﻿Ipomoea.] coNVOLVULACEiE (Baker & Wright). 57 



near Barberton, 3000-4000 ft., Oalpin, 731! Var. j3 : Orange River Colony, 

 Cooper, 2776! Bolus. 8218! Transvaal; between Middleburg and Crocodile 

 River, Wilms, 998 ! High Veld, Adlam, 2 ! Asipies Poort, near Pretoria, Reh- 

 mann, 4135 ! near Johannesburg, Ommaney, 36 ! Band, 1118 ! Jeppestown 

 Ridges, 1000 ft., OHfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6237 ! Var. y : Transvaal ; near 

 Lydenburg, Wilms,9i)i)l 10001 near Barberton, 3000 ft., Galpin, 851 ; Var. S : 

 Transvaal; Boschveld, at Kl'ip^un, Behmann, 5235! Var. ( : Transvaal; Hout- 

 bosnli, Rehmann, 5934 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; between Gekau (G'-ua) River and Basbee 

 River, Dj-ege .' Natal; between Pietermaritzbuig and Greytown, lFt7m?, 2155 ! 

 Ciairinont,-uear Dnrbaii, 150 ft., Wood, 3844 ! Inamia, Wood, 4296 I near Botbas 

 Hill, 2000 ft., Wood, 4568! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 557! 1329 

 partly! Mrs. Saunders/ Var. /3 : Natal; near (, barb'stown, Wood, 5239! near 

 Mooi River, Wood, 3460! near Van Reenens Pass, 5000-^:000 ft.. Wood, 4524! 

 Zululand plains, Gerrard, 1330 ! Var. y : Griqunland East ; near Kokstad, 

 Tyson, 1892 ? and in MacOivan and Bolus Herb. Norm. Afr.-Auit., 577 ! Natal ; 

 Zaai Lager, near Estcourt, Wood, 3461 ! Upper Umlazi River, Wood, 1830 ! 

 near Newcastle, Wood, 62)2! Wilm.'!, 2151! and v/ithont preei.-:e locality, 

 Gerrard, 132i^ partly ! Cooper, 2772 I Var. e : Natwl ; Pinetown, Junod, 169 ! 

 Northdene, 500 ft., Wood, 5352 ! aud without precise locality, Oueinzius ! 



24. I. sarmentacea (Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 15) ; an under- 

 shrub, with prostrate flexuose branches which, hke the leaves and 

 sepals, are thinly hispid ; leaves ehortly petioled, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, 1-2 in. long, truncate or subcordate at the base ; peduncles 

 1-flowered, about 6 lin. long ; bracts small, linear-lanceolate^ a little 

 distance from the calyx ; sepals 6 lin. long ; outer ovate, acute, 

 dilated at the base, inner linear ; corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, If in. 

 long, apparently purple j tube 10 lin. long, 3 lin. in diam. ; moath 

 14 lin. in diam. 



Kalahaei Region : Transvaal ; Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ! 



25. I. sublucens (Eendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 17); shrubby 

 perennial ; stems trailing, zigzag, coated, like the leaves and calyx, 

 with persistent whitish silky tomentum ; leaves oblong or elliptic- 

 ovate, entire, firm in texture, 1-2 in. long, obtuse or subacute, 

 shallowly cordate at the base, persistently matted with silky 

 tomentum on both sides ; petiole very short ; peduncles short, 1-2- 

 llowered ; bracts ascending, lanceolate, clasping the calyx, nearly as 

 long as the sepals ; calyx -J in. long, silky ; sepals equal, lanceolate, 

 acute ; corolla purple, 2 in. long, broadly funnel-shaped, silky down 

 the back of the divisions ; capsule unknown. 



Kalahari Region: Bechuanaland; at Hamapery near KaTam&n, Burchell, 

 2448 ! 



Eastern Region ; Natal, Miss Owen! 



26. I. oblongata (E. Meyer in Drfege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Doeu- 

 mente, 46, 142; ; perennial twiner; ttems slender, angular, densely 

 clothed with spreading hairs ; leaves ovate, entire, moderately firm 

 in texture, acute or obtuse with a cusp, rounded or oh^curely cordate 

 at the base, 1-3 in. long, thinly pubescent on both sides when 

 mature ; peduncles short, hairy, 1-2 flowered ; bracts large, linear 

 or lanceolate, bristly, contiguous to the calyx ; calyx 6-9 lin. long, 



