Tpomeea. | XC, CONVOLVULACE& (BAKER AND RENDLE). 157 
long. Flowers small, subsessile in long-peduncled axillary heads, 
clothed with a whitish tomentum ; peduncles strong, often bent, up to 
4 in. long; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, acute, margin white, densely 
dotted with black glands; the two outer bracts 5 lin. long by 14 lin. 
broad. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, subequal like the bracts but a little 
smaller, about 3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
8 lin. long, clothed with white woolly hairs outside below the lobes. 
Capsule globose, densely pubescent. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker, 651. 
Very nearly allied to J. Wightii and J. elythrocephala, but easily distinguished 
by the smaller bracts, sepals, and corolla. Also characterised by the dense black 
glandular dots on the bracts and sepals. 
D4. I. elythrocephala, J/iallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 134. Stems 
slender, widely climbing, more or less densely covered, especially on the 
younger parts, with long spreading tawny hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, 
shallowly palmately 3—5-lobed, 14-3 in. long and broad, green and 
thinly hairy above, matted with white tomentum beneath, with short 
adpressed tawny hairs marking out the veins; end lobe deltoid; side 
ones rounded below, more or less coarsely dentate above; petiole as 
long as the blade. Peduncle generally about as long as the subtending 
leaf; flowers in a dense head; bracts small, linear-oblong to lan- 
ceolate, obtuse, persistent, the two lowest and largest about 6 lin. long,. 
mottled like the leaves with white tomentum beneath, margin and 
lower portion of back bearing the characteristic yellow-brown stiffish 
hairs; sepals linear-lanceolate, subacute, barely 6 lin: long, hairy like 
the bracts; corolla funnel-shaped, 2? in. long, 14-2 in. in diam. at the 
throat; midpetaline areas with short soft woolly hairs; fruit and 
seeds not seen.—Hallier f. in Comptes-Rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 
81 (elytrocephala), and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 94; Henriq. in 
Bull. Soc. Brot. xvi. 68 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 735. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis. Angola: Golungo Alto, 
a Welwitsch, 6184! near Ndelle, Welwitsch, 6185! Canaula, Welwitsch, 
South Central. Congo Free State: by the Lomami River, Pogge, 1142! 
Angola: Lunda ; between the River Luachim and Quikimbo, Marques, 329. 
59. I. Wightii, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 364. Perennial. Stems 
slender, twining, clothed with dense short brownish hairs. Leaves cor- 
date-ovate, more or less shallowly 3-lobed, 2-4 in. long and broad, green 
and more or less hairy above, hairs short, adpressed, clothed with white 
tomentum beneath, the veins marked out with stiffish yellowish adpressed 
hairs; side lobes rounded ; end lobe deltoid, all entire; petiole hairy, 
1-2 lin. long. Peduncle 1-3 in. long, hairy like the stem; flowers in a 
dense head ; bracts lanceolate, 6 lin. long, white beneath, back minutely 
hirsute with short yellowish hairs, sides and margins glandular hairy. 
Calyx hairy like the bracts. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 6 lin. long. 
Corolla rose-red, funnel-shaped, 1-1} in. long ; throat 1-1} in. in diam. 
Capsule small, globose, fragile, pubescent. Seeds glabrous, thinly white- 
