﻿54 convolvulacej: (Baker & Wright). [Ipomoea. 



peduncle much shorter than the leaves ; lower bracts ovate, acutni- 

 nate, above 1 in. long ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, silky on the 

 back, ciliate, above 1 in. long, the two outer much broader than the 

 three inner; corolla funnel-shaped, magenta-coloured, 2 in. long, 

 rather silky outside ; anthers sagittate, above 3 lin. long. 



Kalahabi Region : Tvansvaal j Mooi Eiver, Burke ! Wondorboom Toort, 

 near Pretoria, ZJeAmann, 4541! neir Joliannesbarg, Ommawey, 90 ! 91! Rand, 

 1226! near Rootle Poort, Hand. W60 ! Jeppestown Ridges, 6000 ft., GilfiUan in 

 Herb. Qalpin, 6158 ! and cultivated specimen, Wood, 7189 ! 



The leaves are said to be greedily eaten by cattle. 



y^ 18. I. ovata (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 

 154, 195); perennial twiner ; stems robust, angular, densely clothed 

 with deflexed bristly hairs ; leaves ovate, entire, firm in texture, 

 obtuse or subacute, truncate or shallowly cordate at the base, 2-4 in. 

 long, nearly glabrous or thinly bri.-stly on both sides when mature ; 

 petiole much shorter than the blade ; flowers several, capitate, on a 

 bristly peduncle 2-5 in. long ; bracts linear, bristly, ^-f in. long ; 

 calyx f-1 in. long, clothed throughout with dense spreading bristly 

 hairs ; sepals equal, linear, very acuminate ; corolla broadly f unnel- 

 fhaped, bright purple, 2-2|- in. long, glabrous on the outside ; 

 capsule glabrous, much shorter than the calyx ; seeds glabrous. 

 JRendle inJourn. Bot. 1901, 19. 



y Var. $, pelUta (Baker) ; leaves densely matted with a persistent coat of dense 

 - 8oft hairs on both sides; hairs of the sepals longer and softer. I. sp.,Drege, I.e. 

 145. I. fellita, Hxllier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 130. 



Kalahaei Region: Basutoiand, Coover, 2779! Transvaal; Greyling, 

 Vandeleur ! 



Easstbrn Region : Transkei ; near Butterwonb, Boivlcer, 323 ! Natal ; 

 between Umtentu River and Umzitnkulu River, Dre^e .' Attercliff, Sanderson, 

 293! 395! Nototi River, Gerrard, 2! luanda, Wo-d, 806! near Tugek River, 

 800 ft., Wood, 3974 ! and without precise locality, Flant, 8 ! Var. j8 : Transkei; 

 between Gekau (G-cua) River and Bashee River, 1000-2000 K^', Vrege, 4^05 ! 

 Natal; near Mooi Eiver, Wood, 3460! near Camuerdowu, SOOO tt., Wood, 

 4999! 



19. I. gerrardiana (Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 21) ; annual ; 

 stems slender, wide-climbing, clothed with spreadnig deflexed hurs ; 

 leaves roundish, cuspidate, entite, deeply cordate at the base, 2-3 in. 

 long and broad, membranous, green and glabrous on both sides when 

 mature, slightly pubescent when young ; petiole thinly pilose, 

 nearly as long as the blade ; cymes copious, subumbellate, 3-6- 

 flowered ; peduncles i-3in. long ; bracts minute, caducous; pedicels 

 about as long as the calyx ; calyx 4J- hn. long, densely pilose in 

 the lower half ; sepals leafy, subequal, lanceolate, acute ; corolla 

 whitish, broadly funnel-shaped, about 1 in. long, glabrous on the 

 outside ; capsule glabrous, shorter than the calyx ; seeds glabrous. 



Easxkkn Rbgion : Natal ; Ladysmith, Gerrard, 620 ! 



20. I. angustifolia (Jacq. Coll. ii. 367 ; Ic. t. 317) ; stems 

 slender, wiry, rambling or twining, glabrous or finely pubescent 



