﻿60 CONVOLVULACEJE (Baker & Wright). [Ipomoea. 



KopV'ies, near Durban, Wood, 4534 ! and without precise locality, If rs. Saunders.' 

 Peddie ! 



Also in Central and South America and Australia. 



32. I. coavolvuloides (Hallier f, in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 140) ; 

 stems very slender^ trailing or twining, densely clothed, as are the 

 leaves, with moderately firm short spreading glittering white or pale 

 yellow hairs ; leaves round or round-deltoid, entire, deeply cordate 

 at the base, obtuse or subobtuse, thick and moderately firm in 

 texture, 6-9 lin. long and broad, densely and persistently pilose ; 

 petiole very short ; peduncles slender, 1-2-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves ; bracts lanceolate, very minute ; calyx glabrous, 3-4 lin. long.; 

 sepals subequal, lanceolate, acute, piUid and membranous on the 

 margins ; corolla bright purple, glabrous, broadly funnel-shaped, 1 in. 

 long ; capsule unknown. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1216 ! 



33. I. undulata (Baker) ; shrubby perennial ; stems trailing, 

 very zigzag, coated, like the leaves and calyx, with persistent whitish 

 silky tomentum ; leaves round-ovate, entire, subcoriaceous, 1-1^ in. 

 long, subacute, shallowly cordate at the base ; petiole very short ; 

 peduncles short, 1-flowered ; bracts ascending, lanceolate, tomentose, 

 adpressed to the calyx, nearly as long as the sepals; calyx 7 lin. 

 long, persistently tomentose; sepals subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; 

 corolla purple, 1^ in. long, broadly funnel-shaped, silky down the 

 back of the divisions ; capsule unknown. 



( OAST Region : Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, Burke ! 



34. I. Woodii (N.E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 101) ; a climber; 

 rootstock tuberous ; stems slender, woody, 10-20 ft. long, densely 

 pubescent upward'^ ; leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate or 

 cordate-orbicular, 2-6 in. long and broad, obtuse or minutely 

 mucronate at the apex, entire, pubescent and dull purplish beneath 

 in a young state, green and finally glabrous on both surfaces ; flowers 

 BoHtary, axillary, distinctly peduncled; sepals 4 lin. long, subequal, 

 obovate, obtuse, glabrous, much imbricate ; corolla rosy pink, glab- 

 rous, 3 in. long, broadly funnel-shaped, shallowly lobed ; stamens 

 much shorter than the style ; style f the length of the corolla ; fruit 

 unknown. Stictocardia Woodii, Hallier f. in Bull. Herh. Boiss. vi. 

 548. 



Eastern Region : Zululand, Wood, 4145 ! 4864 ! 



35. I. saundersiana (Baker) ; stems glabrous ; petiole long, gla- 

 brous ; leaves suborbicular, cuspidate, deeply cordate, 8-9 in. in diam., 

 thin, green, pubescent on the veins beneath ; main veins running 

 from the midrib to the margin; cymes axillary, few-flowered; 

 pedicels pubescent ; sepals ovate, obtuse with a minute cusp, about 

 1 in. long, glabrescent ; corolla funnel-shaped, white, scarcely lobed, 

 3 in. long, 3 in. in diam. ; capsule very large, globose, glabrous ; 

 seeds subglobose, glabrous, 4 lin. in diam., black, puberulous. 



