154 xc. convolvulacEjE (baker and rendle). \Ipomaia. 



46. I. abyssinica, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 94. Stems'stout, 

 woody, hollow, erect, nearly 2 ft. long and 2 lin. thick at the base, 

 densely hairy. Leaves ovate or the lower smaller ones more or less 

 oblong, ascending, entire, acute or the lower obtuse, 1^-3 in. long, f-1^ 

 in. broad, greenish and hairy above, whitish and more densely hairy 

 beneath ; petiole very short. Flowers in dense heads from the axils of 

 the upper leaves on ascending peduncles, 1-2 in. long, mixed with 

 persistent lanceolate very hairy foliaceous bracts, reaching 1^ in. long. 

 Sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, apex acuminate, the outermost 

 nearly 8 lin. long by 2h lin. broad, the innermost 6 lin. long by 1-i 

 lin. broad, densely covered on the back with long yellowish hairs. Corolla 

 campanulate-funnel-shaped, l-li in. long, and about as broad, tube and 

 throat deep red-purple, limb yellow, silky outside. Fruit and seeds not 

 seen. — Hallier f . in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 132 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 346. Convolvulus echioides, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. Ser. i. 

 jS"o. 351. Argyreia ? abyssinica, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 332 ; A. 

 Rich. Tent. FJ. Abyss, ii. 63. 



Wile Iiand. Abyssinia: Mount Seholoda, Schimper, 351 ! Amogai, 6800 f t., 

 Schimper, 371 ! near Tchehitchekenneh, on the River Tacazze, Quartin-Dillon. 

 Shireh, Quart in- Dillen, 64 ! 



47. I. Atherstonei, Baker in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 53. A shrubby 

 perennial. Stem trailing, angular, densely covered with short stiffish 

 tawny spreading hairs. Leaves ovate, entire, lf-2 in, long by about 1|- 

 in. broad, apex emarginate, base truncate or shallowly retuse ; surfaces 

 and margins bearing a dense tawny tomentum ; veins conspicuous on the 

 lower face ; petiole barely 6 lin. long. Peduncles hairy like the stem and 

 petiole, 1^ in. long, bearing a dense few-flowered cyme, which may be re- 

 duced to a solitary flower. Bracts lanceolate, subacute, about 6 lin. long, 

 tomentose like the leaves and sepals. Calyx 9-10 lin. long, outer sepals 

 ovate, acute, inner narrower. Corolla purplish 2-^ in. long ; midpetaline 

 areas pilose. Fruit and seed unknown. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa, lat. 23°, Chapman fy Baines ! 

 Also in Bechuatialand and the Transvaal. 



48. I. amcena, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 365. Annual. Stems 

 twining, densely clothed with fine soft spreading golden-yellow hairs, 

 associated in the younger parts as also in the petiole and peduncle 

 with short adpressed white hairs. Leaves entire, shallowly cordate, 

 ovate, acute, 1^-3-i in. long, §-2 in. broad, green and slightly hairy 

 above, densely clothed with long adpressed whitish silky hairs beneath, 

 and on the veins and margin with longer yellow hairs; petiole i-3 in. 

 long, densely hairy like the young shoot and peduncles. Peduncles 

 exceeding the petiole of the subtending leaf, but generally shorter than 

 the leaf. Flowers in a densely hairy cymose head ; bracts persistent, folia- 

 ceous, the outer bluntly linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6-8 lin. long, 

 sometimes nearly 1| in. in the fruiting stage, clothed with adpressed white 



