Astrochlcena.~\ xc. convolvulace^ (baker and rendle). 123 



9. A. floccosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121. An erect 

 undershrub, li ft. high, clothed with stellate noccose tomenturn. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, subacute, slightly repand, up to nearly 4 in. long, 

 above 3 in. broad; nerves prominent beneath; petiole lh in. long. 

 Peduncles 1-flowered, above 1 in. long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 5 lin. 

 long, 2 lin. broad, Corolla funnel-shaped, lh in. long, probably red- 

 purple. Fruit and seeds not known. — Ipomoea Jioccosa, Vatke in 

 Linnrea, xliii. 512. 



Wile Land. British East Africa : Ukamba ; Kitui, Sildebrandt, 2758, ex 

 Vatke, 2754, ex Hallier. 



10. A. Kaessneri, Rendle. Erect; stem stout, woody, reaching 

 nearly 2 lin. in diam. in the small shoots which comprise the material, 

 densely clothed like the petioles and peduncles with a pale ferruginous 

 floccose tomentum, rather densely leaved. Leaves oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, 2—2^ in. long, f-lj in. broad, apex obtuse, base rounded to flat ; 

 sparsely stellately hairy above, stellately grey tomentose beneath with 

 prominent noccose subferruginous veins ; petiole generally less than 1 

 in. long. Peduncles axillary, 6-8 lin. long, more slender than the petioles, 

 generally 2— flowered ; pedicels barely 6 lin. long, reflexed after flowering. 

 Sepals oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-4 lin. long, 1 J lin. broad, blunt, midrib 

 prominent on the greyish stellate-tomentose dorsal face. Corolla 1^ in. 

 long, funnel-shaped, purple, tube darker, limb pale, with well-marked 

 areas. Fruit not present. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Saui, Kassner, 735 ! 



11. A. Grant i.i, Rendle. Stems stout, herbaceous, erect, hollow, 

 about 1|- ft. high, 3 lin. thick, apparently few from a short woody erect 

 rootstock which passes below into the long woody tap-root, covered in 

 the younger portion with a dense subferruginous stellate tomentum 

 which becomes sparser below. Leaves broadly elliptic in outline, 3-4 

 in. long by 2-2^- in. broad, apex blunt, often inconspicuously mucronate, 

 base generally broadly cuneate, margin above the base repand ; upper 

 surface sparsely stellate- hairy, lower stellate-pubescent becoming tomen- 

 tose on the conspicuous nerves ; lateral nerves pinnately ascendo-patent ; 

 petiole tomentose like the stem, 1 in. or less in length. Peduncle 

 generally long, reaching 3A in., generally free from the leaf, the latter 

 sometimes carried up a very short way, tomentose like the stem, 

 bearing a subcapitate cyme of generally about 6 flowers suspended 

 by a pair of linear to linear-oblanceolate dorsally pubescent bracts 

 about 7 lin. long. Pedicels short, 3 lin. or less long; bracts shorter 

 and narrower than the leaves. Sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 

 acute, 5-6 lin. long, pubescent like the bracts, the inner slightly shorter 

 and glabrescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple with lighter limb, about 

 14 in. long, glabrous. Capsule subglobose, erect, about 3 lin. broad; 

 pericarp light brown, brittle. Seeds brown, shortly pubescent. — A. 

 malvacea, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 121 as to syn. Convolvulus 

 mcdvaceus, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 117. 



