172 XC. CONVOLVULACE® (BAKER AND RENDLE). | pomeea. 
or minutely cuspidate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 14-2 in. long, white 
with a purple eye. Capsule globose, glabrous, 6 lin. in diam. Seeds 
shaggily tomentose.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1.733. J. carnosu, 
R. Br. Prodr. 485. J. acetoswfolia, Roem. & Schultes, Syst. iv. 246. J. 
humilis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 267; Choisy in DU. Prodr. ix. 390. 
I. ineurva, G. Don, lc. 266. J. liétoralis. Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 112; 
Hallier f. in Eng]. Jahrb. xviii. 144 and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 376. 
Batatas acetosefolia and B, litioralis, Choisy in DC, Prodr. ix. 337-8. 
B. incurva, Bauth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 464.  Convolvulus littorahs, 
Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 924.  C. inewrvus, Schumach. & Thonn. 
Beskr. Guin. Pl. 99. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Perrottet,519 partly! Sierra Leone: Don! 
Morson! Smeathman! Scott-Elliot, 4109! Gold Coast, Krause, Cape Coxs; 
Castle, Brass! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 56! Lagos, Moloney ! Southemn 
Nigeria: Nun River, Vogel, 35! Fernando Po and shore of the River Brass, Barter, 
23! 1843! Cameroons : Batanga, Dinklage, 617. 
Lower Guinea. St.Thomas Island, Don! Moller. Lower Congo: Banana, 
Monteiro! Loaugo, Soyaux, 13! Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6251! Libongy, 
Welwitsch, 6248! be:ween Cape Palmier.a and mouth of the River Cuanza, Wel- 
witsch, 6250! and near Tanga, Welwitsch, 6249! Loanda, Gossweiler, 7 u 
Widely spread on sandy sea-shores in the warmer parts of the world, 
87. I. repens, Lam. /llustr. i. 467; HEneyel. vi. 18. Perennial, 
glabrous. Stems hollow, woody, trailing very widely and binding the 
sand. Leaves firm, cordate-orbicular, glabrous, 3—6 in, in diam., obtuse, 
emarginate ; petiole 1-4 in. long. Peduncles 1-4 in. long; cymes 
few- or many-flowered ; pedicels 4-1} in. long; bracts ovate, minute. 
Calyx 6 lin. long; sepals elliptic, apex rounded, minutely mucronate ; 
two outer much shorter than the inner. Corolla funnel-shaped, bright 
red, 2~3 in. long; limb 2 in. in diam. Capsule globose, glabrous, 6 lin. 
in diam. Seeds glabrous, as large as a pea.—J/. asarifolia, Roem. & 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 251; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 466 ; Kotschy 
& Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 23, t. 10; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 119; 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 145; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. } 
738. J. Beladamboe, Roem. & Schultes, l.c. 233; C. B. Clarke in Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 209. J. sugosu, Choisy in DC. Prodr. 1x. 330. 
I, urbica, Choisy, l.c. 349. J. Vogeliit, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 
71. Convolvulus asarifolius, Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. iii. 562. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Schotte! Brunner! Heudelot, 218! Roger? 
Interior of Western Lagos, Rowland ! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 841! 
Kuka, on Lake Chad, Vogel ! Bornu, Oudney ! 
Nile Land. Sennar? Kotschy, 283! Darfur, Purdy. Jur, Heuglin! 
Banks of the Nile, Speke & Grant! Schweinfurth, 930! Muriel, 47! 
Poodeged Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto, River Delamboa, Welwitsch, 6202 ! 
6148 ! 
Also in the Cape Verde Islands, Tropical Asia, and Tropical America. 
88. I. biloba, Forsk. Fl. gypt.-Arab. 44. Perennial, glabrous. 
Stems stout, woody, hollow, creeping widely on the sands of the seashore. 
Leaves suborbicular, firm, rarely elliptic to ovate, glabrous, 2-6 in. 
long, conspicuously emarginate at the apex, cuneate, truncate or some 
