﻿52 CONVOLVULACE^ (Baker & Wright). [Tpomoea. 



long; pollen spherical, spiny; style rather shorter than the long 

 stamens. L crassijpes, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 44, 

 fartly. 



South Africa -. without locality, Zeyher, 1210 ! 



Central Kegion: Somerset Div. ; near the Fish River, Burke! Basutoland ; 

 Cooper, 2778 ! • -d «. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! Pilgrims Rest, 

 Greenstoek ! Jeppestown Ridges, near Johannesburg, 60OO ft., Gilfillan in Herb. 

 Qalpin, 6157 ! 



Eastern Region : Natal, Gerrard, 1330 ! 



12. 1. cMoronenra (Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 132) ; annual ; 

 stems suberect or trailing, slender, very hairy ; leaves shortly 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate, entire, 1-1^ in. long, green and thinly 

 hairy above, densely clothed with long white hairs beneath ; flowers 

 few in a dense peduncled head surrounded by oblong leafy bracts ; 

 sepals lanceolate, subequal, very hairy, 3 lin. long ; corolla not 

 much longer than the calyx, about 2 lin. wide, widely tubular- 

 funnel-shaped, with a tuft of white hairs at the apex of each petal, 



Kalahari Region •. Transvaal, Holuh ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa. 



13. I. carnosa (R. Br. Prodr. 485) ; a trailing perennial herb, 

 glabrous in all its parts ; leaves distinctly petioled, very variable in 

 size and shape, oblong, linear-oblong or lanceolate, ^-2 in. long, 

 acute or obtuse, truncate, hastate or caudate at the base, usually 

 entire, rarely palmately 5-lobed ; peduncle always 1-flowered ; calyx 

 4 lin. long ; sepals oblong, cuspidate, chartaeeous, imbricate ; corolla 

 pinkish-white, funnel-shaped, l^-lf in. long; capsule globo.'^e, 

 G lin. in diam., imperfectly 4-celled ; seeds woolly. Benth. Fl. 

 Austr, iv. 420. /. littoralu, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv, 112, not of 

 Blume ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 1 44 1. sinuata, O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PL ii. 44:2. Convolvulus littoralis, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 

 227. G. stoloniferus, Cyr. PL Bar. 14, t. 5. 0. radicans, Thunb. 

 FL Cap. ed. Schult. 168. Batatas littoralis and B. acetoseefoUa, 

 Olwisy in DG. Prod. ix. 337-8. B. incurva, Benth. in Hook. Niger 

 FL 464. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! 



Shores of many parts of the tropical and subtropical regions. 



14. I. hiloba (Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 44) ; perennial ; glabrous 

 in all its parts; stems stout, wide-trailing, woody; leaves entire, 

 roundish or ovate, cuneate or truncate at the base, 3-4 in. long and 

 broad, coriaceous and rather succulent in texture, more or less 

 deeply eroarginate at the apex, with 2 rounded lobes ; peduncles few- 

 or many-flo\yered ; bracts minute, deltoid ; pedicels rather long ; 

 calyx 3-4 lin. long ; sepals oblong, cuspidate, much imbricate ; 

 corolla 2-2i in. long, funnel-shaped, dilated in the upper half, 

 bright red ; capsule coriaceous, globose, glabrous, 9 lin. in diam. ; 



