Tpomcea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 179 
Bagshawe, 15! British East Africa: Athi plains at Lanjoro, Gregory! Pospi- 
chel; between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte? 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: by the Congo, Smith! Stanley Pool, 
Hens, B, 82! Malela, Dewevre, 159. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaua, 
442! Biittner, 382. Princes Island, Welwitsch, 6208! St. Thomas Island, Moller, 
64. Angola: Loanda: Gossweiler, 337! Icolo e Bengo, Welwitsch, 6205! 
Libongo; by the River Lefune, Welwitsch, 6206! Golungo Alto; near Sange, 
Welwitsch, 6207! Mossamedes; by tne River Bero, Welwitsch, 6117! German 
South-west Africa: Damaraland, Hex! Grootfontein, Schinz, 21! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Nyangwe, Dewevre, 1045. Coquilhat- 
ville, Laurent ; Bolobo, Biittner, 383; Lualuba River, Pogge, 1233, 1243. Mtowa, 
Descamps. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Holst, 566, 3127; 
Karagwe, Stuhlmann, 1732, 1747. Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delta, Scott ! 
Rio de Sena, Peters. Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 353! British Central Africa: Nyasa- 
land ; Fort Hill and Monkey Bay, Whyte! Shire Valley, Kirk! Buchanan! 
Also in Egypt, and South Africa, and widely spread in the tropics of both 
hemispheres. 
Var. indica, Rendle. Branches slender filiform. Peduncle short, usually 
1-tlowered ; flowers small; calyx 23 lin. long; corolla barely exceeding 1 in. long. 
—I. eairica, var. indica, Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 231. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: between Gerlobrus and Hammar; and without 
precise locality, Wiss FE. Cole, in Berlin Herbarium. 
100. I. stellaris, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 73. Perennial, 
glabrous. Stems trailing widely, with long internodes. Leaves orbi- 
cular in general outline, 2-3 in. long and broad, palmately cut to the 
base into 7 entire narrowly linear-lanceolate segments, 14-3 lin. broad 
at the middle, the central ones quite entire, the two outer usually 
forked. Peduncle 2-3 in. long; cyme dense, many-flowered ; pedicels 
short. Sepals glabrous, ovate, shortly acute, 3 lin. long. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, bright red-purple, 14 in. long. Fruit and seeds not 
seen. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: by the Rovuma River, Kirk / 
101. I, dasysperma, Jacy. Hclog. i. 132, ¢. 89. Anannual glabrous 
herb. Stems slender, climbing, 3 ft. or more in length. Leaves up to 
nearly 3in. broad, doubly tripartite; ultimate segments linear-lanceo- 
late, acute; petioles nearly as long as the blade. Peduncle shorter 
than the petiole, 1—3-flowered ; bracts minute; pedicels thicker than 
the peduncle, clavate. Calyx 4 lin. long; sepals coriaceous, elliptic- 
ovate, obtuse, three outer broader, shorter, gibbous and tuberculate at 
the base. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2 in. long; tube cylindrical, violet ; 
limb broadly spreading, bluntly 5-lobed, sulphur-yellow. Capsule 
globose, 2-celled; seeds 4, orange-coloured, covered with silky tomen- 
tum.—Choisy in:DC. Prodr. ix. 386; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 
148. /. tuberculata, Bot. Reg. t. 86. Calonyction diversifolium, 
var. sulfureum, E. Morr. in Belg. Hort. 1857, 225 with fig., and Fl. 
Serres, 2 sér. iii. 67, t. 1328. C. trichospermum, var. diversifolium, 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 346. 
