Lpomeet. | XC. CONVOLVULACEX (BAKER AND RENDLE). 193 
long, 4 lin broad, conspicuously ecrenate, bullate between the lateral 
veins, green and glabrescent above, pubescent beneath, especially on 
the veins. Cymes shortly peduncled, laxly 2--3-flowered ; peduncles stout ; 
pedicels as long as the calyx; bracts small, 3 lin. long, spathulate, 
ciliate above. Calyx glabrescent, 6—9 lin. long; sepals elliptic, much 
imbricate. Corolla funnel-shaped, red-purple, 3-4 in. long; tube 
slender ; limb 24-3 in. in diam.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 151. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Kilimanjaro Expedition ; 40-60 miles 
from the coast, Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyamwezi; near Tura (Tabora), 
4000 ft., Speke & Grant ! 
135. I. pyramidalis, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 152, A peren- 
nial undershrub. Stems woody, 5 to 12 from each rootstock, decuin- 
bent-ascending, simple, rigid, terete, clothed like the rest of the plant 
with soft grey velvety pubescence. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular- 
ovate, cordate at the base, apex shortly subacute, deflexed, grey-velvety 
on both surfaces, paler beneath, with a pair of glandular areas just 
above the petiole-insertion. Peduncles exceeding the petioles, and 
reaching over 2 in. in length, usually 3-flowered, springing in the axils 
of the upper leaves, the whole forming a terminal paniculate inflorescence ; 
bracts large, elliptic to obovate, nearly 1 in. long, membranous, pube- 
Scent, enveloping the calyx. Sepals membranous, elliptic to subobovate, 
3 in. long, subequal, silky. Corolla silky outside in bud, funnel-shaped, 
rose-red ; tube shining purple inside 1} in. long ; midpetaline areas 
densely silky.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i.741. J. megalochlamys, 
Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 72. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6113! and abont 
Lake Ivantalla, Welwitsch, 6113b ! 
136. I. Hildebrandtii, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 511. Stems woody, 
suberect, 3—4 ft. long, terete, clothed with soft grey velvety pubescence. 
Leaves cordate-ovate, subentire, 2-4 in. long and reaching 3 in, in 
width, glabrous above, clothed with grey silky pubescence below, and 
having a pair of conspicuous gland-areas above the petiole; margins 
whitish ; petiole 1-1} in. long. Peduncles strong, much longer than 
the petiole, up to 4 in. long, bearing many flowers crowded in a 
repeatedly forked cyme. Bracts membranous, the lower elliptic- 
ovate, the upper becoming elliptic-lanceolate, subobtuse, pubescent on 
the back, ? in. long or less. Sepals toughly membranous, pubescent 
outside, elliptic, obtuse to subacute, 10 lin. long, the inner slightly 
shorter, abruptly acute.’ Corolla whitish ; tube rose-coloured, broadly 
funnel-shaped up to 34 in. long; expanded limb 4 in. in diam. ; mid- 
petaline areas sparsely puberulous. Capsule globose. Seeds covered 
With brown woolly hairs.—Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vu. 233. 
I. decora, Vatke & Hildebr. in Monatschr.Ver. Garten. Preuss. Stat. XX. 
(1879) 132, t. 2, not of Meissn. Rivea decora, Hallier f. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. 156. 
Wile Land. Somaliland; near Banas, Riva, 1429. Uganda: five days’ 
-march from Mumias, Whyte! British East Africa: Taita, Hildebrandt, 2843: 
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