Ipomea. | XC, CONVOLVULACE# (BAKER AND RENDLE). 147 
puberulous, above 1 in. long. Capsule glabrous.—Durand & Schinz, 
Etudes FI. Congo, 200. 
Nile Land. Niam-Niam: Gumango Hill, Schwetnfurth, 2926. 
32. I. crassipes, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4068, var. shirensis, 
Baker. Stem slender, wide-trailing, very hairy, hairs fulvous, long, 
spreading. Leaves ovate, obtuse, 1-1% in. long, with long spreading 
fulvous hairs on both sides, truncate at the base ; petiole }—} in. long, 
hairy like the stems and peduncles. Flowers solitary, rarely geminate, 
peduncles erect, shorter than the leaves (barely 1 in. long), with a pair 
of large persistent ovate foliaceous bracteoles a little below the calyx ; 
pedicel about 2 lin. Jong. Calyx like the leaves hairy, 7-8 lin. long; sepals 
unequal, the outer ovate, subacuminate, the inner narrower. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, bright red, 14-2 lin. long. Capsule globose, 4 lin. in 
diam., glabrous. Seeds glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands 
Buchanan, 89! Matope tv Mandala, Scott-Elliot, 8443 ! 
Characterised by its long tawny hairs on stem and leaves, and the blunt 
leaves, 
Var. hirta, Hallier f. in Baum, Kunene-Sambesi Exped. 346. Shoots including 
peduncles, bracts and sepals densely covered with short fulvous to pale ferruginous 
subadpressed hairs. Leaves short-stalked, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to ovate, with 
a shallowly cordate base, 11-3 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, subobtuse ; petioles 1-7 lin. 
long. Peduncles short, scarcely exceeding the petioles, or longer, }-13 in. long; 
bracteoles linear-subulate, barely 1-5 lin. long; pedicel equal to the peduncle or 
shorter, 1-6 lin. long, Outer sepals ovate with scarcely cordate base, 6-9 lin. long, 
the narrow inner sepals slightly longer. Corolla 1} in. long, limb pale rose-colour, 
throat deeper. 
Lower Guinea. Southern Angola: Chitanda River, below Goudkopje, 
3800 ft., Baum, 151! Kubango River, above Kuimarva, 3300 ft., Baum, 454 
Var. ukambensis, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 46. An undershrub; branches 
prostrate, flexuose, clothed, but not densely, with short whitish spreading hairs. 
Leaves oval or ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, base rounded, up to 13 in. long and 6 lin. broad, 
sparsely hairy, like the stem, on both surfaces. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 
about 1 lin. long; bracteoles linear to narrowly elliptic, 4 in. long, pedicel about 
equal to the peduncle. Calyx 6 lin. long, hairy like the leaves, outer sepals ovate, 
base scarcely cordate. Corolla 14 in. long; limb lighter coloured than the throat.— 
I. ukambensis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 510. J. oblongata, Dammer in Engl, Pil. 
Ost-Afr. C. 331, not of E. Meyer. 
Mile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2762! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, below Marangu, 3700- 
4000 ft., Volkens, 2139. 
33. I, cardiosepala, Hochst. ex Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 429, not of 
Meissn. Annual. Stems very slender, trailing or twining, often 
branching, pilose, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves cordate-ovate, mem- 
branous, thinly hairy, entire, 1-2 in. long, acute or obtuse; petiole 
about as long as the blade. Peduncles often short, but varying from 
4-2 in. long, 1-3-flowered ; pedicels short, defiexed in the fruiting stage ; 
bracteoles minute, lanceolate. Sepals 3—4 lin. long, the three outer ovate 
