186 XC. CONVOLVULACE& (BAKER AND RENDLE). [ Jpomea. 
dilated and densely hairy, 1} in. long at the base. Fruit and seeds 
not seen.—Livea pringsheimiana, Dammer in Engl. Pa. Ost-Afe. C. 
334, 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Usambara: Bulua, Gonja (Gonya) 
Mountain, 5000 ft., Holst, 4337 ! 
119. I. citrina, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 547. An erect 
shrub. Young branches slender (scarcely 1 lin. thick), terete, clothed 
with grey tomentum, leafy and flowering above, the older stouter and 
glabrous, with an irregularly rugose cortex. Leaves cordate-orbicular, 
1} in. long and nearly as broad, obtuse or subemarginate, mucronate, 
entire, clothed with yellowish silky hairs above and with whitish-grey 
tomentum beneath ; petiole slender, terete, tomentose like the peduncle, 
1-13 in. long. Flowers in pairs on axillary peduncles, 1} in. long; 
bracts 2, large, persistent, white tomentose on the outside, broadly 
orbicular-spathulate, shortly clawed, ? in. long and broad, forming an 
involucre around the calyces, 3 in. broad. Sepals resembling the 
bracts, broadly orbicular, tomentose, the outermost above } in. long, 
the inner gradually smaller. Corolla pale yellow, nearly 14 in. long, 
broadly tubular funnel-shaped; midpetaline bands plainly limited, 
finely pilose on the outside. Stamens unequal, the two longer, like the 
style, half as long as the corolla. Ovary long, fusiform, glabrous. 
Wile Land. Somaliland; Laku, Keller, 235. 
120. I. brasseuriana, De Wild. Ktudes Fl. Katanga, 115. Stem 
climbing, subcylindrical, greyish, densely clothed with spreading hairs. 
Leaves broadly oval or trilobed, 1 to 24 in. long, 14 to 2 in. broad, base 
cordate, densely hairy on both surfaces, covering denser and silvery oD 
the lower surface ; petiole about } in. long, densely hairy. Peduncles 
14-21 in. long, hairy; bracts small, caducous; flowers 2-4 ; pedicel 
hairy, $-} in. long. Sepals oval, acute, about 4 in. long, densely 
hairy outside, margins ciliate. Corolla ample, purple, 1} in. long- 
Ovary glabrous. 
South Central. Congo Free State: near Lake Moero, Verdick. 
“ Recalls Z. Grantii, but differs in the smaller leaves, the longer-stalked inflores- 
cence, the flowers springing from the same point, not arranged in a dichotomy, the 
pointed sepals and the longer and denser hairy covering.” 
121. I.shirambensis, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 72. Perennial, 
glabrous. Stems stout, woody, rugulose, climbing ; final branchlets 
slender, Leaves orbicular, long, acuminate, base shallowly retuse, more 
or less pubescent on both surfaces, 14-1} in. long, about 1} in. broad. 
Cymes laxly few- to many-flowered, sessile or shortly peduncled ; pedicels 
slender, flexuose, $—? in. long; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, ? lin. 
long; sepals coriaceous, ovate, cuspidate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1} in. 
long, glabrous outside, white, with a bright lilac throat. Capsule 
glabrous. Seeds with long spreading tawny hairs.—J. schirambenst, 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 49. 
