122 xc. convolvulace.e (baker and rendle). [Astroehlcena. 



4 lin. in diam. Seeds 4, black, glabi'ous. — Baker & "Wright in Dyer, 

 Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 69. Breweria malvacea, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise 

 Mossamb. Bot. 245, t. 87. 



Mozamb. Eist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! 

 Stewart ! Expedition Island, KvrJc ! Inhambane and Rio de Sena, Peters ! 30-40 ft. 

 above the Inagua, Usambusha, Scott / British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, 

 Buchanan, 31 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



Var. epedunculata, Eendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 59. Dwarf, tufted. Branches 

 short, 2-6 in. long, crowded. Leaves ovate, small, not exceeding 1 in. in length and 

 a little over 6 lin. in breadth. Cymes sessile, 2- to 4-flowered. Sepals lanceolate 

 to bluntly ovate, barely exceeding 3 lin. long. Corolla bright rose-purple, If in. 

 long, and as broad at the mouth. 



IVTozamb. Dist. Rhodesia : Salisbury, Rand, 511 ! 



Var. parviflora, Rendle. Apparently a smaller plant, with leaves less than 2 in. 

 long. Peduncles 9 lin. long or less. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3 lin. long. Corolla 

 purplish, 1^ in. long. 



Nile Land. British East Africa: Taruma (Duruma ?) ; near Tulpanga, 

 Kassner, 437 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Lower plateau north of Lake Nyassa, 

 Thomson ! 



8. A. Stuhlmanni, Hallierf. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 386. An erect 

 or trailing herb, with the habit of an Althaa, and a verbascoid stellate 

 indumentum. Stem stout, simple, floccose, as are the petioles and 

 peduncles, with dense ochraceous indumentum. Leaves ovate, 4-5 in. 

 long, 3 in. broad, obtuse or subacute, entire or more or less repand- 

 dentate, base variable, broadly cuneate, truncate to shallowly cordate, 

 dull green above, with tufts of stellate hairs, densely cinereo-tomentose 

 beneath with ochraceous tomentum on the conspicuous veins. Flowers 

 in few- to many-flowered corymbs forming an ample panicle; peduncles 

 robust, rigid, spreacling-erect, longer than the petioles (up to 2 in. long) ; 

 pedicels short, subumbellate, subclavate, about 4 lin. long ; bracts and 

 bracteoles small, cymbiform, caducous. Sepals ovate, obtuse, three 

 outer larger than the two inner, 4-5 lin. long, and about half as broad, 

 cinereo-tomentose on the back. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 1|- in. 

 long and 2 in. broad ; tube deep purple, limb paler. Filaments unequal, 

 dilated and pubescent at the base, Capsule globose, dirty brown, 

 glabrous. Seeds 4, black, papillose. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria, Gosling ! 



Mozamb. Dist,. German East Africa: Uk were, 150 ft. StuJdmann, 8383; 

 Uluguru foothills, Stuhlmann, 8683 ; east of Mtondwe 1300 ft., Stuhlmann, 8279 ; 

 Mikumi, 1700 ft., Goetze, 393. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Nyika 

 plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte ! Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 

 Milanji, Whyte, 108 ! Chiromo, Scott-Mliot, 8689 ! and without precise locality, 

 Buchanan, 72 ! Rhodesia : Mashonaland, near Umtali, Cecil, 35 ! 



Var. parviflora, Rendle. Flowers smaller, with ovate to ovate-oblong sepals 

 3 lin. long. Corolla (withered) apparently not exceeding I in. in length. 



Nile Land. Uganda : Mpororo, 3000 ft., Scott-Mliot, 8044 ! 



