162 XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). | [pomeea. 
Abyss. ii. 68; Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 513; Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. 
Aethiop. 95; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 345; Hallier f. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. 136; Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 225. J. 
calophylla, Fenzl in Kotschy, Pl. Nub. no. 93, and in Flora, 1844, 312. 
I. arachnosperma, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. 588. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Roger! Gambia, Jagram! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Berber, Kotschy, 324; Sennar, Husson. Kordofan, 
Kotschy, 93! 417! Pfund, 357, 507. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 939! East of 
Amba-Tokhan, 1300 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 605! Samhar, Ragazzi, 295, Assaorta 
Terracciano & Pappi, 16; Zaga-Tata, Pappi, 2892; Tata-Farras, Pappi, 2955; 
Ginda, Ragazzi, 137; Damas Valley, Pappi, 4130; Aidereso Torrent, Pappi, 4282 ; 
Ambatocam, Pappi, 4044 ; Habab, Hildebrandt, 503 ; Shohos, Ehrenberg. —Abys- 
sinia: River Tacazze, Schimper, 1685; Schahagenne, 16000 {t., Schimper, 3620; 
und without precise locality, Schimper, 820/ Gallabat: near Matamma, Schwetn- 
furth, 2189! Upper White Nile, Harnier. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Maianga do Povo, Welwitsch, 6243! near 
Quicuxe, Welwitsch, 6244! Loanda, Gossweiler, 786! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Lupata, Kirk! Shiramba, Kirk! 
Morambala, Waller / British Central Africa: Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 
1088! Nyasaland; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Shire River, Kirk! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1409! Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft-, 
Mrs. Lugard, 223! 
64. I. pharbitiformis, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 291. Stem 
slender, climbing, pubescent. Leaves shortly petioled, cordate-ovate, 
2-3 in. long, acute, entire, green and thinly pilose above, clothed with 
a pale brown tomentum beneath; petiole 4—8 lin. long, with a double 
line of pale brownish soft spreading hairs. Cymes shortly peduncled, 
5—6-flowered ; pedicels short, over 1 in. long; bracts large, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, with white hairs on the back and glandular 
margin. Sepals equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 44 lin. long, hairy and 
glandular like the bracts. Corolla bright red, 14 in. long; limb scarcely 
lobed, 15-18 lin. in diam. Stamens short, inserted near the base of the 
corolla-tube. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: near Lake Moero, Carson, 41! 
65. I. magnusiana, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 
xxx. 272. Stems slender, twining, thinly clothed with adpressed 
whitish hairs. Leaves orbicular in general outline, 14 in. in diaw., 
green and slightly pubescent above, clothed with white tomentum 
beneath (veins brownish), cut down to the base into 5—7 oblong 
lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, minutely cuspidate segments ; petiole 
1-1} in. long. Flowers 1—2 on a long slender peduncle, longer than 
the leaf and hairy like the stem; bracts 2 lin. long ; pedicels very 
short. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, barely 6 lin. long, densely 
covered with short hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped, reddish, 6 lin. long: 
Capsule globose, 4 lin.in diam. Seeds covered witha white pubescence. 
-—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 135, 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland; Oshiheke, Schin=, 
752! and without precise lovality, Baines / 
