158 XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). | Zpomeea. 
spotted.— Wight, Ic. t. 1364; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
Bot. 239; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 133 and xxviii. 32. J. 
arachnoidea, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 228 ; Choisy in DC. Pro@r. ix. 364. 
Convolvulus Wightiit, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. t. 171. 
Wile Land. Uganda, 4000-7500 ft.; Kavirondo: Nandi and neighbourhood, 
Whyte! Eldama Ravine and Mau, Whyte! Busoga Villages, Whyte! second and 
third days’ march from Mumias, Whyte! Near Chulema, Bagshawe, 362! British 
East Africa: Waturuma (Duruma), Kassner, 142! Nairobi, Percival ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer! German East Africa: Ugweno Mountain, 
near Kilimanjaro, Volkens, 507!  Usambara, Holst, 333. Portuguese Kast Africa: 
Zambesi, Stewart! Shupanga, Kirk! Rios de Sena, Peters! British Central 
Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, (1088 ?)! Nyasaland; Mount 
Chiradzulu, Whyte! Rhodesia: Bulawayo, Rand, 555! 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar, Natal, and Tropical Asia. 
56. I. garckeana, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 512. Stems terete, 
clothed on the upper part with adpressed hairs. Leaves cordate, 3- 
lobed, up to 14 in. long and 13 in. broad, green and adpressed 
hairy above, clothed with white tomentum beneath; lateral lobes 
obtuse; terminal emarginate and mucronate, all crenate; petiole up to 
21 in. long. Peduncle sparsely pilose,7 in. long. Flowers about six in 
a dense head ; bracts linear, from a broader base, subacute, long-hairy 
like the sepals. Sepals unequal, linear-subulate, subacute, above 8 lin. 
long. Corolla funnel-shaped, white with a purple throat, nearly an inch 
long and broad. Fruit and seeds unknown.—Hallier f.in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. 134. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Duruma; Tchamtei, Hildebrandt, 2344. 
57. I. whyteana, fendle. Stem rather woody, long prostrate, 
tinged with red, shortly strigose, hairs whitish or with a faint yellow 
tinge. Leaves uniform in outline, deeply trilobed, about 6 lin. 
long by 1 in. or a little more broad, margin crenate, end lobe with 
retuse and mucronulate margin, «nd rounded sides, lateral lobes sub- 
orbicular ; upper surface rather densely strigose, lower surface covered 
with a dense white tomentum except on the veins which stand out as 
brown lines bearing short yellowish white hairs; petiole slender, 1 i». 
long or less, hairy like the stem and peduncles. Peduncles axillary, longer 
than the leaves, about 2 in. long, bearing small dense hairy capituliform 
cymes, 6-8 lin. in diam. Bracts lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, the 
outer about 3 lin. long, the back and margin bearing long whitish oF 
yellowish-white hairs. Sepals lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
herbaceous with margins colourless, back and margins densely hairy 
like the bracts, 4 lin. long, the outermost and broadest a little over 
1 in. broad. Corolla withered, apparently about 1 in. long, funnel- 
shaped, purple. Style with a large swollen base forming a cap on the 
ovary ; ovary 2-celled; ovules 4. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: between Mombassa and Lamu, Whyte ! 
58. I. Pes-tigridis, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 162. Annual. Stems 
slender, twining, hirsute with long spreading yellowish hairs. Leaves 
