﻿Ipomcea.] convolvulace^ (Baker & Wright). 55 



when young; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 1|-2|- in. long, 

 1-3 lin, wide, acuminate, hastate or auricled and tootht d at the 

 base, sessile or shortly petioled ; peduncles axillary, usually shorter 

 than the leaves, l-2-flo\vered ; bracts small, subulate ; pedicels 

 short, thickened upwards ; sepals subequal, S lin. long, ovate-lanceo- 

 late and acute, or oblong with a distinct cusp, glabrous ; corolla 

 white or pale yellow with a purple centre, funnel-shaped-campanu- 

 late ; capsule globose, glabrous, 3 lin. in diam. ; seeds black, 

 glabrous. Urege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 159; Benth. Fl. 

 Amtr. iv. 425; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 205. I. filicaulis, 

 Blume, Bijdr. 721 ; Chomj in DC. Prod. ix. 353 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 5426; Houk. Niger Fl. 466. I. dentieulata, R. Br. Prodr. 485; 

 Bot. Beg. t. 317, 7iot of Chohy. Convolvulus denticulatus, Spreng. 

 Syst. Veg. i. 603. G. filiformis, Tliunb. FL Cap. ed. 2, ii. 16, ed. 

 iichult. 168. C. angusti/olius, De^rou^s. in Lam. Encycl. iii. 647. 

 Merremia angustifolia, Hallier f. in Engl. Jalirb. xviii. 117, ind. 

 var. ambigua. M. hastata, Hallier f. I.e. 



Yab. j3, retusa (Baker) ; leaves oblong, broader than in the type, retuse, 

 minutely cuspidate. I. retusa, E. Meyer in Dreqe, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docu- 

 mente, 156. Merremia retusa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 117. 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony ; Wolve Kop, Burke! Bechuana- 

 bind ; near the souice of Kurninan River, Burchell, 2J53! between Haiuapery 

 and Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2530! Transvaal; Magalies Herg, Burke! Zeyher, 

 1215! Marico District, Holub ! South African Gold-fields, Baines! Pilgrims 

 Hes-t, Greenstock ! Jeppestown Ridges, GOOO ft., GilfiUan in Herb. Oalpin, 

 615^1 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; near Durban, Eregel Wood, 23! McKen,832l 

 Inauda, Wood, 490! 1079! by the River Umlazi, Krauss, 108! and without 

 precise locality, Grant! Gueinzius ! Gerrard ! 531! 1333! Delagoa Bay, 

 J'orhesI Var. $ : Natal; sandy flats near the mouth of Umzimkulu Kiver, 

 Drege! and without precise locality, Peddie! 



21. I. bowieana (Baker) ; perennial ; stem slender, twining, 

 terete, rigid, glabrous; leaves sessile, linear, 1-lJ- in. long, 1-^—2 lin, 

 broad, mucronulate, thick, stiffish, pubescent on the upper surface, 

 glabrescent beneath ; flowers usually solitary ; peduncle 1-2 in. 

 long; pedicel 4-6 lin. long; bracts linear-lanceolate; sepals about 

 6 Im. long, elliptic to broadly obovate, rusty-pubescent on the back, 

 the two outer larger than the three inner; corolla funnel-shaped, 

 1 in. long, rusty-pilose outside ; filaments narrowed upwards ; style 

 above 6 lin. long ; ovary glabrous. Merremia bowieana, Bendle in 

 Journ. Bot. 1901, 63. 



Coast Region : Roadsides in the districts of Swellendam and George, 

 Bowie ! 



22. I. bellecomans (Kendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 15) ; suffru- 

 ticose, ashy pilose; branches patent; leaves ovate, obtuse, sometimes 

 truncate at the base, 6 lin. long, 3 Hn. wide, densely ashy pilose on 

 bath surfaces ; petiole very short ; peduncle axillary, longer than the 

 leaves, 1 -flowered ; bracts remote from the calyx, ovate ; outer 

 sepals 6 lin. long, 2^ lin. wide, ovate, acute, inner narrower, acumi- 



