﻿64 coNYOLYTJLACE^ (Baker & Wright). [Ipomoea. 



Convolv. Orient. 88, and DC. Prod. ix. 364 ; Wight, Ic. PI. t. 1364 ; 

 Klohsch in Peters, Seise M(mamh.,Bot. 239 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Incl. iv. 203 ; Rullier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 133, and 

 xxviii. 32. I. araclmoidea, Bojer, Hart. Maur. 228, name only j 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 364 ; Hallierf. I.e. Convolvulus Wightii, 

 Wall. PL Asiat. Bar. n. 55, t. 171. C. gossypinu?, Wall. Cat. 

 1407. 



Kalahari Rkgion -. Transvaal ; overgrowing shrubs in wooded ravines near 

 Biirbertou, 3000-4000 ft., Galpin, 95 5! Houtbosch, Behmann, 5933 (ex 

 Hallier f.). 



Eastern Region: Natal; Inanda, TFood, 1310 ! Pinetown, J2e?imann, 79S6 

 (ex HaWer) and witboHt pre.ise locality, Cooper, 2780! Mrs. K. tiaunders! 

 Gueimins (ex Hallier /.) ; Zulula-nd, Gerrarcl, 402 1 Wood, 7899 ! 



Also in Madagascar, and Tropical Africa and Asia. 



44. I. ficifolia (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. 90 ; 1841, t. 13) ; 

 root tuberous ; stem climbing, slightly shrubby, sparsely pilose ; 

 leaves 3-lobed, li-2 in. long and broad, terminal lobe acute or 

 acuminate, lateral rounded, base cordate, upper surface with 

 numerous scattered adpressed hairs, lower densely white cobwebby 

 when young, less so when mature; petiole pilose; peduncle 3-5- 

 (rarely 1-) flowered ; pedicels very short ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 like the sepals densely hirsute ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, about 

 6 lin. long, vmiform ; corolla rich purple (LiwiZe?/), pink {Wood), 

 broadly funnel-shaped, l|^-2 in. long, glabrous ; capsule globose, 

 membranous, 2-celled, glabrous with seeds bearing a tuft of cottony 

 hairs on one side, or pilose with glabrous seeds. Hallierf. in Engl. 

 Jahrh. xviii. 135, xxviii. 35. I. holoxericea, E. Meyei' in Drege, 

 Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 132, \%h, name only', Choisy in 

 DC Prod. ix. 364. /. vitifolia, E. Meyer, I.e. 158, not of Siceet nor 

 Lam. I. angulata, E. Meyer, I.e. 134, 195. I. arachnoidea, Choisy, 

 I.e., partly, not of Bojer. I. Aitoni, Choisy, I.e. 363, not of Lindl. 

 Convolvulus trilobus, Thunb. Prodr. 35 ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 169; 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 415. 



Coast Region : Hnraansdorp Div. ; near Zeekoe River, TJiMW-berg .' Uitenbage 

 Div. ; Addo, 1000-2000 ft., Drege ! between Enon and the Zuurberg Range, 

 Drege 1 Klein Winterhoek Mountains, below 1000 ft., Drige ! in woods near 

 Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 90! Bathurst Div. j near the mouth of the Fish River, 

 BuTchell, 3727 ! sand-dunes near Kowie River, MacOwan, 407 ! Albany Div., 

 Cooper, 2773 ! King Williamstown Div. ; Keiskamma, Mrs. Button ! 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; near Port St. John, Gal-pin, 2S34! between 

 Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, Drege! Natal; Umkzi River Heights, 

 Drege! near Durban, Wood, 494! 3091! Nonoti, Oerrard, 1328! Inanda, 

 Wood, 87 ! and without precise locality. Grant ! Cooper, 2416 ! Oerrard, 402 ! 



"7 45. I. digitata (Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. 924) ; perennial, glabrous 

 in all its parts ; stems stout, wide-climbing ; leaves as broad as 

 long (4-6 in.), distinctly cordate, with 3-5 deltoid palmate lobes 

 reaching i or | way down to the middle ; petiole as long as or 

 longer than the blade; peduncles often longer than the leaves, 

 bearing few or many cyraose flowers ; bracts small, deciduous ; calyx 



