Aslrochhena.] xc. convolvulace.e (baker and rexdle). 125 



obovate and obtuse below, and from 3 to 4|- in. long and l|-2 in. broad, 

 apex weakly mucronate, margin more or less repand above the base ; 

 shortly tomentose on both surfaces when young, sparsely pubescent 

 when older, with shortly tomentose regularly pinnate veins ; petioles 

 less than G lin. long, hairy like the stem. Peduncle short, about 3 lin. 

 long (fruiting peduncles on the lower part of the stem reach 1^ in.), 

 bearing few- (generally 3-) flowered cymes; pedicels separate from orvery 

 shortly adnate to the subtending leaf, very short, 2 lin. long, reaching 

 nearly 6 lin., but not recurved in the fruit. Sepals ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, subobtuse to acute, 3 lin. long, dorsally pubescent like the 

 bracts and young leaves. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple with paler 

 limb, about 1 in. long. Capsule globose, 2 J- lin. in diam. ; pericarp 

 glabrous, brown, brittle. Seeds 4, brown, thinly pubescent. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Muoa, Ktissner, 55 ! near 

 Bote (Buiti ?). Kassner. 93 ! Gondoonn, Kassner, 113 ! 



15. A. hyoscyamoid.es, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 121. A 

 robust, erect, perennial herb. Stems sparsely clothed with whitish 

 stellate hairs below, densely above. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly 

 elliptic-oblanceolate, 2-4 in. long, subacute, with a long weak mucro, 

 narrowed to the base, margin repand above the middle sometimes with 

 one or two more or less prominent teeth, distinctly petioled, thin, dull 

 green and obscurely stellately pubescent above, densely clothed with 

 soft greyish-white stellate pubescence beneath. Peduncles up to about 

 1 in. long, stiffly erecto-patent, few-flowered ; pedicels short ; bracts 

 minute, with dense stellate pubescence like the sepals. Sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 4-5 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, about 9 lin. 

 long; tube purple; limb pallid, glabrous. Capsule globose, glabrous, 

 4 lin. in diam. Seeds rough, sparsely hairy. — Convolvulus hyoscya- 

 moides, Yatke in Linnaea, xliii. 520. 



Nile Land. British. East Africa: Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6300! between 

 Mombasa and Lamu, Whytel Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1942! Kirk! Kyika 

 Country, Wakefield ! 



Mozamb. Dist. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! German Ea?t Africa : lower 

 plateau, north of Lake Nynssa, Thomson ! Umba Valley, Smith ! Karagwe ; 

 Bukoba, StvJilmann, 3851. Usambara ; Mashena, Hoist, 8822 ! steppes on Ugweno 

 Mountain, VolJcens, 521 ! 



16. A. tubifiora, Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 228. A 

 frutescent herb, erect, densely clothed with minute stellate grey-white 

 verbascoid tomentum. Stems up to 1G in. long, robust, erect, 

 unbranched, terete, glabrescent below, and covered with a smooth 

 shiny paper-like cortex. Leaves cordate, acute, 3 in. long and as 

 broad, grossly and bluntly sinuate-dentate, herbaceous, palmatinerved 

 at the base, penninerved above ; nerves prominent beneath ; petiole 

 nearly as long as the blade. Peduncles axillary, solitary, l|-7 lin. long, 

 robust, terete ; flowers 3-5, umbellate, subtended by a pair of oblong 

 or ovate-lanceolate caducous bracts, up to 9 lin. long, marked on the 

 outside with several rather prominent parallel veins. Bracteoles 



