144 xc. convolvulace^: (baker and bendle). [Ipvmcea. 



long, f-lf in. broad, entire, obtuse or eniarginate, base shallowly 

 cordate to subtruncate, thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent 

 beneath, especially on the nerves ; petiole from |— 2 in. long, very 

 pubescent, like the stem and peduncle. Peduncle J-l|in. long ; flowers 

 few, capitate ; bracts ovate, foliaceous, persistent, covered on the back 

 and margin as are the sepals, with the characteristic yellowish 

 hairs. Calyx h in. long ; sepals acute, outer ovate, inner narrower. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, more than 1 in. long, purple, midpetaline areas 

 sparsely pilosulose. Fruit and seeds not seen. — Aniseia fulvicaulis, 

 Hochst. in herb, ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 74 ; Choisy in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 431. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 270 ! and 

 •without precise locality, Parkyns ! British East Africa : Gopo Lai Maru, 

 Gregory 1 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanji, Whyte I 



24. I. hypoxantha, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 128. Peren- 

 nial. Stems from a woody rootstock, climbing, clothed, like the leaves, 

 with short adpressed yellow pubescence. Leaves shortly petioled, cordate- 

 oblong, obtuse or mucronate, nearly ljrin. long, 1 in. broad, glabrescent 

 above, densely clothed with short yellow hairs beneath. Peduncle 

 1-fiowered, nearly 1 in. long; bracteoles a little below the calyx, small, 

 subulate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, minutely hoary, puberulous, 4 

 lin. long ; outer rather broader. Corolla above 1 in. long, entire, thinly 

 hairy. — /. fulvicaulis, var. depauperated, Hallier f. in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. xxxvii. 93. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Lunda; Mussumba, Pogge, 334. 



Apparently a distinct species, differing from /. fulvicaulis in the solitary 

 flowers, small bracts, and somewhat smaller sepals. 



25. I. hewittioid.es, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 127. 

 Perennial, with a tuberous rootstock. Stems prostrate or wide- 

 climbing, sparsely clothed like the petioles and peduncles with spread- 

 ing fulvous hairs. Leaves subcordate-ovate, acute, sometimes slightly 

 pandurate, becoming more or less oblong to oval with a short cordate 

 base in the lower part of the shoot, 1^—3 in. long, \-^\ broad, deep 

 green and glabrescent above, paler beneath, with prominent sparsely 

 pilose ribs, margins slightly sinuate and ciliate ; petioles 1 J—lf in. long. 

 Peduncles axillary, very short or long (varying in Welwitsch's specimens 

 from 1J— 10 in.), bearing several closely crowded flowers; bracts ovate, 

 acute, \-\ in. long and about \ in. broad, fringed with stiffish yellow 

 hairs, resembling and closely applied to the outer sepals. Sepals 

 diminishing in width from the outer to the inner, the two outer ovate, 

 the median lanceolate, the inner linear-subulate. Corolla pale red or 

 purple, with a lighter limb, 2 in. long, funnel-shaped above, tubular 

 below. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 733 ; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 

 1901, 14. /. andongensis, Rendle and Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 171. 

 /. crassipes, var. heioitlioides-, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 49. 



