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13. I. elythrocephala Hall. f., l.c., p. 134. 
GoLtunco ALTo.—A perennial, twining herb, sarmentose to a great 
length ; leaves bright green above, clothed beneath with a snow-white 
felt ; flowers of a rosy-violet colour, ornamented with white-felted 
longitudinal folds. Up the stalks of Penniseta in reed-beds and at 
the lower thickets near Trombeta, Camilungo, etc., plentiful; flowering 
nearly throughout the year; fl. and fr. March and April 1855. No. 
6184. Flowers purple, with the folds of the corolla cottony and 
whitish-glaucous. By thickets near N-delle, plentiful ; fl. and fr. 
Oct. 1855. No 6185. An annual, widely climbing herb ; leaves 
discolorous ; flowers 13 in. long, tubular-campanulate, rosy purple. In 
a few spots about Canaula, etc. ; fl. June 1856. No. 6183. 
14. I. Pes tigridis L. Sp. Pl., edit. 1, p. 162 (1753); Hall. f., Le. 
Var. africana Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. p. 539 (July 1898). 
Huriia.—A prostrate herb ; stems several, very long, sarmentose, 
rooting in every direction, pilose as well as the peltate-digitate leaves ; 
corolla funnel-shaped, whitish-rosy ; stigma bicapitellate. In fields of 
maize and Arachis hypogea, about Lopollo, sparingly ; fl.10 Jan. 1860. 
No. 6119. 
15. I. involucrata P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. & Ben. ii. p. 52, t. 89 
(18172); Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 135. 
Gotunco ALtto.—A perennial, widely climbing herb ; corolla 
campanulate, purple-red or violet-purple, the folds whitish-glaucous 
especially towards the base of the tube. In the drier reed-beds 
throughout Sobato de Bumba, not uncommon ; by thickets near 
Quibixe, fl. May 1855; fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 6188. At the 
Quibixe thickets ; fr. Sept. 1855 and June 1856. Cou. Carp. 770. 
Hoviiia.—In fr., without foliage. No notes. Apparently this species. 
No. 6123. 
Var. £. albiflora (Welw.). 
Corolla campanulate, # in. long, white. 
GoLuNGO ALTO.—By the lower thickets near Canaula and Camilungo, 
fl. April 1856 ; by thickets between Bengo and Sange, fl. end of April 
1856. No. 6189. 
16. I. velutipes Welw. ex Rendle in Journ. Bot. xxxii. 175 (1894). 
Gotungo ALTo.—A herb, climbing far and widely, remarkable for 
its densely cottony stem. At the outskirts of the forest near Zengas 
do Queta ; without either fl. or fr. Dec. 1855. No. 6228. A perennial, 
widely climbing herb ; the adult stems clothed with a white cottony 
coat, the younger ones without cotton ; corolla 15 in. long, very 
fugacious, funnel-shaped-campanulate, rosy outside, deep red-purple 
inside especially from the throat to the bottom of the tube, varnished- 
shining ; the limb sub-entire, 5-plicate ; stamens 5, 2 of them higher 
than the rest, included ; filaments springing from the bottom of the 
corolla-tube, adnate for a considerable length to the tube, then free 
from it ; anthers rosy ; style filiform, a little shorter than the stamens ; 
stigma globose-capitate. By damp thickets at the outskirts of the 
forests among the Queta mountains, not common ; fl. middle of May 
1856. No. 6227. Zengas do Queta ; fl. May and July 1856. No. 6142. 
Queta mountains ; fr. August 1856. No. 6226. 
17. I. pilosa Sweet, Hort. Brit., edit. 1, ii. p. 289 (1827). 
Convolvulus bicolor Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. Méth. iii. p. 564 
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