﻿Ipomaea.] cONvOLVULACEiE (Baker & Wright). 65 



4-6 lin. long ; sepals oblong, chartaceous, obtuse, much imbricate ; 

 corolla 2 in. long, reddish, glabrous on the outside, canjpanulate 

 above a cylindrical bai=e, which is as long as the calyx ; ovary more 

 or less distinctly 4-celled; capsule globose, 6 lin. in diara., 4-valved; 

 seeds embedded in a dense mass of cotton. Choisy in DG. Prod. ix. 

 389. I. paniculata, R. Br. Prod. 486 ; Bot. Beg. t. 62 ; var, 

 2>aueiflora, E. Meyer in Dreg&, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. JDocumente, 195 ; 

 JIallier f. in Engl. Jalirb. xviii. 149. I. insignis, Ajidr. Bot. JRep. t. 

 636. Convolvulus pamctdatns, Linn. 'SpTPl^ ed. 2, 223. Batatas 

 paniculata^ Choisy in DG. Prod. ix. 339. 



South Africa : without locality, Thnnherff f 



Eastern Region : Natal ; between Uinziinkulu River and Umkomanzi River, 

 Dreje I near Durban Bay and by the Umlazi River, KransSj 94 ! near 

 Tui^elu River, Gerrard, 837! 734 ! Ziiluland, Gerrard, 6261 1334. ! 1791 ! 

 Delagoa Bay, Spcke, 4 ! Forbes ! Scott .' 



Also throughout the warm regions of both hemispheres, 



46. I. tetraptera (Baker) ; shrubby, wide-climbing, perennial, 

 glabrous in all its parts ; main stem furnished with 4 broad 

 membranous wings ; leaves as broad as long (4-6 in.), round- 

 cordate, membranous, green on both sides, palmately 5-7-lobcd 

 down to the middle ; lobes broad, roundish, cuspidate, contignous, 

 much narrowed at the base ; petiole rather shorter than the blade 

 peduncles moderately long; flowers few, cyraose ; bracts minute, 

 linear ; pedicels short, erect ; calyx 4 lin. long ; sepala obovate- 

 oblong, obtusft, much imbricate, chartaceous ; corolla broadly funnel 

 shaped, yellow or white, 1 in. long, densely silky on the outside 

 capsule unknown. 



Eastern Region : Natal ; near Tngela River, in thorny bush, Gerrard, 

 1334 ! 1791a! Krans Kop, McKen, 1 ! Palmiet, near Durban, Wood, 7542 ! edge 

 of bush on bank of the Little Tugela, Wood, 3500 ! 



47. I. magnusiana (Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 

 272); herbaceous; stems slender, twining, thinly bristly; leaves 

 about as broad as long (f-1 in.), palmately 5-lobed nearly or quite to 

 the base, green and hispid on the upper surface, matted with 

 persistent white tomentum beneath, through which the brown veins 

 are distinctly visible ; lobes oblong, acute ; petiole about as long as 

 the blade ; peduncles short, 1-flowered ; pedicels very short ; bracts 

 small, linear; calyx 3 lin. long, thinly bristly; sepals unequal, 

 lanceolate, acute, membranous ; corolla 6 lin. long, funnel-shaped, 

 campanulate, pilose on the outside ; capsule glabrous, 3 lin. in diam. ; 

 seeds pubescent. Hallierf. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 135. 



Kalahari Region : Bechuanaland ; near the ruins at Kurumao, Burchell, 

 2420 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



48. I. malvsefolia (Baker) ; stems very slender, trailing, shortly 

 pubescent, as are the leaves and calyx ; leaves deltoid, about 1 in. 



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