Tpomeea. | XC, CONVOLYULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 141 
anthers cordate, } lin. long. Ovary hairy; annular disc conspicuous ; 
style 2 lin. long. Fruit and seeds not seen.—ZJ. aff. leptocaulos, Hallier f. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 127. 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, iii. 3! 
15. I. recta, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 114. Stems erect, 
unbranched, 8-10 in. long, densely covered with short spreading hairs. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate with cuneiform base and apex, apiculate, }~1} 
in. long, 14-24 lin. broad, upper surface thinly hairy, lower surface with 
asilvery indumentum, margin ciliate; petiole 1 lin.or less long. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, erect; peduncle hairy, 5 lin. long, bearing above the 
middle two linear-lanceolate persistent bracteoles, 34—5 lin. long. Sepals 
linear, about 2 lin. long and barely 1 lin. broad, hairy on the median nerve. 
Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, about 14 in. long; tube slightly swollen 
at the middle and 1-1} lin. in diam. at the base. Stamens alternately 
long and short, hairy at the base. Ovary glabrous. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga; Lukofu, Verdick, 306. 
16. I. mweroensis, Baker in* Kew Bulletin, 1895, 291. Stems 
wide-climbing, slender, purple, clothed with fine spreading hairs. 
Leaves petioled, cordate-ovate, acute, 14-1} in. long, green, and hairy 
on the main nerve on the upper face, thinly pilose and purple beneath ; 
petiole about 6 lin. long. Cymes laxly few-flowered ; peduncle nearly 
as long as the leaf, 11-1} in. long; pedicels long; bracts lanceolate. 
Calyx 3 lin. long; sepals narrowly ovate-acuwinate, slightly pilose. 
Corolla white, with 5 pilose bands outside, broadly funnel-shaped, 1} in. 
long. Stamens 4 the length of the corolla. 
,Mfoxamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Tanganyika-Moero Plateau, Carson, 
Resembles 2. mombassana, Vatke, but is distinguished by the shorter sepals 
without the sagittate base. 
17. I, blepharophylla, Vullier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 125. 
Rootstock woody. Stems slender, trailing, densely clothed with short 
yellowish Spreading hairs. Leaves linear to linear-oblong, obtuse, 
mucronate, rounded at the base, 14-2} in. long, to about }$ in. broad, 
Sparsely pilose on both sides, or often only on the nerves of the under 
face, margin densely ciliolate; petiole very short. Peduncle very short, 
1-flowered ; bracteoles minute, linear. Calyx shortly hairy and ciliate, 
6 lin, long. Sepals, 3 outer lanceolate subobtuse, 2 inner narrower and 
slightly longer. Corolla reddish, narrowly funnel-shaped, 2 in. long; 
tube slender, cylindrical in the lower third. Capsule glabrous.—Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 732. 
Upper Guinea. (Gold Coast: Afrom plains, Johnson, 728! 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1818! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambaca, Welwitsch, 6193! 
Var. cordata, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 37.—Leaves ovate-oblong, broader 
than in the type, cordate at the base. 
Mozamb. Dist. British East Africa: Kikuyu; Marungu, Gregory ! 
