Ipomea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 163 
Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland: Kwebe, very common, Zugard, 119! 3400 ft., 
Mrs. Lugard, 135! 
Also in Bechuanaland. 
66. I. Lugardi, V. 4. Brown. Stem twining, pubescent with 
short and long yellowish spreading hairs intermingled. Leaves 
petiolate, palmately 5-lobed, cordate at the base, green and _ pilose 
above, densely white tomentose beneath except on the principal veins ; 
lobes 1—2 in. long, 4-13 lin. broad, lanceolate, very acute or acuminate, 
basal lobe either gibbous or produced into a short ronnded lobule at the 
base ; petiole up to 2 in. long, hairy like the stem. Peduncles } to 
2} in. long, hairy like the stem, 1-3-flowered ; pedicels very short. 
Bracts lanceolate, tapering upwards into a long linear point, 4-8 lin. 
long, with long spreading hairs like the sepals. Sepals lanceolate, 
tapering into a long linear apex, 6-8 lin. long, the outer much broader 
than the inner (up to 2 lin.), back and margin with the characteristic 
long spreading hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1-14 in. long and about 
as broad, mauve-pink ; midpetaline areas well-defined, hairy. Fruit and 
seed not seen. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., 
Mrs, Lugard, 211! Eastern Bamanguato Territory; between Henry’s Vley and 
ee Holub, 1062! northern Kalahari, desert, near T’Klakane Pits, Lugard, 
226! 
Var. parviflora, Rendle. Bracts and sepals shorter and less hairy, the forme 
not exceeding 4 lin., the latter 5 lin. long. Corolla 9 lin, long. 
Mozamb. Dist. Matabeleland, Elliott / 
67. I, Eenii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 21. Stem slender, 
climbing, clothed with whitish (or when young yellowish) hairs. Leaves 
shortly petioled, palmately tripartite; lobes lanceolate or oblong 
lanceolate, acute, the central one 1 in. long, 4 lin. broad; upper surface 
and veins beneath clothed with yellowish hairs. Peduncle 1 in. long, 
1-2-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, placed near the calyx. Sepals lanceo- 
late-acuminate, 6 lin. long, the three inner narrower than the two 
outer. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1 in.long. Filaments 3-4 lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Damaraland, Zen / 
68. I. kentrocarpa, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 70. 
Stems slender, wide climbing, pubescent, as are also the petioles and 
peduncles, striate and rugulose. Leaves cordate-ovate, entire, 1-3} in. 
long, }+23 in. broad, acuminate, apex weakly mucronate, membranous, 
glabrescent on the upper surface, lower surface paler and shortly 
pubescent, especially on the main veins; petiole as long as or shorter 
than the blade. Peduncle slender, varying very much in length, some- 
times very short, rarely exceeding the leaves, 1- to many-flowered ; 
flowers laxly corymbose; bracts and bracteoles minute, ovate to lanceo- 
late ; pedicels thickening upwards, generally about 6 lin. long, glabre- 
scent. Sepals small, subequal, ovate, obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, 
glabrous, 24-3 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, 14-1} in. long, yellow 
