80 xc. convolvulace^e (bakeb and bendle). [Bonamia. 



cymosus, Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 303. C. Senegambice, Spreng. 

 Syst. i. 610, Ipomcea Afzelii, Ohoisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 373. /. secunda, 

 Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 282 ; Choisy I.e. 390. I. Senegambice, Choisy I.e. 

 351. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia, Ingram ! Sierra Leone, Don ! SmeatTiman ! 

 Afzelius ! Barter! Hart! Morson ! Stormont ! Scott- Elliot, 3930 ! 4170! 5599! 

 5835! 5836! Liberia: near Monrovia, Whyte ! Ashanti : Assin Yan Kumassi, 

 Cummins, 165 ! Lagos, Barter, 2227 ! 20167 ! Mitten, 34 ! Cameroons : Barombi, 

 Preuss, 268 ; Batanga, Dinklage, 684. 



3. B. minor, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 91. Stem shrubby, 

 climbing, glabrous, finely striate. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate- 

 obovate, above an inch long, G lin. broad, subacute, mucronate, narrowed 

 gradually to, the base, glabrous above and becoming so beneath, fascicled 

 in the leaf axils at the lower nodes ; petiole about 2 lin. long. Cymes 

 1-3-flowered, shortly peduncled, subspicate at the end of the branchlets ; 

 peduncle and pedicels about 2 lin. long. Calyx ovoid, silky ; sepals 

 equal, elliptic, coriaceous. Corolla funnel-shaped, subentire, silky 

 outside on the midpetaline areas, about 7 lin. long. — Hallier f. in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 999. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Katanga : Lukafu, Verdeck, 592. Lo- 

 manii River, Pogge, 1214. Kazembe River, a tributary of the Lualaba River, 

 Descamps. 



10. ZSTEUROPELTIS, Wall. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 878. 



Sepals subequal, much imbricated. Corolla deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 

 induplicate-valvate ; stamens inserted in the corolla-tube ; filaments 

 filiform; anthers oblong. Disc very small. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 

 4-ovuled ; styles distinct from the base, simple ; stigmas peltate, 

 flattened. Capsule coriaceous, 1 -seeded. Seed globose, glabrous ; 

 embryo plicate. — Wide-climbing shrubs, with woody stems. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, entire, petioled. Flowers small, white, forming 

 a panicle with racemose branches ; bracts very accrescent, in a late 

 stage scariose, bearing fruit in the centre. 

 Species 4, two in Tropical Asia. 



Branches and leaves not ferruginously hairy . . 1. N. acuminata. 



Branches and undersurface of leaves densely ferru- 



ginousiy hairy . . . . . . 2. N. velutina. 



1. N. acuminata, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 469. A shrubby 

 climber, 30-40 ft. high, with stout woody stems bearing soft adpressed 

 hairs in the younger parts. Leaves elliptic tending to obovate, 

 2^—4 in. long, cuspidate, rounded to subdeltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, 

 glabrous to glabrescent; petiole 1 in. long. Flowers in cylindrical 

 terminal and axillary racemes 5—6 in. long on the shorter branches ; 

 rhachis with short ferruginous hairs. Pedicels short, becoming 6-9 lin. 

 long in the fruiting stage, and adnate to a scarious orbicular bract 

 1|— 2 in. long and broad. Sepals orbicular, with ciliate margins, 1 lin. 



