﻿Ijwmoea.] convolvulacej: (Baker & Wright). 49 



bracteoles 1 lin. long, ]i lin. below the calyx, lanceolate ; sepals 

 chartaceoup, ovate-lanceolate, shortly cuspidate, more or less vorru- 

 cose outside, the outer 3-4 lin. long and li lin. wide, the inner 

 6 lin. long; corolla rosy (when withered), about 14 lin. long, central 

 areas bounded by two nerves. 



South Africa : without locality, Zeyher, 1214 ! 



3. I. angustisecta (Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 245, t. 7, fig. A.) ; 

 tuber abooc 2 in. in diam. ; stem about 6 in. high ; branches some- 

 times long and trailing; leaves up to 4 in. long, palmately or almost 

 pinnately divided into 7 or fewer linear segments, very rarely almost 

 entire, rather fleshy, glabrous ; flowers solitary or few together ; 

 pedicels about 4 lin. long, sometimes bearing 1-2 small lanceolate 

 bracteoles ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 6 lin. long ; 

 corolla If in. long, l|^-2 in. in diam. ; tube rosy-purple ; limb with 

 broad purple stripes ; tilaments filiform, 6 lin. long ; anthers narrowly 

 sagittate, 2 lin. long. /. holusiana, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 

 Brandenh. xxx. 271 ; Hallier f, in Enyl. Jahrh. xviii. 147 ; var. 

 abbreviata, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 54, I. simplex, 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4206 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 146, 

 not of Thunb. 



Kalahari Region : Griqual.ind Wost ; near Kimberlej, 4000 ft., Marloth, 

 '711 ; Lower Campbell, ^Mrc/ieZi, 1819 ! west of the Vaal River, STiaw, 60 ! St. 

 Clair, Orpen,21o\ Bccliuanaland ; Kosi Yimtv'm, Bur chell, 2559! Transvaal; 

 Magalies Ber?, Burke, 105! Zeyher, 1219! near the Vaal Kirer, I^eUon,2.0S\ 

 Wonderveld, Pretoria district. Nelson, 508! Boschveld, at Kiippan, Rehmann, 

 5270! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



4. I. (Enotherae (Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 125) ; a herb 

 about 6 in. high ; stems many, ascending, pilose ; radical leaves 

 long linear, cauline oblong-linear, acute, tapering towards the base, 

 repand or with linear lobes near the base, up to 3 in. long and 3 lia. 

 wide, pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 1.} in. long, pilose; 

 peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, pilose; sepals ovate, acuminate or 

 almost aristate, 4 lin. long, 3 outer li lin. wide, inner narrower; 

 corolla purple, 1-1^ in. long and wide ; style glabrous, divided below 

 the middle ; capsule glabrous ; seeds white villous. Gonvolvulun 

 GJnothercCy Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 520. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal : BoshveM, at Kiippan, Rehmann, 5264 ! 

 Eastern Region: Natal; in "Thorns "near Mooi River, 3000 ft., Wood, 

 4490! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



5. I. argyreioides (Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 357); much- 

 branched erect low shrub, with thinly silvery leaves and young stems ; 

 leaves entire, short-petioled, ascending, linear or oblanceolate, acute, 

 narrowed to the base, 1-2 in. long, moderately firm in texture ; 

 peduncles axillary, erecto- patent, usually very short, 1-flowered, 

 rarely longer or 2-flowered; bracts minute, linear; sepals 6-9 lin. 



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