154 XC. CONVOLVULACE& (BAKER AND RENDLE). [ [pomeea. 
46. I, abyssinica, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 94. Stems stout, 
woody, hollow, erect, nearly 2 ft. long and 2 lin. thick at the base, 
densely hairy. Leaves ovate or the lower smaller ones more or less 
oblong, ascending, entire, acute or the lower obtuse, 1}—3 in. long, f-1} 
in. broad, greenish and hairy above, whitish and more densely hairy 
beneath ; petiole very short. Flowers in dense heads from the axils of 
the upper leaves on ascending peduncles, 1-2 in. long, mixed with 
persistent lanceolate very hairy foliaceous bracts, reaching 1} in. long. 
Sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, apex acuminate, the outermig 
nearly 8 lin. long by 2} lin. broad, the innermost 6 lin. long by 13 
lin. broad, densely covered on the back with long yellowish hairs. Corolla 
campanulate-funnel-shaped, 1-1} in. long, and about as broad, tube and 
throat deep red-purple, limb yellow, silky outside. Fruit and seeds not 
seen.—Hallier f.in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 132; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 346. Convolvulus echioides, Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. Ser. 1. 
No. 351. Argyreia ? abyssinica, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 332; A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 63. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Mount Scholoda, Schimper, 351 ! Amogai, 6800 ft.» 
Schimper, 371! near Tchelatchekenneh, on the River Tacazze, Quartin-Dillon. 
Shireh, Quartin-Dillen, 64! 
47. I, Atherstonei, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 58. A shrubby 
perennial. Stem trailing, angular, densely covered with short stiffieh 
tawny spreading hairs. Leaves ovate, entire, 13—2 in. long by about 14 
in. broad, apex emarginate, base truncate or shallowly retuse ; surfaces 
and margins bearing a dense tawny tomentum ; veins conspicuous on the 
lower face ; petiole barely 6 lin.long. Peduncles hairy like the stem and 
petiole, 1} in. long, bearing a dense few-flowered cyme, which may be re- 
duced to a solitary flower. Bracts lanceolate, subacute, about 6 lin. long, 
tomentose like the leaves and sepals. Calyx 9-10 lin. long, outer sepals 
ovate, acute, inner narrower. Corolla purplish 2} in. long ; midpetaline 
areas pilose. Fruit and seed unknown. 
: : Bry eT 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa, lat. 23°, Chapman & Baines - 
Also in Bechuanaland and the Transvaal. 
48. I, amoena, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 365. Annual. Stems 
twining, densely clothed with fine soft spreading golden-yellow hairs, 
associated in the younger parts as also in the petiole and peduncle 
with short adpressed white hairs. Leaves entire, shallowly cordate, 
ovate, acute, 1}-3}$ in, long, 3-2 in. broad, green and slightly hairy 
above, densely clothed with long adpressed whitish silky hairs beneath, 
and on the veins and margin with longer yellow hairs; petiole 3-3 1D. 
long, densely hairy like the young shoot and peduncles. Peduncles 
exceeding the petiole of the subtending leaf, but generally shorter than 
the leaf. Flowers in a densely hairy cymose head ; bracts persistent, folia- 
ceous, the outer bluntly linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6—8 lin. long; 
sometimes nearly 1} in. in the fruiting stage,clothed with adpressed white 
