7pom<:ea.~\ xc. convolvulace.e (baker and bendle). 147 



puberulous, above 1 in. long. Capsule glabrous. — Durand & Schinz, 

 Etudes Fl. Congo, 200. 



Nile Land. Niam-Niam : Gumango Hill, Schweinfurth, 2926. 



32. I. crassipes, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 40(58, var. shirensis, 

 Baker. Stem slender, wide-trailing, very hairy, hairs fulvous, long, 

 spreading. Leaves ovate, obtuse, 1-lf in. long, with long spreading 

 fulvous hairs on both sides, truncate at the base ; petiole \-\ in. long, 

 hairy like the stems and peduncles. Flowers solitary, rarely geminate, 

 peduncles erect, shorter than the leaves (barely 1 in. long), with a pair 

 of large persistent ovate foliaceous bracteoles a little below the calyx ; 

 pedicel about 2 lin. long. Calyx like the leaves hairy, 7-8 lin. long ; sepals 

 unequal, the outer ovate, subacuminate, the inner narrower. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, bright red, l|--2 lin. long. Capsule globose, 4 lin. in 

 diam., glabrous. Seeds glabrous. 



Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands 

 Buchanan, 89 ! Matope to Mandala, Scott - JElliot , 8443 ! 



Characterised by its long tawny hairs on stem and leaves, and the blunt 

 leaves. 



Var. hit'ta, Hallier f . in Baura, Kunene-Sambesi Exped. 346. Shoots including 

 peduncles, bracts and sepals densely covered with short fulvous to pale ferruginous 

 subadpressed hairs. Leaves short-stalked, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to ovate, with 

 a shallowly cordate base, 1^-3 in. long, \-lh in. broad, subobtuse; petioles 1-7 lin. 

 long. Peduncles short, scarcely exceeding the petioles, or longer, j-lf in. long; 

 bracteoles linear-subulate, barely 1-5 lin. long ; pedicel equal to the peduncle or 

 shorter, 1-6 lin. long, Outer sepals ovate with scarcely cordate base, 6-9 lin. long, 

 the narrow inner sepals slightly longer. Corolla li in. long, limb pale rose-colour, 

 throat deeper. 



lower Guinea. Southern Angola : Cliitanda River, below Goudkopje, 

 3800 ft., Baum, 151 ! Kubango River, above Kuimarva, 3300 ft., Baum, 454 



Var. ukambensls, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 46. An undershrub ; branches 

 prostrate, flexuose, clothed, but not densely, with short whitish spreading hairs. 

 Leaves oval or ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, base rounded, up to 1^ in. long and 6 lin. broad, 

 sparsely hairy, like the stem, on both surfaces. Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 

 about 1 lin. long; bracteoles linear to narrowly elliptic, g in. long, pedicel about 

 equal to the peduncle. Calyx 6 lin. long, hairy like the leaves, outer sepals ovate, 

 base scarcely cordate. Corolla li in. long; limb lighter coloured than the throat. — 

 I. ukambensis, Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 510. I. oblongata, Dammer in Engl. Prl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 331, not of E. Meyer. 



Wile Land. British East Africa : Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildebranclt, 2762 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, below Marangu, 3700- 

 4000 ft., Volkens, 2139. 



33. I. cardiosepala, Hochst. ex Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 429, not of 

 Meissn. Annual. Stems very slender, trailing or twining, often 

 branching, pilose, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves cordate-ovate, mem- 

 branous, thinly hairy, entire, 1-2 in. long, acute or obtuse ; petiole 

 about as long as the blade. Peduncles often short, but varying from 

 J-2 in. long, 1-3-flowered ; pedicels short, deflexed in the fruiting stage ; 

 bracteoles minute, lanceolate. Sepals 3-4 lin. long, the three outer ovate 



