Tpomaa. | XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). it 
Also in South Africa, Tropical Asia, and Australia, 
Var, malvefolia, Rendle. Leaves palmately 5-lobed: lobes short, serrate, 
median one larger than the lateral.—ZJ. coptica, var. malvefolia, Hallier f. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. 147. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Pfund. 
Var. acuta, Rendle. Stems prostrate or climbing; bracts larger, palmately 
laciniate like the leaves, enveloping the calyx.—Z. coptica, Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 110; 
var. acuta, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 384; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 47. JZ, 
palmatisecta, Bojer ex Choisy. l.c. 352. 
Nile Land. British Kast Africa: Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor! 
between Mowbasa and Lamu, Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer, Hildebrandt, 992! Blackburn! Kirk! 
German East Africa; Usambara: Doda, Holst, 2976! Portuguese East Africa: 
Zambesi Delta ; Chinde, Wess! Inhambane, Peters. 
Also in India, Ceylon and Cl’na. 
97. I. pulchella, Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 115, not of Wight. Glabrous ; 
stem very slender, climbing, subterete. Leaves divided almost to the 
base of the blade into tive segments, the two lower having a small lobe on 
the outer side; segments elliptic, } to 1 in. or more in length, blunt, 
minutely apiculate ; petioles slightly longer than the blade; a pair of 
small leaves of an axillary bud simulate stipules as in J. palmata. 
Flowers solitary, axillary ; peduncles filiform, shcrter than the petiole ; 
bracteoles ovate, minute ; pedice] shorter and much thicker than the 
peduncle, clavate. Sepals thinly coriaceous, orbicular, subequal, edges 
membranous, barely 14 lin. long. Corolla rose-purple, 6 lin. long; 
limb short, entire, spreading abruptly from a broad somewhat inflated 
tube. Capsule about 4 lin. in diam.; seeds pubescent with longer hairs 
on the edges.—Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 386; Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. vii. 95,and in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 48, incl. var. arachnosperma. 
/. palmata, Kotschy in Herb. Un. Itin. 1841, No. 177, not of Forsk. 
1. radicans, Bert. ex Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 387; Hallier f. in Engl. 
Jahrb, xviii. 148. 
Nile Land. Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 177 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: on the River Coroca above Gargonto do Diabc, 
1000 ft. alt., Baum, 11! 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa: Ugogo, Muhalala, Stuhlmann, 396. 
British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1083 ! 
Also in Tropical America. 
98. I. quinquefolia, Hochst. ex Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 
147. Annual. Stems very short, trailing or ascending, glabrous, some- 
times papillose. Leaves digitate, membranous, glabrous ; leaflets 5, 
oblong-lanceolate, 1-14 in. long, narrowed from the middle to the base 
and apex; petiole as long as or longer than the blade, sometimes 
muriculate. Flowers single, shortly peduncled; bracts minute, sub- 
ulate. Sepals oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous, subequal, the two outer 
slightly shorter, 21 lin. long. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, white, 
fugacious ; shortly lobed, about 1 in. long. Capsule globose, glabrous, 
about 3 lin.in diam. Seeds dark brown, velvety.—Hallier f. in Bull 
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