﻿50 CONVOLVULACE^ (Baker & Wrigbt). [Tpomoea. 



long, subequal, lanceolate, acute, ?ilvery ; corolla bright red, broadly 

 funnel-sliaped, 2-2|^ in. long, silvery down the back of the lobes ; 

 capsule coriaceous, glabrous, globose, as long as the calyx; seeds 

 black, glabrous. Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1902, 191. J. cana, E. 

 Meye7^ in Drege, Zwei Pfianzengengr. Bncumente, 4.5, 54. Convol- 

 vulus cenofheroides, Linn.f. Sujjpl. 137. Rivea oenotheroides, Hallier 

 f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 156. 



South Africa : without locality, ZeyJier, 12C6 ! 1207 ! 



Coast Region : Albany Div. ; near Grahumstown, 2500 ft., Burhe .' Mac- 

 Oxvan, 524! Rutherford T Fort Beaufort Div.; near Fort Beanfort, Baur ! 

 Catbcart Div. ; between Kat Berg and Klipplaat Kiver, 3001-4000 ft., Brtge! 

 Qiieenstown Div.; Qamata, Baur! Tambukiland, Zeyher ! Sbiloh, 3500 ft., 

 Baur, 895 1 



Central Region : Somerset Div. ; near Somerset, BowJcer, 6 ! Graafif 

 Eeinet Div. ; monntHins near Graaff Reinet, 3000-3800 ft,, Bolus, 194 ! Bolus 

 andllacOwan Herh. Norm. Afr.-Aust.,\Z2&\ Crndock Div.; near Cradock, 

 Cooler, 1290! Colesberg Div.; near Colesber?, Shaiv ! Albert Div.; "New 

 Hantem." 4000-5000 ft., Drege! Philipstown Div. ; nearRuigte Fontein (Wash- 

 banks River), Burchell, 2733 ! 



KaIjAHab,! Region : Griqualand West; Kimberley, MarZo^?!,. Orange River 

 Colony ; near the Caledon River, Burke ! Leuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett- 

 Hamilton ! Transvaal ; Maquasi Hills, Nelson, 233 ! Magalies Berg, Burke, 

 269! 



Eastebn Region : Natal ; Klip River County, Wood, 3392 I and without 

 precise locality, Gerrard, 1327 ! 



6. I. robertsiana (Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 18) ; suffruticose; 

 stems prostrate, rather hirsute, terete ; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, 

 hairy on the margins and under surface, up to li in. long by 3 lin. 

 wide ; petiole about 1 lin. long ; peduncle 1 in. or more long, 

 densely hairy, 1-flowered ; bracteoles 2, narrowly linear, 5 lin. long ; 

 pedicels very short ; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, 9 lin. 

 long ; corolla widely funnel-shaped, glabrous, purple, 2 in. long, 

 central areas 3-nerved. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Pilgrim's Rest, Greenstock ! 



7. I. Barretti (Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1902, 190) ; an undershrub, 

 with procumbent branches and slender ascending branchlets, clothed 

 with whitish pubescence ; leaves shortly petioled, linear-oblong, 

 under 1 in. long, \\ lin. wide, obtuse, entire, glabrous on the upper 

 surface ; clothed with whitish pubescence beneath ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, nearly sessile ; bracts minute, linear ; sepals ovate, acute, 

 subequal, under 6 lin. long; corolla more than twice the length 

 of the calyx, clothed with white pubescence outside the central 

 area. 



Kalahari Region; Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, 

 Barrett-Hamilton ! 



8. I. mesenterioides (Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 544) ; a 

 herb with the habit of J. simplex, Thunb. ; stem erect, about ti in- 

 high, glabrous, slender, terete, sparingly branched at the base; 

 leaves long spathulate-cuneate, bilobed with a short reflexcd. point 



