144 XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). [ Zpomeea. 
long, 2-13 in. broad, entire, obtuse or emarginate, base shallowly 
cordate to subtruncate, thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent 
beneath, especially on the nerves; petiole from 4-2 in. long, very 
pubescent, like the stem and peduncle. Peduncle $—1?in. long ; flowers 
few, capitate ; bracts ovate, foliaceous, persistent, covered on the back 
and margin as are the sepals, with the characteristic yellowish 
hairs. Calyx $ in. long; sepals acute, outer ovate, inner narrower. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, more than 1 in. long, purple, midpetaline areas 
sparsely pilosulose. Fruit and seeds not seen.—Aniseia fulvicaulis, 
Hochst. in herb. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 74; Choisy in DC. 
Prodr. ix. 431. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 270! and 
without precise locality, Parkyns! British East Africa: Gopo Lal Maru, 
Gregory ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanji, Whyte! 
24. I, hypoxantha, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 128. Peren- 
nial. Stems from a woody rootstock, climbing, clothed, like the leaves, 
with short adpressed yellow pubescence. Leaves shortly petioled, cordate- 
oblong, obtuse or mucronate, nearly 1} in. long, 1 in. broad, glabrescent 
above, densely clothed with short yellow hairs beneath, Peduncle 
1-flowered, nearly 1 in. long; bracteoles a little below the calyx, small, 
subulate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, minutely hoary, puberulous, 4 
lin. long; outer rather broader. Corolla above 1 in. long, entire, thinly 
hairy.—-J. fulvicaulis, var. depauperata, Hallier f. in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Belg. xxxyil. 93. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lunda; Mussumba, Pogge, 334. 
Apparently a distinct species, differing from J, fulvicaulis in the solitary 
flowers, small bracts, and somewhat smaller sepals. 
25. I. hewittioides, Vallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 127. 
Perennial, with a tuberous rootstock. Stems prostrate or wide- 
climbing, sparsely clothed like the petioles and peduncles with spread- 
ing fulvous hairs. Leaves subcordate-ovate, acute, sometimes slightly 
pandurate, becoming more or less oblong to oval with a short cordate 
base in the lower part of the shoot, 14-3 in. long, }—21 broad, deep 
green and glabrescent above, paler beneath, with prominent sparsely 
pilose ribs, margins slightly sinuate and ciliate; petioles 14—1} in. long. 
Peduncles axillary, very short or long (varying in Welwitsch’s specimens 
from 1}~-10 in.), bearing several closely crowded flowers; bracts ovate, 
acute, $-} in. long and about } in. broad, fringed with stiffish yellow 
hairs, resembling and closely applied to the outer sepals. Sepals 
diminishing in width from the outer to the inner, the two outer ovate; 
the median lanceolate, the inner linear-subulate. Corolla pale red 
purple, with a lighter limb, 2 in. long, funnel-shaped above, tubular 
below.—-Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 733; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 
1901,14. JZ. andongensis, Rendle and Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 171: 
I. crassipes, var. hewittioides, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 49- 
