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silky hairs beneath like the leaves, and in the lower part and on the margin 
with the characteristic yellowish hairs; the inner similar but smaller. 
Sepals subequal, shorter than the bracts, linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 lin. 
long, densely clothed, especially in the upper part, with long stiffish 
yellowish hairs which project beyond the tip. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
purple-violet or milky with a purple-crimson throat, twice as long as the 
calyx (barely 2 lin. long) ; midpetaline areas bearing long stiftish hairs on 
the upper part of the limb which project in a tuft at the top of the 
lobes. Capsule small, glabrous, 2-celled. Seeds 4, with a short brown 
pubescence.—Hallier f. in Eng]. Jahrb. xviii. 133, xxvill. 31; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 734 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 199. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kordofan, Sennaar, Husson (teste Hallier f.). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Heudelot, 146! Gambia: Ingram! Park! 
Gold Coast: Krepe Plains, Johnson, 544! Cape Coast Castle, Brass! Lagos, 
Rowland! Northern Nigeria: confluence of the Niger and Benue (Chadda) Rivers, 
Barter ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 66. Boma, Dupuis ; 
and without precise locality, Smith! Cabra! Angola: Ambriz, at Quizembo, 
Welwitsch, 6197! Cazengo; River Luinha, on the way up to Mount Muxaulo, 
Welwitsch, 6198! Golungo Alto; Bango and Canaulo, Welwitsch,6199! Pungo 
Andongo, Welwitsch, 6200 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mtowa, Descamps. Central Congo: 
Ukoti, Wilwerth. Manganga, Demeuse ; between Nyangwe and Kimbundo, Pogge; 
989 ; Bolama, Pogge, 1186. 
49. I. velutipes, Welw. ea Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 175. 
Perennial. Stems climbing, the barren shoots covered with a thick 
pale straw-coloured tomentum, the flowering almost glabrous. Leaves 
long-petioled, cordate-ovate, acuminate, entire, 4-6 in. long and nearly 
as broad, rather smaller on the flowering branches, those of the barren 
shoots more or less thickly tomentose on both sides, those of the flower- 
ing shoots only slightly hairy on the veins. Peduncles robust, longer 
than the leaves ; flowers subcapitate ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, the 
outer largest, 3-1 in. long, thinly shortly hairy on the back, margin 
glandular and shortly ciliate. Sepals similar in shape to the bracts, 
rather more pilose, 5 lin. long. Corolla infundibuliform-campanulate, 
fugacious, 14 in. long, rose-red on the outside, inside (especially in the 
lower half) a deep shining blood-purple. Capsule globose, thin-walled, 
hairy, about 3 lin. in diam., 4-valved. Seeds shortly hispid, hairs 
brown.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 735. J. Verdickii, De Wild. 
Etudes Fl. Katanga, 113, t. 3, figs. 9-16. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; Zengas do Queta and Queta 
Mountains, Welwitsch, 6142! 6226! 6227! 6228! 
50. I. cheetocaulos, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 133. Stems 
long, climbing, clothed with spreading golden-yellow bristly hairs. 
Leaves suborbicular, long-petioled, cordate, acuminate, angled, 34 in. 
long and about 3 in. broad, densely strigose and yellowish-green above, 
pallid and less hairy beneath ; petiole up to 4 in. long. Flowers in 
