Tpomeea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 161 
61. I. ficifolia, var. laxiflora, /allier f. in Sitzungsber. 
Akad. Wiss. Wien. Math. Naturwiss. Cl. evii. 48. Stem climbing, 
clothed with spreading golden hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, 3-lobed, 
reaching 3-34 in. long, nearly as broad, with longish adpressed hairs 
above and white tomentum beneath, except on the veins which 
bear longer adpressed yellow hairs; petiole slender, shorter or some- 
times longer than the blade, hairy like the stem and_ peduncles. 
Cymes laxly many-flowered, much-branched, long-peduncled ; bracts 
small, subulate, hairy. Sepals equal, linear-lanceolate, 8-4 lin. long, 
clothed with golden hairs. Corolla rose-red, 2 in. in diam. Capsule 
globose, 4 lin. in diam. Seeds pilose.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxvill. 35, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230 (subvar. auriculata). 
I. engleriana, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 333. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: in cold dense woods at Dadacci Uteci, Riva, 1208. 
British East Africa: Liani, 400 ft., Kdssner, 338 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, 2500 ft- 
Hoist, 8721! Bote (Buiti ?) Adssner, 88! Usaramo; Ukwere, Stuhlmann, 106. 
62. I. Kilimandschari, Yammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 332. 
Stem slender, climbing, hairy, hairs yellowish, spreading. Leaves long- 
petioled, cordate-ovate, 2-4 in. long and nearly as broad, acute or 
shortly acuminate, sometimes subobtuse and mucronate, crenate, 
clothed with adpressed deciduous yellow hairs above and with 
white floccose tomentum beneath; petiole slender, about as long as the 
leaf. Peduncle up to 3 in. long; flowers in small congested cymes ; 
bracts a little shorter than the sepals, lanceolate, bearing on the back 
stiftish yellow hairs, flanks and margin glandular. Sepals lanceolate- 
acuminate,.under 6 lin. long, hairy and glandular like the bracts. 
Corolla 14 in. long. Buds hairy at the tip—Rendle in Journ. Bot. 
1901, 21. J. fieifolia, var. laxiflora, subvar. parviflora, Hallier f. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 35. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5000 ft., 
Volkens, 577! above Morang (Marangu), Taylor ! 
63. pilosa, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 289. Perennial. Stems 
slender twining, minutely hirsute with rather long spreading yellowish- 
white hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, membranous, 2—4 in. long 
and broad, palmately trilobed, green and thinly hairy above, covered 
with thin white tomentum beneath ; petiole as long as or longer than 
the leaf, slender, hairy like the stems and peduncles. Peduncles 
slender, 1-2 in. long; flowers laxly cymose ; pedicels short; bracts 
small, shorter than the sepals, persistent, ovate-acuminate with auricled 
base, minutely hirsute with the characteristic yellow hairs and glandular 
margins. Calyx hairy and glandular like the bracts; sepals ovate- 
acuminate, 5-7 lin. long, Corolla purplish-white, funnel-shaped, | in. 
long, the expanded limb under 1 in. in diam. Capsule globose, fragile, 
hairy; seeds glabrous.—Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 363; Wight, Ic. t. 
337; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 735. J. dichroa, Hochst. in 
ig? Schimp. Abyss. ii. no, 820; Choisy, le. 364; A. Rich. Tent. FI. 
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