Astrochltena.] xc. convolvulace.e (baker and rendle). 121 



and narrower. Corolla funnel-shaped, about 1 in. long ; tube deep 

 purple, 8 lin. long by 2 lin. in diam. ; limb pale rose-colour, glabrous, 

 with well-defined midpetaline areas. Filaments unequal, 2-4 lin. long. 

 Style 6 lin. long. Fruit and seeds unknown. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : near Lake Marsabit, Delamere J 



5. A. Phillipsiae, Rendle. A sarmentose perennial stellately 

 tomentose herb. Stems clothed with stellate white hairs. Leaves 

 petioled, broadly cordate-ovate, f-l|- in. long and broad, entire, thinly 

 tomentose on the face, densely clothed with white tomentum on the 

 back ; petiole shorter than the blade. Flowers solitary or in pairs in 

 the axils of the leaves on a short peduncle. Sepals subequal, narrowly 

 ovate-oblong, 4 lin. long, less than 1J lin. broad, obtuse, markedly 

 keeled, much imbricate, densely tomentose. Corolla lilac, 1^ in. long; 

 tube oblong, 9 lin. long and nearly 8 lin. in diam. ; limb spreading, 

 1\ in. in diameter. Stamens unequal. Style shorter than the longer 

 stamens, with oblong spreading lobes. — Convolvulus Phillipsicp^ Baker 

 in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 221. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Golis Range, Mrs. Lort Phillips! 

 A stunted form collected in the same locality has small le.ives (up to 9 lin. long 

 and broad), and flowers barely exceeding 9 lin. long. 



6. A. engleriana, Dammer in Engl. Pji. Ost-Afr. C. 380. Stems 

 erect, clothed with ferruginous stellate pubescence. Leaves ovate, 

 mucronate, rugose, undulate at the margins, thinly clothed with stellate 

 pubescence above, and dense white tomentum beneath, with ferruginous 

 main veins. Flowers in lax long-peduncled axillary cymes ; peduncle, 

 pedicels and calyx clothed with ferruginous stellate tomentum ; pedicels 

 about 6 lin. long, reflexed in fruit. Sepals elliptic, 4 lin. long, lh lin. 

 broad. Corolla about 1^ in. long, probably violet, funnel-shaped with 

 a cylindrical tube 6 lin. long. Stamens unequal ; filaments hairy at 

 the base. Stigmas rhomboid. 



Nile Land. Soudan : Fazokl, Kotschy, 537 ! Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schivein- 

 furtli, 1326 ! Moru : Neangara, Petherick ! Uganda : Kavirondo, Scott -Elliot, 

 7124 / Whyte ! near Mumias, Whyte ! 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Magubo, Stuhlmann, 

 7125! 



I have seen no authentic specimen of this species, and make the above deter- 

 minations with some hesitation. — A, B. R. 



7. A. malvacea, H oilier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121 (partly). A 

 robust perennial. Stems erect or ascending or decumbent, herbaceous 

 or woody, more or less densely clothed with short white pubescence. 

 Leaves ovate, entire or repand, 2-5 in. long, rounded at the base, dull 

 green, and slightly pubescent above, matted with whitish tomentum 

 beneath. Peduncles 1 in. or more in length, erecto-patent, 2-5-flowered ; 

 pedicels short ; bracts minute. Sepals elliptic to ovate, subacute to 

 obtuse, pubescent, 4-5 lin. long, 2-2^ lin. broad. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, purple, 1-|— 2 in. long. Capsule globose, glabrous, 4-valved, 



