﻿Ipomoea.] convolvulacejj (Baker & Wright). 63 



Vab. $, longipes (C. H. Wright) ; leaves stri^ose on both surfiices when 

 young, at length gLibrescent above. /. longipes, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 216. 



Sooth Africa : without locahty, Zeyher, VISOl 



Coast EegioxX : Port Beaufort Div. ; Kat River Poort, Drege ! 



KAtAHAEi Region: Bechuanaland ; on Misadji Wountain, Burchell, 2362! 

 Griqualand West; Great Boetsap, MarJoth, i)8l I Oraiiire River Colony; Vet 

 River, Burlce ! and without precise locality. Cooper, 2767 ! Var. : Transvaal ; 

 Magalies Berg, BiirJce, 118 partly! Zeyher, 1217! Y.ster Spruit, Nelson, 253! 

 Waterval River, Wilms, 987 ! Jeppestown Ridges, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. 

 Galpin, 6052 ! 6154 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; Inanda, TFoori, 943! near Durban, Wood, ^8oll 

 and without precise locality, Wood, 30!J5 ! Gerrard, 773 ! Var. ;8 : Natal ; 

 Inanda, Wood, 413 ! 1424 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa and Asia. 



41. I. Papilio (ffallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 543) ; stems 

 Ioi)g, slender, trailing, glabrous ; leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 Y- 1|- in. long, deeply and irregularly toothed in the lower half, 

 green and glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole up to I in. long ; 

 peduncles short, axillary, l-2-flo\vered ; bracts minute, ovate ; 

 pedicels short, thick ; sepals unequal, ovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 3-4 lin. long, green, glabrous; corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 1 in. 

 long, pink, scarcely lobed ; stamens half the length of the corolla; 

 capsule globose^ -| in, in diam. ; seeds trigonous, ashy pulverulent. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; hill-sidps around Barberton, 2800-3000 ft., 

 Galpin, 624! Magalies Berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1225! Aapies .Poort, near 

 Pretoria, Rehmann, 413'J ! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



42. I. petunioides (Baker) ; annual ; stems very short, trailing, 

 slender, densely clothed with short rusty bristly hairs ; leaves ovate 

 or oblong, puberulous, ciliate on the margins and principal nerves of 

 the under surface, green on both surfaces, under 1 in. long, acute 

 or obtuse, cuneate at the base, repando-pinnatifiJ, not auricled ; 

 petiole bristly, about half as long as the blade ; peduncles short, 

 1 -flowered ; bracts linear, as long as the sepals, placed a short 

 distance below the calyx ; calyx 3-4 lin. long; sepals leafy, lanceo- 

 late, acute ; corolla purplish, broadly funnel-shaped, 1 J- in. long, 

 glabrous on the outside; stamens | as long as the corolla; capsule 

 unknown. 



Kalahari Region: Transvaal; near Schoon River, Burlce! 



43. I. Wightii (Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. vi. (1833) 

 470) ; stems wide-twining, slender, terete, densely clothed with 

 soft deflexed spreading hairs ; leaves membranous, about as broad as 

 long (3-4 in.), roundish, deeply cordate, with 3 shallow subequal 

 rounded lobes, green and thinly bristly above, thinly coated with 

 pex-sistent white tomentum beneath ; petiole longer than the blade ; 

 peduncle shorter than the petiole ; flowers few, capitate ; bracts 

 linear ; calyx very shaggy, | in. long ; sepals lanceolate, leafy, acute 

 or acuminate ; corolla narrowly campanulate, about 1 in. long, rose- 

 colour; capsule pubescent, membranous, nearly as long as the calyx. 



