Ipomea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 143 
21. I. asperifolia, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 128, Stems 
from a thickened woody rootstock, slender, trailing, densely clothed 
with short yellowish spreading hairs. Leaves oblong-ovate to triangular- 
mucronate, base retuse to shallowly cordate, ovate, obtuse, 14—24 in. long, 
clothed in both surfaces with short stiffish yellowish adpressed hairs ; 
petiole very short, generally less than 6 lin. Flowers solitary or 
geminate in the axils of the leaves; peduncles }—1 in. long; bracteoles 
linear, 3 lin. long; pedicels short. Calyx hairy, like the leaves, 6 lin. 
long; sepals ovate, acute, the two inner lanceolate. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, purple or rose-colour, twice as long as the calyx. Capsule 
glabrous, shorter than the,calyx.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 733. 
S Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, bushy pastures near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 
26! 
22. I. tenuirostris, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 379. Perennial 
Stem slender, twining, more or less densely clothed with yellowish 
spreading hairs. Leaves entire, cordate-ovate, acute, mucronate, 14~34 
in. long, somewhat sparsely clothed on both surfaces with short adpressed 
hairs ; petiole hairy like the stem, 1-2 in. long. Peduncle 1-3 in. long; 
cymes generally dense, many-flowered, compound ; pedicels short ; bracts 
lanceolate, acute, about 14 lin. long, hairy like the sepals. Calyx densely 
minutely hirsute on back and margin, hairs yellowish. Sepals 4—5 lin. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, the inner narrowly lanceolate. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, 1 in.long, midpetaline areas very distinct, minutely 
hirsute, white with a purple throat. Capsule globose, glabrous, beaked with 
the indurated persistent style base, 3 lin. in diam. Seeds brown, minutely 
velvety, bearing long cottony-white hairs on the upper angles.—A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl .Abyss. ii. 70; Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 346 
and in Ann. Bot. Istit. Roma, vii. 229; Hallier f.in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 
128. J. acuminata, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894,72 not of Roem. & 
Mebult. 7. halleriana, Britt. in Journ. Bot. 1894, 170. J. zambesiaca, 
Britt. le. 85 not of Baker. Convolvulus tenwirostris, Steud. in Schimp. 
Pl. Abyss. 1064. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: various localities, Schweinfurth & Riva, 846! 905! 
1080! 1146! 1149! Terracciano & Pappi, 180, 1052, 1292; Ragazzi, 285; 
Abyssinia, 6500-7500 ft. : Memsach; near Gennia, Schimper, 1064! Tigre; Mount 
Sholoda, Schimper, 373! Begemeder; Anadehr, Schimper, 601! Amora Gettel, 
Schimper, 1467! Ankober, Roth, 420! and without precise locality, Schimper, 
62! Plowden ! Steudner. Somaliland: Harar, Robecchi-Bricchetti, 34. Uganda: 
Kavirondo; between Nandi and Kakamagas, 4000-4500 ft, and two days’ march 
from Nandi, Whyte! British East Africa: by the River Kiroruma (Kiloluma), 
Gregory ! 
_ Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; between Kondowe and 
Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Masuka Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Whyte! Shibisa 
to Tshinmuza, Kirk ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 107! Mount Chiradzulu, Whyte! and 
without precise locality, Buchanan, 394! 560! 
eo. fulvicaulis, Hallier fin Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 128, Perennial. 
Stems from a woody rhizome, slender, twining, densely persistently 
pubescent, with yellow-brown hairs. Leaves elliptic-ovate, 13-3 in. 
