﻿Ij)omcea.'] convolvulace^ (Baker & Wright). 53 



seeds hairy. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 212. I. Pes-caprce, Both, 

 Nov. Sj). 109; Ghoisy in DC. Prod. ix. M9, partly ; Hallier f. in 

 Migl. Jahrh. xviii. 145 ; Sinclair, Fl. Hawaii, t. 16. J. maritima, 

 -B. Br. Prodr. 486; Drege, Zwei Pflanzenyeogr. Documenie, 154; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 319. Convolvulus Pes-caprce mid C. hrasilianus, Linn. 

 Sp. PL ed. 2, 226. 



Coast Region : Knysna Div. ; Plettenberg Bay, Burchell, 5346 ! Porb 

 Elizabeth Dir. ; on the downs aloiifj the Krakakamina Forest and by Cape Recife, 

 Zeyher, 561 ! Bathurst Div. ; sand-hills near the sea. Miss Bovaker ! 



Eastern Region: Pondoland; between Umtsikaba and Umtentu Rivers, 

 Brege ! sliore near Port St. John, 10 ft., Galpin, 3489 ! Natal ; near Durban, 

 TFo"o(f,"-899 ! Grant! 



Also on the shores of all warm regions. 



15. I. pileata (Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 94) ; -whole plant 

 villous ; stem twining ; leaves cordate, acute, entire, about 2 in. long 

 and wide ; petiole about as long as the blade ; peduncles solitary, 

 axillary ; bracts united into a cymbiform involucre surrounding 6-8 

 flowers ; sepals unequal, 2 outer ovate, 3 inner linear ; corolla 

 tubular-funnel-shaped, purple; tube narrow; mouth 1{- in, in 

 diam. ; filaments dilated at and ciliate on each side of the base ; 

 capsule glabrous. Ghoisy in DC. Prod. ix. 365 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1363 ; 

 G. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 203. I. involucrata, 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 135, partly, not of Beauv. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; hill sides, among scrub, near Barberton, 

 3000 ft., Galpin, 882 ! 



Also in India and Tropical Africa. 



16. I. Atherstonei (Baker) ; shrubby, perennial : stems moderately 

 stout, terete, trailing, densely clothed with short spreading grey 

 bristly hairs ; leaves ovate, entire, obtuse with a small cusp, shallowly 

 cordate at the base, 2-3 in. long, firm in texture, densely ma^ed on 

 both sides with persistent whitish shaggy tomentum ; petiole about 

 6 lin. long; flowers 3-4 together ia capitate cymes on shaggy 

 peduncles, sometimes nearly as long as the leaver ; bracts ovate, 

 acute, persistent, nearly or quite as long as the calyx ; calyx shaggy, 

 9 lin. long; outer sepals oblong-lanceolate, inner linear; corolla 

 pink, l|-2 in. long, silky down the back of the divisions ; capsule 

 unknown. 



Kalahari Region : Bechuandand ; Banqnaketse Territory, near Moshaneng, 

 Bvluh .' Transvaal; ne-dv iiazarelh, Atherstove .' 



17. I. Ommanei (Rendle in Joum. Bot. 1902, 190); sterna 

 herbaceous ; trailing to a length of 6 ft. or more, stout, clothed in 

 the younger parts with whitish or rusty pubescence ; leaves shortly 

 petioled, lanceolate, reaching 8-10 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, rounded 

 or subcordate at the base, subobtuse, crisped and densely eiliate on 

 the margin, densely clothed on both surfaces when young with silky 

 brownish-white hairs; flowers in a dense Iiead on an axillary 



