136 XC, CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). | Zpomeea. 
1. I. verticillata, Forsk. Fl. “gypt-Arab. 44. Annual. Stem 
branching from the base; branches slender, prostrate, slightly hairy, or 
glabrescent. Leaves cordate-ovate, obtuse, obscurely mucronate, rarely 
obscurely trilobed, 1-2 in. long, glabrescent or obscurely pubescent on 
both sides; petiole slender, as long as or longer than the blade. 
Flowers 1—2-nate, on short pedicels, lengthening in the fruit, with a pair 
of minute lanceolate bracts at the base. Calyx 2 lin. long; sepals 
ovate to lanceolate, shortly acuminate, with fine spreading deciduous 
hairs. Corolla whitish, subcampanulate, a little longer than the calyx. 
Capsule globose, glabrous, about 4 lin. in diam. Seeds densely pubes- 
cent.—Vahl, Symb. iii. 33; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 123. J. 
geminiflora, Welw. Apont. 590; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 184, 174; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 731. J. gnaphalosperma, Hochst. in 
Kotschy, Pl. Nub. Exsic. No. 123. J. Perrottetii, Choisy in DC. Prodr. 
ix. 373. Convolvulus lasiospermus, Vis. Pl. Aigypt. Nub. 13, t. 1, fig. 2. 
I. rumicifolia, Choisy lc. 351.; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 96. 
Nile Land. Soudan: Sedab, Schweinfurth, 536! Burri, near Khartoum, 
Schweinfurth, 809! Kordofan, Kotschy, 123! Sennar, Kotschy, 183! Cienkowsky. 
Eritrea: Shohos; Togodele,. Ehrenberg; Dalak Islands, Ehrenberg. Abyssinia, 
Schimper, 1325. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrotiet, Lepriéur / 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, near Imbondeiro dos Lobos, Welwitsch, 
6235 parily! Loanda, Gossweiler, 313 ! 
2. I. eriocarpa, FR. Br. Prodr. 484. Annual. Stems long, 
slender, prostrate or high twining, pubescent. Leaves varying from 
cordate-ovate to linear-obleng, with cordate to subbastate base, acute, 
1}-5 in. long, }-2} in. broad, slightly hairy on both sides chiefly on 
the veins ; petiole 1-2 in. long. Flowers few or many in a dense 
subsessile cluster; bracts small, lanceolate to subuiate, persistent ; 
pedicels sometimes as Jong as the calyx. Sepals very hairy, 2-3 lin. 
long, ovate, acuminate, with spreading tips. Corolla 3—4 lin, long, 
campanulate ; white with a purple eye or sometimes rose or purple ; 
midpetaline areas pubescent. Capsule globose, hairy, 2-celled, 4-seeded, 
jin. in diam. Seeds glabrous, finely punctate—Choisy in DC. Prodr. 
ix. 369; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 513; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 732. J. hispida, Roem. & Schult. Syst. iv. 238 ; Hallier f. in. Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. 123; and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 92 ; Dammer in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 331; De Wild. & Dur. Relig. Dewévr. 165. 
ligulata, Boj. Hort. Maur. 229. J, sessiliflora, Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 116; 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 366. J. Rogeri, Choisy, l.c. 381. J. tremato- 
sperma, Hochst. ex Choisy, i.c. 367. Convolvulus hispidus, Vahl, Symb. 
Bot. iii. 29. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Roger, 116! Perrottet, 519! 520! Lepriéur ! 
Gambia, J/ngram ! Sierra Leone: Hart! Scott-Elliot, 5186! Togo, Kling, 174; 
Biittner, 335; Warnecke, 253! Dahomey, Burton! Lagos, Rowland / Millen, 
139! 167! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1027 ! 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Kotschy, 33! 289! Sennar, Kotschy, 146! 151! 
Gallabat: Matamma, Schweinfurth, 721! 2142! Abyssinia; Schimper, 198! 
