﻿Astrochls^na.] convolvulacej: (Baker & Wright), 69 



1. A. malvacea (Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121) ; suffruticose ; 

 stem erect, 3-5 ft. high, clothed with whitish stellate tomentura, 

 terete ; leaves broadly ovate, acute, rounded at the base, up to i in,. 

 long and 2} in. wide, entire, green and sparingly stellately hairy 

 above, densely white stellately tomentose beneath ; petiole slender, 

 up to 1 in. long ; peduncles axillary, 2-1-flovvered, much shorter than 

 the leaves ; bracts 1 lin. long, ovate, deciduous ; calyx-lobes sub- 

 equal, ovate, acute, white-tomentose, 3 lin. long ; corolla purple, 

 glabrous, funnel-shaped, 1} in. long, 1-} in. in diam., scarcely lobed ; 

 stamens unequal ; anthers sagittate; ovary glabrous; style filiform; 

 capsule subglobose, 4 lin. in diam., glabrous. Breweria maUacea, 

 Klnfzicli in Peters, BeUe Mossamh. Bot. 245, t. 37. Conuoloulus 

 malvaceus, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 117. 



Kalahari Region : South African gold-fields, Baines ! 



Eastern Eegion : Nittal ; neur Durban and Tontriiut, Gerrard S' Mr.Keti, 

 005! near Durbmi, Wood, 4943! and withouf pri^cise localiiv, Gneinziax, aOS, 

 394 (ex Hallier /.). DehiDron Bay, Forbes! Monteiro, 31 ! Bolus <$• MacOwan, 

 Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 1325 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



V. JACaTTEMONTIA, Choisy. 



Sepals 5, leafy, equal or unequal, free to the base. Corolla 

 campanulate ; lobes very short. Stamens inserted low down in the 

 corolla-tube. Ocarij 2-celled, 4 ovuled ; style filiform, with 2 

 flattened ovate stigmas. Fruit a globose capsule. 



Twining herbs; leaves entire, often cordate; flowers small, purple, blue or 

 white, eymose or capitate. 



DisTRiB. Species 30-40, all but the following ai-e natives of Tropical 

 America. 



1. J. capitata (G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 283) ; annual herb ; stems 

 ■wide-twining, slender, clothed with fine brownish silky pubescence ; 

 leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, entire, acute or cuspidate ; 

 peduncles about as long as the leaves ; flowers many in a globose 

 head, with two large leafy bracts and many smaller ones ; calyx 

 3 lin. long, densely clothed with spreading brown silky hairs ; 

 sepals subequal, lanceolate, acute; corolla a little longer than tlie 

 calyx, purplish-white, glabrous; capsule the size of a pea, glabrous 

 inside. Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 95; Wood ^ Evans, Nntal 

 PL t. 13. Convolvulus capifatus, Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. iii. 554. 

 Ipomoia capitata, Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 365. 



Eastern Region : Natnl ; Uinlaas (Uinlazi) Native LocatioD, Wood, 4573 ! 

 and without precise locality, Hoiigon ' 



Also in Tropical Africa and the Mascarenc Isles. 



