﻿66 CONVOLVULACE.*: (Baker & Wrigbt). [F^wmcva. 



broad, palraately 5-lobed beyond the middle, brown tomentose 

 beneath ; lobes obovate-cuneate, contiguous, obtuse, cuspidate ; 

 petiole much shorter than the blade ; peduncles slender, assurgent, 

 always 1-flowered, 2-4 in. long ; bracts minute, linear, remote from 

 the flower ; calyx 4-6 lin. long ; sepals chartaceous, oblong, obtuse, 

 much imbricate, the outer hispid; corolla widely funnel-shaped, 

 pale yellow, 11— 1^ in. long, silky down the back of the divisions ; 

 pollen ellipsoid, graniilar Avitli 3 longitudinal smooth areas; 

 capsule unknown. Mervemia malvcvfolia, Bendle in-Juurn. Bot. 

 lyoi, 63. 



Coast Region-. Albany Div. -, on the flats or dump places. Miss Boiokcr ! 

 Batlnirst Uiv. ; Kowie sand-hills, MacOwan, 403 ! 

 Ck.n'XKAL Eegion : Bomtiistit Biv., Boivker I 



49. I. quinquefolia (Hochst. ex Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 

 147); a small annual glabrous herb ; branches short, procumbent or 

 erect; leaves palmately 5-9 -lobed ; lobes varying on the same plant 

 from linear to oblong, and from 7-14 lin. long ; petiole up to 1} in. 

 long; peduncle shorter than the petiole, 1-fluwered, clavate ; sepals 

 ovate, acute, the outer 4 lin. long, the inner rather shorter, glabrous 

 or slightly puberulous ; corolla about 6 lin. long, funnel-shaped, 

 yelloWj glabrous ; lobes triangular, acute ; capsule glabrous, 4!-valvea. 

 Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 545. 



Var. ^, pubescens (Baker); segments of the leaves from obloug to almost 

 orbicular; upper part of pedicel and calyx pubescent. 



Var. 7, purpurea (Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 54G) ; a climber; branches 

 several yards long ; corolla purple. 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony; near Vaal River, Burke! 

 Transvaal; near Mooi River, iiir7;e, 413 ! Var. ^ : Hopetowu Div. ; near Hope- 

 town, Umkett in Herh. Bolus, 2051! 9285 ! Gritpialand West; near Vaal lUver, 

 Mrs. Barber .' Orange River Colony; near Vaal River, Burke 1 



KASTJiKK Region : Nat.il; sandy flats near Mooi River, 3000-4000 ft. , Wood,, 

 4-128 ! and without precise locality, Qerrard, 1334 I 



Also iu Tropical Africa. 



50. I. palmata (Forsk. Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. 43) ; perennial, glabrous 

 in all its parts; stems slender, -wide-twining, the old ones often 

 tiibercled or muricated ; leaves as long as broad (i-2 in.), membranous, 

 })almately cut down nearly to the base into 5-7 oblanceolate obtuse 

 minutely cuspidate lobes ; petiole about as long as the blade, often with 

 a pair of laciniate stipules; peduncle short, usually l-S-flowered ; bracts 

 very minute ; pedicels long, stiffly erect and thickened in the fruiting 

 stage ; calyx 2-3 lin. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, chartaceous, much 

 imbricate ; corolla bright red, broadly funnel-shaped, 1 J-2 in. long, 

 glabrous on the outside ; capsule globose, as long as the calyx ; seeds 

 pubescent and bordered with silky hairs. Brege^ Zwel PJtanzen- 

 geoijr. Documente, 153 ; Choisij in DC. Prod. ix. 386 ; Hook. f. M. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 214. I. jJulchfiUa, and I. tuberculata, Choisij, I.e. I- 

 stij)ulacea, Jacq. Hort. iSchanb. t. 191). /. calrica, Stceet, HorL 



