Tpomea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 159 
palmately 7—9-lobed, 14-24 in. long, 13-3} in. broad ; lobes narrewly oval, 
narrowing to the base and subacute apex, rather thinly hairy on both 
surfaces ; hairs stiffish, long, adpressed ; petiole about as long as the 
blade, hairy like the stem and peduncle. Peduncles longer than the 
petioles, bearing dense hirsute few-flowered bracteate heads. Bracts 
foliaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, dorsally hirsute, especially in the 
lower part ; the two outer the largest, up to 1 in. long, sometimes 3 lin. 
broad, generally narrower. Sepals lanceolate, hairy like the bracts, 
4-5 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple, about 14 in. long; mid- 
petaline areas bearing a few of the characteristic long stiffish hairs. 
Capsule brown, glabrous. Seeds black, shortly pubescent.—Choisy in 
DC. Prodr. ix. 363; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 239 ; 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 134; and in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 34 
(excluding subvarieties) ; var. africana, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
vi. 539 partly, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Pfund, 115! Somaliland: Berbera, Robecchi-Bric- 
chetti, 480. British East Africa: North of Mombassa, Whyte / Ribe, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1347! German East Africa: Usam- 
bara; Mkulumusi River, near Tanga, Kédssner, 17! Amboni, Holst, 2597! Usaramo ; 
Dundo, Stuhlmann, 6450; Udge, Vogel, 15! Rovuma River, Meller! Portuguese 
East Africa : Mozambique, Peters. Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1089a! 
Also in Mauritius and Tropical Asia, 
Var. longibracteata, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 512.— Bracts very long and narrow, 
linear tending to linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, strongly ciliate below the middle, 
the two outer 2 to 12 in. long, generally less than 2 lin. broad. Corolla large, more 
than 2 in. long.—Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230 (as subvar.), in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxviii, 34, J. lophantha, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 134. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Araccio, by the River Dana, Riva, 1279 ; and with- 
out precise locality, Donaldson-Smith, 376! British East Africa: Taita; Ndara 
Plain, Hildebrandt, 2420! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ugogo forest, Hannington! near 
Masinde, Holst, 3881; Usagara; Mpwapwa, 3200 ft., Stuhlmann, 233 ; and without 
precise locality, Fischer, 419. 
Var. strigosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 34 (as subvar.)—Whole plant 
More densely hirsute; stems robust, nearly 2 lin. thick, prostrate, widely creeping. 
Bracts large, hairy like the leaves, the two outer and larger oblong-spathulate, over 
1 in. long, 5 lin. broad in the upper half, the inner lanceolate. Corolla whitish-rose. 
~Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 735 (as var. africana, Hallier f.). 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; about Lopollo, in fields of maize and 
Arachis hypogea, Welwitsch, 6119! and without precise locality, Antunes, 153. 
09. I. hederacea, Jacq. Collect. i. 124; Ic. ¢. 36. Annual. 
Stems slender, hairy, twining, hairs spreading. Leaves cordate-orbi- 
cular or cordate-ovate, acute, usually shallowly 3-lobed, membranous, 
hairy, 14-5 in. wide ; petiole about as long as the blade. Peduncle 
1-5-flowered, ‘about as long as the petiole; pedicels short; bracts 
Small, linear. Calyx hairy, 3-1 in. long ; sepals lanceolate, with a long 
narrow point, lower broader portion generally long-hairy, narrower 
Upper part sparsely and short-hairy. Corolla funnel-shaped, usually 
