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Tpoma. | XC, CONVOLVULACE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 173 
times cordate at the base; petiole generally shorter than the leaf. 
Peduncles exceeding the petioles, 2-5 in. long, bearing a lax few- 
flowered cyme; bracts minute, ovate-cuspidate ; pedicels often an inch 
or more long. Sepals coriaceous, ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, minutely 
cuspidate, glabrous, 4—5 lin. long, the outer generaily shorter than the 
inner. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, red-purple, 2 in. long. Capsule 
ovoid, glabrons, 9 lin. long, 4-valved. Seeds dark brown, villous, the size 
of a large pea.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 739. J. Pes-Capre, 
Roth, Nov. Sp. Pl. 109; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 349; Franchet, Sert. 
Somal. 41; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 145, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
v. 876, and in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 98 (var. emarginata) ; 
Dammer in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 332 (incl. forma arenaria). Batatas 
maritima, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 225. Convolvulus  rotundifolius, 
Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 102. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Boivin! Roger! Wiberia, Cape Palmas, Joge/, 
44! Dinklage, 70. Gold Coast, Krause. Lagos, Millen! Mouth of the Niger, 
Barter! Cameroons: Little Batanga, Dinklage, 346; Batanga, Bates, 153 ! 
Fernando Po, Mann, 241! Vogel! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Witu, Thomas, 200! Cape Guardafui, 
Révoil. 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Moller, Quintas, 60. Lower Congo : 
Smith ! Dewevre. Mouth of the Congo, Naumann. Banana, Wilwerth, Monteiro ! 
Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 6240! Benguela, Wawra, 265, Mossamedes, Wel- 
witsch, 6125 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State : Mtowa, by Lake Tanganyika, Descamps. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1266! Stuhilwann, 102, 108, 104. 
German East Africa: Usambara; Muoa, Hols/, 3040! Portuguese Africa: Zambesi 
Delta; Kongone River, Kirk / shore near Beira, Mrs, Evelyn Cecil, 242 ! 
Also in South Africa, various African islands, and widely spread throughout the 
tropics. 
89. I. Protea, Rendle &: Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894,176. A shrub. 
Stems long, prostrate, branching, leafy, 5 ft. or more in length, surface 
rugulose and in the younger portion more or less minutely hirsute. Leaves 
generally broadly oblong to orbicular-oblong, 13-2} in. long, about 1-24 
in. broad, apex rounded or very obtuse, mucronulate, base in the larger 
leaves incipiently cordate, upper surface scabridulous to sparsely pilose, 
lower surface lighter, markedly reticulate, minutely hirsute on the veins ; 
petiole short, 6 lin. or less. Peduncles short (about as long as the 
petioles), sometimes single-flowered, generally bearing few- to many- 
flowered dichasial cymes; bracts minute, ovate; pedicels longer than 
the peduncles, stout, verruculose. Buds narrowly ovoid, pointed. 
Sepals glabrous, ovate, shortly acute, the two outer smaller, 5-6 lin. 
long, the inner 7-9 lin. long, verruculose on the back, margin especially 
of the inner ones pellucid. Corolla withered, apparently funnel- 
Shaped, exceeding 1 in. Fruit unknown.—Hiern in Cat. mir. FY. 
Welw. i. 739. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Quitage, Welwitsch, 6192! 
