Astrochlena.| XC. CONVOLVULACEX (BAKER AND RENDLE). 127 
densely rough woolly outside, with 5-7 subparallel black ribs. Corolla 
red, glabrous. Capsule glabrous, 4-valved. Other characters but 
especially the indumentum as in 4A. cephalantha. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Wadiboma (Kwadiboma ?), Fischer, 
417, 
Distinguished from A. cephalantha by the form of the leaf and colour of the 
ower, and also by the somewhat larger obscurely veined bracts and still coarser 
indumentum. 
20. A. delamereana, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 60. Shrubby. 
Stem robust, densely clothed as are the peduncles and petioles with 
subferruginous stellate tomentum. Leaves broadly ovate or sub- 
orbicular, 24—4 in. long and broad, apex subobtuse, inconspicuously 
mucronate, base shallowly cordate, undulate in the margin, stellate- 
pubescent on both surfaces, more densely beneath; veins prominent 
beneath and stellately tomentose; petiole $-1 in. long. Flowers in 
dense many-flowered heads; peduncles stout, 1—2 in. long, 1 lin. thick, 
free from the subtending leaf; pedicels under 2} lin. long; bracts 
small, oblong-acuminate, caducous, Sepals unequal, about 5 lin. long ; 
2 outer ovate, subacute, stellate-pubescent, hiding the lanceolate inner 
ones. Corolla funnel-shaped, nearly 2 in. long, apparently a very pale 
purple. Filaments 4—6 lin. long. Ovary glabrous. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Cantalla and Hadda, Delamere ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
21. Ipomcea dendroidea, Choisy in JJém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, viii. 
5). Stem shrubby, terete, branched, clothed like the leaves with 
yellowish-black stellate pubescence. Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, 
obtuse, subsessile, 1-2 in. long, 3-6 lin. broad. Peduncle 1-flowered, 
very short. Calyx-segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, unequal, 3 lin. long, 
outer with a median line of stellate hairs, inner glabrous. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, yellow, scarcely 1 in. long; tube very narrow, glabrous, 
Capsule glabrous, 4-valved. Seeds like a grain of wheat, clothed with 
simple red-brown hairs.—DC. Prodr. ix. 356. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Paris Herbarium, 
Perhaps this is a species of Astrochlena. 
25. QUAMOCLIT, Tournef. ex Moench, Meth. 453. 
Sepals herbaceous, subequal, small, glabrous, obtuse, often mucronu- 
late or appendaged below the tip. Corolla in African specimens 
hypocrateriform, scarlet, glabrous; limb small. Stamens and style 
exserted. Ovary glabrous, 4-celled, 4-ovuled. Pollen and stigma of 
Tpomvea. Capsule 4-celled, 4-seeded. Seeds generally glabrous, dark.— 
Annual climbing herbs, usually glabrous. Leaves entire, lobed or 
pinnate, Flowers rather small, in lax cymes.—/pomea, Benth, et 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 870, partly. 
