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the bud, deciduous; pedicel shorter than the peduncle and, like it, 
glabrous. Sepals subequal, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 
nearly 1 in. long and about } in. broad, bearing a minute greyish 
pubescence on the outside. Corolla white, narrowly funnel-shaped, 
from a long broad cylindrical tube, 44-5 in. long; midpetaline areas 
bearing short white tomentum when young. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe; Iringa, 5000 ft., Goetze, 655. 
lll. I. verbascoidea, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 356. An erect 
shrub, 3-5 ft. high. Stems stout, woody, terete, clothed like the 
leaves and peduncles with fulvous or whitish woolly tomentum. 
Leaves cordate-oblong, subacute or blunt with a short apiculus, entire 
or slightly sinuate, 3-6 in. long, 2-5 in. broad, densely white- or 
fulvous-tomentose beneath, especially on the raised veins, and bearing 
a gland on each side at the junction of blade and petiole; petiole stout, 
1-4 in. long. Peduncle generally 3-flowered (flowers rarely solitary), 
tomentose, shorter than the petiole (1 in. or less in length); pedicels 
short ; bracts linear-oblong to linear-oblanceolate, 7-10 lin. long, two 
lowest the largest, tomentose on the back like the sepals. Sepals 
chartaceous, elliptic, very obtuse, tomentose, equal, nearly } in. long. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, rose-purple, glabrous, 3-4 in. long; tube broad 
(3 in. in diam.); limb about 2} in. in diam. Capsule globose, glabrous, 
+ in. in diam. ; seeds brown, } in. long, densely covered with a fulvous 
wool.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 151, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 
Xxxvil. 100 (exel. syn. 7. dammarana); Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
1.741. J, Elliottii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 69. 
Nile Land. Bongo: Maschir Hills, Schweinfurth, 4013! Jur: Jur Ghattas, 
Schweinfurth, 2044! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Terrao da Sola, Welwitsch, 6111! 6114! 
between Mumpulla and Nene, Welwitsch, 6115. German South-west Africa : 
Hereroland ; Otjimbingue, Fischer, 102. 
Mozamb. Dist. Matabeleland, Elliott / 
112. I, dammarana, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 36. Stems 
erect or climbing, woody, covered like the leaves, flower-stalks, bracts, 
and sepals with white tomentum. Leaves suborbicular to ovate, 14~4 
in. long, about as broad, apex blunt, often apiculate, base rather 
shallowly cordate, thinly clothed above, more densely beneath, with 
white tomentum, veins somewhat conspicuously reticulated beneath, 
bearing a gland on each side of the insertion of blade with petiole ; 
petiole 2-14 in. long. Peduncles short, about 3 in. long, axillary, 
l1-flowered ; bracts linear-oblong to oblong, narrowing to the base, 
about 4 in. long, reaching half way up the calyx. Calyx $ in. long, 
white-tomentose ; sepals chartaceous, elliptic, very obtuse. Corolla 
purplish, broadly funnel-shaped, glabrous, 3 in, long. Stamens and 
style reaching half way up the corolla ; filaments dilated and pilose at 
the base. Fruit unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland, Een ! 
