Tpoma. | XC. CONVOLVULACEE (BAKER AND RENDLE). 189 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia; Buluwayo, Rand, 141! 
Very near J, Holubii, but distinguished by its smaller leaves, bracteoles, and 
calyx. Perhaps only a small form of that species. 
127. I. shirensis, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1474. Perennial. 
Stem woody, climbing, mottled with white tomentum. Leaves entire, 
cordate-ovate, obtuse, 2—4 in. long and broad, green and thinly pubescent 
above, matted all over with whitish tomentum beneath ; petiole 14-2 in. 
long. Flowers ina lax panicle with cymose branches on long peduncles ; 
pedicels as long as the calyx. Sepals oblong, obtuse, accrescent, at first 
tomentose, finally denuded, 4 in. long, rigid and spreading. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, lilac, hairy, ?-1 in. long. Capsule globose, densely 
tomentose, much shorter than the calyx, 1-seeded by abortion.—Rivea 
shirensis, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 157, and in Jahrb. Hamburg. 
Wissensch. Anstalt. xvi. Beih. 3, 14 (schirensis). Porana subrotundifolia, 
De Wild. Etudes FI. Katanga, 111, t. 5, figs. 8-18. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Likangala River, near 
Lake Shirwa, 2500 ft., Buchanan, 262! Shibisa (Chikwawa) to Tshinmuzo, 2000-— 
4000 ft., Kirk / 
128 I. digitata, Linn. Syst. Vat. ed. 10, ii, 924. Perennial, with 
fleshy inedible tuberous roots. Stems wide-climbing, glabrous, woody, 
hollow, Leaves shallowly or deeply palmately 3-9-lobed, 4—8 in. long 
and broad; lobes blunt or subacute or acuminate, glabrous, base 
generally shallowly cordate ; petiole long. Pedunele long ; cymes com- 
pound, several- to many-flowered. Sepals broadly oblong to suborbicular, 
obtuse, much imbricate, glabrous, }—} in. long. Corolla bright red- 
purple, campanulate-funnel-shaped, glabrous, 2-3 in. long; base darker 
inside ; expanded limb 3-4 in. in diam. Capsule glabrous, globose, 
4—5 lin. in diam.; valves membranous. Seeds 24 lin. long, covered 
with long tawny-white hairs.—Choisy in DC. Prodr, ix. 389 ; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 740. J. paniculata, R. Br. Prodr. 486 ; Ker in 
Bot. Reg. t. 62; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 149; De Wild. Etudes 
Fl. Katanga 113. J. ennealoba, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 69, t. 101; 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 388. Batatas paniculata, Choisy 1.c. 339 ; 
Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 464. Convolvulus paniculatus, Linn. Sp. PI. 
ed. 1, 156; Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 94. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ile au Chiens, near St. Mary’s, Leprieur & Perrotet, 
511! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Vogel, 96! Scott-Elliot, 4194! Gold Coast: Accra, 
Krause, 9. Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 80! Chama, Beauvois. Togo, Kling, 21; 
Warnecke, 244! Bittner, 82. Lagos: Lokaja and Abeokuta, Nigeod! and without 
precise locality, Rowland! Phillips, 30! Millen! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, 
Barter, 1267! Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 284! Batanga, Bates, 326! Yaunde, 
Zenker & Staudt, 353! and without precise locality, Preuss, 547 ! 
Nile Land. Niamniam, Nabambisso River, Schweinfurth, 3844! Bongo, 
Schweinfurth, 1289! 2214! Somaliland, Kirk ! 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Qvintas, 58. Lower Congo: Island of 
San Antonio, Smith! Banana Creek, Monfeiro! Kisantu, Tondoa, Biittner, 385 ; 
Gillet, 114; Bingila, Dupuis, Angola: San Salvador, Bittner, 384; Ambriz, 
