﻿Ipomoea.] cosvolyvlkcem (Baker & Wright). 67 



Brit. ed. ii. 370 ; £of. 3Iag. t. 699 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xviii. 148. Convolvulus cairicm, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 222. 



Coast Region : Port Elizabeth Div. ; by rivulets near the forests of Knikii- 

 kaumiH, Zeyher, 467 ! 3344 ! 



Easteen Region : Poiidohind; near the mouth of Umtsikaba Eiver, Drege ! 

 Natal; near Durban, McKen, 621! luanda, Wood, 1295! by the Umhloti 

 Uiiigeni and Umlazi iiivers, Krauss, 303! and without precise locality, 

 Grant / 



I. dasysperma, Jacq. f. Eclog'. t. 89, Choisy, I.e., of which there is a South 

 African specimen at Kew, gathered by Villette, seems to be merely a yellow- 

 flowered variety of this species. 



51. I. dissecta (Willd. Phyt. 5, t. 2, fig. 3) ; annual ; stems very 

 slender, trailing, glabrous ; leaves digitate, glabrous, 1-1 } in. in 

 diam., with 5 deltoid pinnatifid lobes; petiole short; peduncle 

 shorter than the leaves, 1-3-flowered; bracts small, lanceolate; 

 sepals oblong, minutely cuspidate, glabrous, 2 lin. long ; corolla 

 "white, regularly funnel-shaped, twice as long as the calyx ; capsule 

 globose, glabrous, 3-celled, 3 lin. in diam. ; seeds 6, glabrous. 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 363, excl. syn. I. coptica, Roth ex Roem. 

 d: Schult. Syst. iv. 208; Roth, Nov. PL Sp. HO; Choisy in DC. 

 Prod. ix. 384 ; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 147, and xxviii. 45. 

 Convolvulus copticus, Linn. Mant. 55D. 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal, Rehmann, 4930, 5225 (ex Hallier f.). 

 Also iu the tropical parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia. 



II. aUAMOCLIT, Tourn. 



Calyx cup-shaped ; lobes 5, mucronate. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 tube long. Stamens much exserted ; anthers short. Ooary 4 -celled ; 

 cells 1-ovuled; style undivided: st'gma capitate, 2-lobed. 



Herbaceous climbers ; leaves entire, or pahnately or pinnately lobed. 

 DiSTBiB. Species about 10 in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



1. ft. COCcinea (Moench, Meth. 453) ; stem terete or obscurely- 

 quadrangular, glabrous or slightly hairy at the nodes ; leaves cordate, 

 entire or 3-lobed, about 2 in. long and broad ; peduncles about 6 in. 

 long, terminating in a lax cyme; calyx 2 lin. long; teeth subulate ; 

 corolla red; tube 1 in. long, slightly inflated above; limb about 

 10 lin. in diam. ; lobes rotundate; filaments slender, much exserted. 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 335 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. hui. 

 iv. 199 ; Peter in Engl. ^ Prantl, Pflanze7ifam. iv. 3A. 27. Ipomoea 

 coccinea, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, 228;" Bat. Mag. t. 221 ; Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 499 ; Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vii. 218. 



Sooth Africa: without locality, Villette! Thunberg! 

 Doubtless introduced. 

 Also in tropical Asia and Amerii.-a. 



The specimen in Thuuberg's herbarium is mimed " Coni:olculiid folanif'Aia." 



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