142 XC. CONVOLVULACE& (BAKER AND RENDLE). | [pomea. 
18. I. Debeerstii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 114. Stems 
erect, unbranched, about 8 in. long, densely clothed with long spreading 
hairs (reaching 1} in. long). Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute or api- 
culate, with broadly cuneiform or rounded base, $—-1} in. long, 34-5 in. 
broad, rather deep green and bearing long hairs on both surfaces, margin 
long-ciliate ; petiole 1 lin. long. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect; 
peduncle about 6 lin. long, clothed with long hairs, and bearing above 
the middle two lanceolate-oblong persistent bracteoles, 6-8 lin. 
long, often unequal. Sepals linear, hairy, about 4 lin. long, and 
1} lin. broad. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, barely 1} in. long; 
tube very slightly swollen in 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; Upper Marungu, Debeerst, 
95. 
19. I. Paulitschkei, Schweinf. d: Volk. Liste Pl. Somalis, 10. A 
glabrous perennial, with prostrate grooved trigonous stems. Leaves 
shortly petioled, oval or subobovate, 1 in. long, glabrous on both sur- 
faces, ciliolate on margin, often shallowly 3-lobed. Flowers ternate ; 
peduncle as long as the petiole (about } in.) ; pedicels short ; bracteoles 
minute. Sepals 5 lin. long, lanceolate, unequal, distantly ciliate, clothed 
at the base outside with white bristly hairs. Corolla 1} in. long. shortly 
funnel-shaped, glabrous, rose-purple; lobes rounded, reaching halfway 
down. Filaments short, less than 1 lin. long; anthers linear-sagittate, 
2 lin. long. Style very short, scarcely $ lin. Ovary 4-celled; seeds 4, 
glabrous, smooth.—Ghika, Pays des Somalis, 210. 
Nile Land. Somaliland; between the Rivers Jerer and Faf, Prince Ghika. 
20. I.porrecta, Rendle &: Britten in Journ. Bot.1894,172. Perennial. 
Stems from a nodose woody rootstock 2-5 ft. long, sarmentose, clothed 
as are the petioles, peduncles, bracts and sepals, with short stiflish 
yellowish hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, narrowly elliptic or fre- 
quently narrowly ovate-triangular with a shortly cordate base, 14-2 in. 
long, 6-9 lin. broad, obtuse, with a mucro, subglabrous except on the 
veins, shortly ciliate on the margin. Cymes dense; peduncles up to 24 
in. long, few-flowered; pedicels very short; bracts lanceolate-subulate, 
4—5 lin. long. Sepals 9 lin. long, about equal in length, but the outer 
broader, ovate, acuminate, and the inner almost subulate. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, rose-violet, 1? in. long, slightly pilose outside.—Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 733. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambaca ; hilly places near Puri-Cacarambola, 
t Cagtaaese. 6194! Amboella; Quiriri River, above Sakkemecho, 4000 ft., Baum, 
Hallier in Baum’s Kunene-Sambesi Exped. 346, cites Baum’s plant as “I. dle 
pharophylla, Hallier f., var. cordata, Rendle=TJ. porrecta, Rendle and Britten” } 
it is therefore doubtful whether the number should be included here or under J. 
blepharophylla, The two species are quite distinct, the several-flowered almost 
capitate inflorescence at the end of the long peduncle, being charaeteristic of J. 
porrecta,. 
