128 xc. contolvulace^: (baker and rendle). [Quamoclit. 



Species aboub 8, in warm and tropical regions, chiefly American. Introduced in 

 Tropical Africa. 



Leaves pinnatisect 1. Q. vulgaris. 



Leaves entire or angulate-lobed 2. Q. coccinea. 



1. Q. vulgaris, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 336. Annual, glabrous. 

 Stern slender, twining. Leaves pinnate, 1J-2 in. long, pinnatisect 

 with 8-10 pairs of linear spacecl-out segments, all but the lowest simple ; 

 petioles slender, shorter than the blade. Peduncles long, generally 

 much exceeding the leaves, 2-3-flowered ; pedicels about 1 in. long, 

 thickened in the fruiting stage. Sepals small, oblong, obtuse, mucronu- 

 late. Corolla scarlet, hypocrateriform ; tube cylindric, 1 in. long ; 

 limb patent, 9 lin. in diam. with 5 ovate subacute lobes. Ovary 

 completely 4-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Capsule ovoid, about 

 4 lin. high. — Hiern in Cat. Air. PL Welw. i. 743. Q. pinnata, Bojer, 

 Hort. Maurit. 224; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 154, and in Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss.v. 378. Ipomcea Quamoclit, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 159 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 244. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia, Whytel Lagos, Dawoclu, 85! 

 Southern Nigeria : Sapele district, Darker ! Fernando Po, Barter, 1265 ! Mann, 

 400 ! Cameroons : Akwa, DinMage, 153, and without precise locality, Braun. 



South Central. Congo .Free State : Bangala, 1000 ft., Sens, C, 130 

 Leopoldville, Duchesne. 



lower Guinea. Prince's Island : by thickets near Baixa de San Antonio, 

 wild, but not indigenous, Welioitsch, 6209 ! 



A native of America now widely spread in the Oid World. 



2. Q. coecisiea, Moench, Meth. 453. Annual, glabrous or 

 sparsely hairy. Stem slender, terete, twining or trailing. Leaves 

 cordate-ovate, acuminate, entire or angulate-lobed, H-3 in. long ; 

 petioles slender as long as or longer than the leaf. Peduncles about as 

 long as or longer than the leaves, few- to many-flowered ; pedicels 

 generally longer than the calyx ; bracts minute. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 

 with a subulate appendage, about 3 lin. long. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 scarlet, about 1 lin. long ; limb obscurely 5-lobed. Capsule globose, 

 3 lin. in diam. — Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 335 ; Hallier f. in Engl. 

 Jabrb. xviii. 154 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 742 partly. Quamoclit 

 phmnicea, Choisy I.e. 336. Ipomoea coccinea, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 160. I. 

 phcenicea, Koxb. Fl. Inch ed. Carey, ii. 92. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 3894 ! 3987 ! Johnston, 63 ! 

 Gold Coast, Brown, 387 ! Lagos, Roivland ! Fernando Po, Mann, 400 ! 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Weltvitsch, 6212 ! Moller, 65. 



Widely spread in the warmer parts of both hemispheres ; a native of Tropical 

 America. 



26. IPOMCEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. 870. 



Sepals herbaceous or coriaceous, very various in shape, often ovate 

 to lanceolate, or elliptic, obtuse or acute to acuminate or aristate, un- 

 equal or subequal, hairy or glabrous, persistent and often much enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla regular, usually funnel-shaped, rarely salver-shaped 



