178 XC. CONVOLVULACE& (BAKER AND RENDLE). [ Zpomea, 
Herb. Boiss. vi. 545 (var. albiflora); Baker and Wright in Dyer, FI. 
Cap. iv. li. 66. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Schimper, 321! Tacazze Valley, Steudner, 954. 
Somak Efat, Roth (87) 422! 
Var. purpurea, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb, Boiss. vi. 546, A climber with elongated 
whip-like branches, several yards long, internodes very long, up to 8 in. Corolla 
bright purple—Hallier f. in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt, xv. 412; Baker 
& Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii, 66. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland : between Ondonga 
and Unkuambi, Rautanen, 177, 179, 192, 1938. Otjimbingue, Fischer, 103, 106. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; near Kaphei, eck, 
186a ; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 218! 
Also in South Africa. 
99. I. palmata, Vorsk. Fl. Lgypt.Arab. 43. Perennial, glabrous. 
Stems slender, twining, smooth or tubercled or muricate. Leaves 
membranous, glabrous, 1-3 in. long and broad, cut nearly or quite to 
the base into generally five segments, the lowest of which are sometimes 
unequally bifid to bipartite; segments from narrowly oval to lanceo- 
late, varying from 1 lin. to nearly 1 in. in breadth, obscurely mucro- 
uulate at the obtuse or subacute apex; petiole slender, as long as the 
blade, sometimes muriculate; base apparently stipulate from the 
presence of a pair of small similarly palmatipartite axillary leaflets. 
Peduncles generally shorter than the leaves, bearing lax few- to many- 
flowered cymes. Bracts minute, ovate; pedicels about 6 lin. long. 
Sepals coriaceous, ovate to orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2—3 lin. long. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, bright red-purple, 14-2 in. long. Capsule 
globose, glabrous, 4-5 lin. in diam., 2-celled. Seeds 4, dark brow», 
shortly pubescent, angles bearded with long whitish hairs—A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 72; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 386; Benth. in Hook. 
Niger Fl. 468; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 115; Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 95; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i. 740; Baker & Wright 
in Dyer, Fi. Cap. iv. ii. 66. J. cairica, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 287; 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 148. /. senegalensis, Lam. Ill. i. 464 
I. tuberculata, Roem. & Schultes, Syst. iv. 208; Choisy, l.c. 386. J. 
vesiculosa, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar, ii. 73, t. 106 ; Choisy, l.c. 387. 1. Men- 
desii, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. 584, No. 12. Batatas senegalensis, 
(. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 261. Convolvulus cairievs, Linn. Syst. ed. 
922; Bot. Mag. t. 699; Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 96. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner! Senegal, Roger! Leprieur ! 
Gambia, Jngram! Sierra Leone, Brass! Scott-Elliot, 4082! Don! Morson u 
Smeathman ! Vogel, 48! Liberia, Whyte! Cape Coast Castle, Brass! Lagos, 
Millen! Rowland! Cameroons: Batanga, Bates, 51! and without precise locality, 
Preuss, 767! 1105! Fernando Po, Mann, 54! Vogel, 40! 236! 
Nile Land. White Nile, Schweinfurth, 1056! Muriel, 50! Petherick! 
Speke & Grant ! Babr-el-Jebel, Muriel,69! Soudan: Kordotan, Kotschy ! Pfund, 
499! Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 777. Eritrea: Mount Idet, Terracciano & Papp 
36. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1379! Petit ; Shashago district, Wellby ! Somaliland : 
banks of the River Karaule, Riva, 886, 987 ; and without precise locality, Donaldson 
Smith! Uganda: Berkeley Bay, Scott-Elliot, 7091! Lake-shore at Muso02!, 
