160 XC. CONVOLVULACE® (BAKER AND RENDLE). | [ponwea. 
lilac, 2-3 in. long; limb 2 in. in diam. Capsule small, subglobose, 
3-celled. Seeds 6, smooth. — Jpomea Nil, Roth, Cat. Bot. i. 36; 
Hallier f.in Evgl. Jahrb. xviii. 136. J. scabra, Forsk. Pl. Aigypt.- 
Arab. 44. J. githaginea, Hochst. in herb. un. itin. 1842, no, 784. 
Convolvulus Nil, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 219; Bet. Mag. t. 188. Pharbitis 
hederacea, Choisy in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genév. vi. 440 (Conv. Or. 58), 
and in DC. Prodr. ix. 344. P. Nil, Choisy lc. 343; Capua in Ann. 
Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 229. P. hispida, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
65, not of Choisy; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 246. P. purpurea, 
Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 96 excl. syn. LP. githaginea, 
Hochst. in herb. un. itin. 1844, no. 1446. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Coast Castle, Brass! Lagos, Rowland! Punch, 39! 
Northern Nigeria: Nupe; Jeba, Barter! Quorra (Niger), Vogel, 125! Fernando 
Po, Buchholz. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Lalamba Mountain, Stewdner, 938! Keren, Steudner, 
946.  Assaorta, Pappi, 3012. Gallabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, 513! 
2165! 2157. Abyssinia: by the River Tacazze, Schimper, 784! Mai Mezano 
Valley, Schimper, 1446! Schahagenne, 55C€0 ft., Schimper (Schweinfurth ex 
Hallier), 365! Zana Lake, 6200 ft., Schimper; Gageros, 4200 ft., Schimper, 
65, 2176! Wady Woina, Rohlfs & Stecker. Kordofan, Kotschy, 46! Cien- 
kowsky, 366. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet, 1021; near Lemfu, 
Butaye. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bena Moulengere, Dewévre, 1011. 
Widely spread throughout the tropics. 
Var. inequalis, Baker & Rendle.—Outer sepals ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate 
or subobtuse, the inner narrower acuminate.—S. githaginea, var. inequalis, Beck in 
Paulitschke, Harar, 456. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Mount Hakim, near Harar, Hardegger Paulit- 
schke. 
60. I. erioleuca, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii.33. A climbing 
tomentose herb; branches woody, with two rows of long white hairs, 
almost as in J. velutipes. Leaves broadly cordate, acuminate, 24-5 in. 
long, 2-84 in. broad, glabrous on the upper surface, covered with 
white tomentum beneath, palmately veined at the base, penninerved 
above, nerves rather prominent on the lower face ; petiole }—14 in. long, 
thinly hoary tomentose beneath, with spreading yellowish stiffish hairs 
above. Peduncles axillary, strong, straight, thinly hoary tomentos®, 
2—3 in. long, bearing a terminal flower and a pair of shortened cincinni; 
bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, about 3 lin. long and 1} 
lin. wide at the auricled subamplexicaul base, sparsely hoary puberu- 
lous beneath; bracteoles similar but successively smaller, spreading ; 
flowers obviously pedicelled. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, 
subequal, the outer 13-2 lin. long, hoary puberulous especially in 
the middle line. Corolla probably purple, funnel-shaped, 1} in. long, 
about 1 in, broad. 
South Central. Angola: Lunda ; in shady valleys near the River ULuachin, 
Marques, 329. 
