Jacquemontia.] xc. convolvulace^e (baker and rendle). 87 



Distinguished from I. capitata by the shorter heads of flowers, and the form 

 and size of the bracts. It may perhaps be the Ijpomaea No. 9 of Hooker's Niger 

 Fl. 467. 



8. J. ovalifolia, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 96. Annual or 

 biennial. Stem branched from the base; branches slender, elongated, 

 ascending, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, 

 entire, obtuse, narrowed to the base, f— If in. long, glabrous, " rather 

 fleshy and somewhat glaucous green, soft and almost greasy to the 

 touch" (Welwitsch) ; petiole \-^h in. long. Peduncle short, slender, 

 few-flowered, under 1 in. long ; lower bracts like the leaves but 

 small and deciduous, the upper minute ; pedicels slender, shorter than 

 the flower. Calyx glabrous, about 2 lin. long; sepals herbaceous, 

 the two outer obovate-elliptic, reaching nearly 3 lin. long, blunt to 

 shortly acute, the inner smaller, ovate, shortly acute to acute. Corolla 

 blue, twice as long as the calyx, glabrous. Capsule globose, reddish- 

 brown, glabrous, 2^ lin. in diam. Seeds scabridulous, dull brown. — 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 726. Ipomcea ovalifolia, Choisy 

 in Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, vi. 449, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 357 ; Benth. 

 in Hook. Niger FL 406. /. oleracea, Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 589 

 no. 74. Convolvulus coeruleus, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 

 PI. 101. 



Upper Guinea. Guinea, Thonning ! Gold Coast: Accra, Tog el ! Don! 

 Brown, 374 ! and without precise locality, Krause I Isert ! Cape Coast Castle, 

 Brass ! Togo : near Lome, Warnecke, 254 ! 



Wile X>axid. Somaliland: near Web Karanle River, Riva, 1004. British 

 East Africa : Lake Dumi, Gregory ! 



lower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, Welwitsch, 6252 ! Gossweiler, 165 ! 

 Mos.samedes, Welivitsch, 6121 ! Dammaraland, Hopfner, 21. 



4. J. paniculata, Hallier f. in. Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 95. Annual. 

 Stems slender, wide-climbing, pubescent, as are also the petioles 

 and peduncles. Leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, l|-2 in. long, 

 membranous, upper surface glabrescent, lower surface sparsely pubes- 

 cent, mainly on the thinly prominent nerves ; petiole slender, about half 

 as long as the blade. Flowers several to many in a dense cyme ; 

 peduncle slender, stouter and longer than the petiole, li-2 in. 

 long ; pedicels barely 3 lin. long ; bracts minute, deciduous. Sepals 

 subequal-ovate, acute to acuminate, pubescent, 2^ lin. long. Corolla 

 pinkish-white, twice the length of the calyx. Capsule globose, 

 glabrous, 2 -J- lin. in diam., 2-celled ; valves 4, brittle. Seeds 4, scabri- 

 dulous. — J. umbellata, Bojer Hort. Maurit. 229. Convolvulus parvi- 

 Jiorus, Vahl, Symb. iii. 29 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 413 ; Vatke in 

 Linnaea, xliii. 522. 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa : Bibe and Nyika country, Wakefield! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo ; Bagamoyo, Hildebrandt, 

 1267! 



Also in the Mascarene Isles, Tropical Asia, and North Australia. 



