126 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). [| Astrochlena, 
minute, linear; pedicels a little longer than the peduncle, subclavate. 
Sepals herbaceous-membranous, subpellucid, bearing short grey tomen- 
tum on the outside and marked with three rather prominent parallel 
nerves, the two outer ovate-lanceolate, 6 lin. long, three inner larger, 
10 lin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or emarginate. Corolla hypocra- 
teriform ; tube 44 in. long, 1} lin. thick; limb white, a purple zone 
nearly 6 lin. broad below the limb; midpetaline areas, grey-tomentose 
outside, plainly defined. Anthers included, linear-sagittate, 3 lin. long. 
Ovary shortly ovoid, glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, concealed in 
the enlarged sepals, about 6 lin. in diam., 4-valved, 2-celled. Seeds 4, 
trigonous, covered all over, but especially at the two lateral angles, with 
short grey-whitish tomentum. 
Wile Land. Galla Country: Irma, near the River Daua, on granite rocks, 
Riva, 1469. 
Not seen. 
17. A. melandrioides, /ullier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 122. Stem 
6 ft. long, erect, thick, woody, branched upwards, especially in the 
younger parts softly cinereo-tomentose. Leaves spathulate, about 3 in. 
long, 1} in. broad, entire, acute, mucronate, narrowed to the petiole; 
petiole less than 6 lin. long. Flowers in dense few-flowered peduncled 
heads, the subtending leaf raised on the peduncle ; pedicels very short; 
bracts broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subcarinate, ovate, as long 
as the sepals. Sepals lanceolate, acute, subcarinate, 6 lin. long, 14 lin. 
broad. Corolla funnel-shaped, subentire, up to 1} in. long, white with 
a deep purple-violet base. Capsule glabrous, 4-valved. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: by the Ugalla River, Bohm, 255. 
18. A. cephalantha, /uallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 122. Stem 
erect, clothed, especially towards the top, with long woolly hatrs. 
Leaves shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing 
towards the subcordate base; petioles up to 8 lin. long. Flowers ™ 
very dense long-peduncled (up to 24 in.) axillary heads; leaves 
inserted on the lower peduncles much below the middle, on the uppe 
higher, even above the middle; bracts exceeding and enveloping the 
sepals, broadly ovate-subcordate, long-acuminate, median nerve very 
prominent on the outside. Outer sepals broadly ovate, acute, 6 lin. 
long, up to 5 lin, broad. Corolla 2 in. long, 14 in. broad, similar 10 
form and colour to that of A. melandrioides. : 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Muansa, south of the Victoria Nya”, 
Stuhlmann, 4521. 
19. A. polycephala, VHallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 122. 
Nearly allied to A. cephalantha. Stem erect, densely hairy. Leaves 
shortly petioled, broadly lanceolate, entire, acute, narrowed to the 
base, carried up on the peduncles beyond the middle. Flowers in very 
dense many-flowered involucrate heads on long lateral peduncles, very 
numerous at the top of the stem; bracts very broadly ovate, acute, 
