Tpomeea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 151 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Perrottet, 508! Heudelot, 751. Gambia, 
Ingram! Brown-Lester, 24! Sierra Leone, Barter, 1748! Don! Scott-Elliot, 
3845 ! Reade! Turner! Smeathman! Liberia: near Monrovia, Whyte ! Cape Palmas, 
Vogel, 43! Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson, 239! Ashanti, Cummins! Dahomey, 
Burton! Togo: Bismarckburg, Kling, 175; Biittner, 119, 221. Lagos, Barter, 
20185! Dawodu, 18! Irving! Southern Nigeria: Onitsa, Barter, 1748! 
Cameroons, Bates, 44! Dinklage, 218, 1148, Braun. Fernando Po, Vogel, 234! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Unyoro forest, Grant! Ruchigga, 7000 ft., Bagshawe, 
527! Musozi, Bagshawe, 9!  Kavirondo, Whyte / Scott-Elliot, 7103! 7406! 
Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7981 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon; Sibange, Soyaux, 385! 398! Biittner, 378. 
Lower Congo: Msuata, Biittner, 379 ; Kisantu, Gillet, 449b, 760; Bingila, Du- 
puis; Lobe, Dewevre, 246; Leopoldville, Luja! and without precise locality, 
Laurent, Cabra, Descamps ; Smith, 63! Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 6188 ! 
Huilla, Welwitsch, 6123 ! and without precise locality, Curror / Monteiro / 
South Central. Congo Free State: various localities, Hens, 107! Bittner, 
380; Pogge, 972, 1188, 1198, 2027. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Zanguebar, Kirk, 77! Kilimanjaro 
to 8400 ft., Meyer, 104, 303; Gonda (Igonda), Béhm, 273; Ukira, Fischer, 414; 
Rungwe Stock, 5500 tt., Goetze, 1139; Kinga Mountains, Goetze, 1202. North 
of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! British Central Atrica : Kambole, south-west of Lake 
Tanganyika, 5000 ft., Mutt!’ Urungu; Fwambo, Nutt! Rhodesia, Salisbury, 
Rand, 561! 
Var. albiflora, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 735.—Corolla, accord- 
ing to Welwitsch, smaller than in the type, campanulate and white. No flower is 
present in the specimens, but an unexpanded corolla measures nearly 1 in. long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; thickets between Bengo and 
Sange, near Canaulo and Camilungo, Welwitsch, 6189 ! 
40. I. operosa, ©. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 275. Stems 
climbing, densely pubescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, 
4-5 in. long, acute, upper face covered with short adpressed whitish- 
yellow hairs, lower face shortly tomentose. Flowers many in a dense 
head; bract large, cymbiform, acute, clothed with long hairs, 
especially at the base. Sepals unequal, narrowly linear-lanceolate, 
acute, densely pilose, about 6 lin. long, the outermost 7 lin. Corolla 
bright red, glabrous, not lobed, 14 in. long. Stamens half as long as 
the corolla.—J. involucrata, var. operosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxx. 387. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Kirk ! Whyte ! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 370! 
A troublesome weed with a long spongy tap-root.. 
41. I. pileata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 94. Annual. Stems 
very slender, twining, shortly pilose. Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, 
entire, membranous, 14-2 in. long and broad, green and thinly hairy 
above, paler and thinly hairy beneath; petiole slender, as long as the 
blade or shorter, pubescent. Peduncle }-2 in. long. Flowers few or 
many in a dense head enclosed in a large foliaceous boat-shaped bract, 
1} in. or less in diam., with two cusps ; inner bracts narrowly elliptic to 
