East Africa: lower 
plateau, north of Lake Nyassa, Thomson! Umba Valley, Smith! Karagwe; 
Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3851. Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 8822! steppes on Ugweno 
Mountain, Volkens, 521! 
16. A. tubiflora, Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 228. A 
frutescent herb, erect, densely clothed with minute stellate grey-white 
verbascoid tomentum. Stems up to 16 in. long, robust, erect, 
unbranched, terete, glabrescent below, and covered with a smooth 
Shiny paper-like cortex. Leaves cordate, acute, 3 in. long and as 
broad, grossly and bluntly sinuate-dentate, herbaceous, palmatinerved 
at the base, penninerved above; nerves prominent beneath; petiole 
nearly as long asthe blade. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 14-7 lin. long, 
robust, terete ; flowers 3-5, umbellate, subtended by a pair of oblong 
or ovate-lanceolate caducous bracts, up to 9 lin. long, marked on the 
outside with several rather prominent parallel veins. Bracteoles 
