Tpomea. | XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). 185 
G. Don (Convolvulus albovenius, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1116), with which it is united 
by Hallier in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii.51. It differs in its subequal sepals (in the South 
African species the inner are longer than the outer) and the broader tube of the 
darker coloured corolla ; also in the darker colour of the tomentum on the back of 
the leaf. 
116. I. Grantii, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 116, t. 80. 
Perennial. Stems rather stout, angular, obscurely pubescent. Leaves 
ovate, slightly cordate, 3-4 in. long and broad, entire or shallowly 
lobed, base subtruncate, subcoriaceous, green, glabrous, and bullate 
above, matted with white pubescence beneath, both on the raised veins 
and cross-veinlets; petiole 2-3 in. long. Peduncles short; flowers 
several in a lax cyme; pedicels about } in. long, thickening upwards, 
finely tomentose. Calyx 3} in. long; sepals suborbicular, truncate at 
the apex, covered with fine white tomentum. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
bright red-purple, 3 in. long. Fruit and seeds not seen.—Hallier f. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 151, and xxviii. 51. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Unyoro forests, Speke & Grant, 559! 
Var. palmati-pinnata, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 51. Leaves deeply pal- 
mati-pinnatifid, 7- to 9-lobed.—/Z. Emini, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 150 ; 
Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 332. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Manyonyo, Stuhlmann, 1360; Mawakota, 3900 ft., 
Brown, 154! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urambo, Hannington! Myombo; a 
day’s march from Salanda, Zrotha, 164; Gonda (Igonda), Béhm, 105a, 109: ; 
Muansa, Stuhlmann, 4603; Simiu River, Fischer, 411. 
117. I. Buchanani, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 73. Stems 
shrubby, wide-climbing, pubescent. Leaves ovate, entire, deeply cor- 
date, minutely cuspidate, reaching a length and breadth of 5-6 in., 
finely pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath ; petiole 3—6 in. long. 
Cymes laxly few-flowered ; peduncle generally stout, up to 6 in. long, 
pubescent like the stem; pedicel about }$ in. long. Flower calyx 4-5 
lin. long ; sepals orbicular, much imbricate. Corolla red, 3 in. long, 
shallowly lobed, funnel-shaped, with a broad tube widening to ? in. 
below the limb; midpetaline areas well defined, glabrescent except at 
the pubescent apex. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland, Buchanan, 319! 682! 
118. I, pringsheimiana, /endle. A climber with woody stem ; 
whole plant white-puberulous. Leaves exactly cordate, subobtuse, up 
to 4} in. long and as broad; petiole up to 3} in. long. Peduncle 
robust, up to 34 in. long; cyme dichotomous, many-flowered ; bracts 
elliptic, blunt, shortly apiculate, barely $ in. long; pedicels short, 
white tomentose like the backs of the sepals. Sepals subequal, orbi- 
cular, 4-5 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, with rapidly broadening 
tube and wide-spreading lobed limb, rose-coloured, 3 in. long and 
broad ; midpetaline areas becoming tomentose above the middle in the 
unopened corolla, otherwise glabrous. Stamens subequal ; filaments 
