184 XC. CONVOLVULACES (BAKER AND RENDLE). | Jpomea. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia; Buluwayo, Rand, 273! 
«4 handsome plant. Climbs over trees of 20 ft. or so in height.”—R. F. Rand. 
Perhaps not distinct from J. verbascoidea, Choisy. 
113. I. Bakeri, Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 85. An erect under- 
shrub; branchlets slender, terete, woody, clothed with white pubes- 
cence. Leaves distinctly petioled, elliptic-oblong, with undulate 
margin, broadly rounded or subtruncate at the base, 24-3} in. long, 
moderately firm, green and glabrous above, coated beneath with per- 
sistent short white tomentum. Flowers solitary on very short 
peduncles. Calyx softly tomentose, } in. long ; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 
much imbricated. Corolla pallid, nearly 3 in. long, glabrous outside ; 
lobes very small.—/. discolor, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 69, not of 
G. Don. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Urunga; Abercorn, Carson, 18! 
114. I. lukafuensis, De Wild. Etudes Fl, Katanga, 118, t. 2, figs. 
1-10. A climber; stem subterete, hairy. Leaves broadly oval, 
obtuse, apex apiculate or emarginate, base more or less -cordate, 2} to 
nearly 34 in. long, and 24 in. broad, clothed with short hairs on the 
upper surface, white tomentose on the lower, on which the nervation 1s 
rather prominent ; petiole1}—2} in. long, shortly hairy like the peduncle. 
Peduncle shorter than the leaf, few- (up to 3-) flowered, bearing at the 
summit two large opposite bracts, which completely surround the flower- 
bud in the young state; bracts at the base of the pedicels obovate, 
obtuse, 1 in. long, tomentose on the outside, upper bracts about 7 iin. 
long and half as broad, resembling the lower in shape and indumentum ; 
pedicels hairy when young, up to about 4} in. long. Sepals subeyual, 
coriaceous with scarious margin, about 5 lin. long and 4 broad, shortly 
pubescent on the back when young, rapidly becoming glabrous. 
Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 34 in. long, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 
ovoid, 2-celled at the base, 4-celled at the summit. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Katanga; Lukafu, Verdick, 342. 
Appareatly near Z, Gerrardi and I. Grantii, but distinguished by the blunt leaves, 
and the large bracts, which completely envelop the buds when young. 
115. I. Wakefieldii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 73. Perennial. 
Stems slender, woody, finely pubescent. Leaves entire, broadly 
elliptic with subcordate base to subovately orbicular with a more pro 
nounced base, finally 5-6 in. long ; throat cuspidate or emarginate, at 
first reticulate beneath with lines of whitish tomentum on the main 
veins and cross veinlets, finally green and finely pubescent all over 
petiole 14-3 in. long. Peduncles short; flowers few in a lax racemose 
cyme; bracts obovate, ? in. long, deciduous. Calyx } in. long, thinly 
covered with dull tawny tomentum; sepals subequal, broadly oblong, 
very obtuse, much imbricate. Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, By WD. 
long. Fruit and seeds not seen. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Nyika country near Mombasa, Wakefield! 
Very near the Cape J. Gerrardi, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5651, and J. alboveni4, 
