Tpomea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). Las 
subacute, 3-6 in. long, sometimes narrower, sometimes hastate, or in 
the narrower leaves having a rounded or subtruncate base; petiole as 
long as or shorter than the blade. Peduncle generally short,sometimes 
1-2 in. long, 1- to few-flowered. Bracts minute, ovate, acute; pedicel 
stout, generally longer than the peduncle (up to 2 in. long). Sepals 
ovate, obtuse, generally 4-5 lin. long, thinly coriaceous, with narrow 
membranous edges, sometimes sparsely verruculose. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, bright purple, 2-3 in. long; limb spreading, up to 25 in. in 
diam. Capsule globose, 4 lin. in diam. Seeds minutely silky.— Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 738. J. reptans, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iii. 460 ; 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 349; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 115; 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 346; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 
143. 7. Clappertoni, R. Br. in Denh. & Clapp. Travels, App. 240; Choisy 
in DC, Prodr, ix. 349, excl. syn.; Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 169. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger! Perrottet, 522! Interior of Western 
Lagos, Rowland! Northern Nigeria: River Niger (Quorra), Batkie! Vogel, 126! 
small lake near Matuma, between Mouzak and Kpika, Oudney ! 
Nile Land. Gallabat: around Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2141! Abyssinia : 
Zana Lake and marshes of the River Reb, Schimper, 1449! Sanka Berr, in the 
Reb Valley, Schimper, 1456! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1450! Sudan: 
Kirreh, between Berber and Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 480; near Khartoum, 
Petherick! Kordofan, Kotschy, 80! 172! Pfund, 502! Cienkowski, 374; 
Steudner, 944! White Nile: Wod Schellai, Schweinfurth, 923! Salati, Broun ! 
Edge of Nile, Speke & Grant! Petherick ! Sabatier. Bahr-el-Jebel, Muriel, 72! 
Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2589! Somaliland: Savati, near the River 
Sigan, Riva, 1523, 1570, 1603. British East Africa: Lake Rudolf, Smith! Lake 
Dumi, “Gregory! Nyika country, near Mombassa, Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea, Lower Congo: Smith! Greshof! Dupuis, Wilwerth ; 
Boma, Dewevre, 2. Angola: Barra do Dande, Welwitsch, 6187! Pungo Andongo ; 
Hayat Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 6186! and between Lombe and Quibinda, Welwitsch, 
(aed 
_.Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delta; Luabo River, 
Kirk! British Central Africa: shores of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 394! Kirk ! 
Also through Tropical Asia to North Australia. 
Var. heterophylla, Rendle. Lower leaves very long, linear, up to 4 in. long by 
1}-4 lin. broad, base broadly cuneate, entire, the upper much broader, hastate, up 
to nearly 4 in. long, and more than 1 in. broad at the base——JZ. reptans, var. 
heterophylla, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb, Boiss. vi. 543. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland ; 
Oadonga and Uukambi, Rautanen, 184, 196. 
wood between 
36. I. stolonifera, Gmel. Syst. ii. 345. Perennial, from a stout 
tuberous root, glabrous. Stems trailing widely on the sands of the 
seashore or running just beneath the surface and sending up short 
erect leafy branches. Leaves very variable in skape, thick, rather 
fleshy, usually linear or oblong, 2-4 in. long, entire, apex rounded, 
mucronulate, sometimes emarginate, base cuneate, sometimes slightly 
cordate or auricled to hastate; petiole 1-14 in. long or less. 
Peduncles 1-3-flowered, from less than 1-3 in. long; bracts minute, 
Subulate ; pedicel generally stouter than the peduncle, 1-1} in. 
long. Sepals thinly coriaceous, 4—5 lin. long, oblong to ovate, obtuse 
