Ipomcea.] xc. contolvulace.e (bvker axd rendle). 155 



silky hairs beneath like the leaves, and in the lower part and on the margin 

 with the characteristic yellowish hairs ; the inner similar but smaller. 

 Sepals subequal, shorter than the bracts, linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 lin. 

 long, densely clothed, especially in the upper part, with long stiffish 

 yellowish hairs which project beyond the tip. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 purple-violet or milky with a purple-crimson throat, twice as long as the 

 calyx (barely 2 lin. long) ; midpetaline areas bearing long stiffish hairs on 

 the upper part of the limb which project in a tuft at the top of the 

 lobes. Capsule small, glabrous, 2 -celled. Seeds 4, with a short brown 

 pubescence. — Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 183, xxviii. 31 ; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 731 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 199. 



Wile Land. Nubia, Kordofan, Sennaar, Husson (teste Hallier f.). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Heudelot, 146 ! Gambia : Ingram ! Park ! 

 Gold Coast : Krepe Plains, Johnson, 544 ! Cape Coast Castle, Brass ! Lagos, 

 Rowland ! Northern Nigeria : confluence of the Niger and Benue (Chadda) Rivers, 

 Barter ! 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Kisantu, Gillet, 66. Boraa, Dupuis • 

 and without precise locality, Smith ! Cabra ! Angola : Ambriz, at Quizembo, 

 Welwitsch, 6197! Cazengo; River Lninha, on the way up to Mount Muxaulo, 

 Welwitsch, 6198 ! Golungo Alto ; Bango and Canaulo, Wehvitsch, 6199 ! Pungo 

 Andongo, Welwitsch, 6200 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Mtowa, Descamps. Central Congo : 

 Ukoti, Wilwerth. Manganga, Demeuse ; between Nyangwe and Kimbundo, Pogge, 

 989 ; Bolama, Pogge, 1186. 



49. I. velutipes, Welw. ex Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 175. 

 Perennial. Stems climbing, the barren shoots covered with a thick 

 pale straw-coloured tomentum, the flowering almost glabrous. Leaves 

 long-petioled, cordate-ovate, acuminate, entire, 4-6 in. long and nearly 

 as broad, rather smaller on the flowering branches, those of the barren 

 shoots more or less thickly tomentose on both sides, those of the flower- 

 ing shoots only slightly hairy on the veins. Peduncles robust, longer 

 than the leaves ; flowers subcapitate ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, the 

 outer largest, |--1 in. long, thinly shortly hairy on the back, margin 

 glandular and shortly ciliate. Sepals similar in shape to the bracts, 

 rather more pilose, 5 lin. long. Corolla inf undibuliform-campanulate, 

 fugacious, lh in. long, rose-red on the outside, inside (especially in the 

 lower half) a deep shining blood-purple. Capsule globose, thin-walled, 

 hairy, about 3 lin. in diam., 4-valved. Seeds shortly hispid, hairs 

 brown. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 735. /. Verdickii, De Wild. 

 Etudes El. Katanga, 113, t. 3, figs. 9-16. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; Zengas do Queta and Queta 

 Mountains, Welwitsch, 6142 ! 6226 ! 6227 ! 6228 ! 



50. I. chsetocaulos, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 133. Stems 

 long, climbing, clothed with spreading golden-yellow bristly hairs. 

 Leaves suborbicular, long-petioled, cordate, acuminate, angled, 3| in. 

 long and about 3 in. broad, densely strigose and yellowish-green above, 

 pallid and less hairy beneath ; petiole up to 4 in. long. Flowers in 



