Ipovuea.] XC. CONVOLVULACE.E (baker and rendle). 159 



palmately 7-9-lobed, lh~'2h in. long, 1|-3| in. broad ; lobes narrowly oval, 

 narrowing to the base and subacute apex, rather thinly hairy on both 

 surfaces ; hairs stiffish, long, adpressed ; petiole about as long as the 

 blade, hairy like the stem and peduncle. Peduncles longer than the 

 petioles, bearing dense hirsute few-flowered bracteate heads. Bracts 

 foliaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, dorsally hirsute, especially in the 

 lower part ; the two outer the largest, up to 1 in. long, sometimes 8 lin. 

 broad, generally narrower. Sepals lanceolate, hairy like the bracts, 

 4-5 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, purple, about lj in. long; mid- 

 petaline areas bearing a few of the characteristic long stiffish hairs. 

 Capsule brown, glabrous. Seeds black, shortly pubescent. — Choisy in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 363 ; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 289 ; 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 134 ; and in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 34 

 (excluding subvarieties) ; var. africana, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 vi. 539 partly, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230. 



Nile Land. Kordofan, Pfund, 115 ! Somaliland : Berbera, Pobecchi-JBric- 

 chetti, 480. British East Africa : North of Momhassa, Whyte / Bibe, Wakefield ! 



Mozamb. Dist.. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1347 ! German East Africa : Usam- 

 bara; Mkulumusi Biver, near Tanga, Kiissner, 17 ! Amboni, Hoist, 2597 ! Usaramo ; 

 Dundo, Stuhlmann, 6450; Edge, Vogel, 151 Rovuma Biver, Metier ! Portuguese 

 East Africa: Mozambique, Peters. Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk 1 Brithh 

 Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1089a ! 



Also in Mauritius and Tropical Asia. 



Var. longibracteata, Vatke in Linnsea, xliii. 512. — Bracts very long and nan-ow, 

 linear tending to linear-lanceolate or ohlanceolate, strongly ciiiate below the middle, 

 the two outer f to li in. long, generally less than 2 lin. broad. Corolla large, more 

 than 2 in. long. — Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230 (as subvar.), in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxviii, 34. I. lophantha, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 134. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : Araccio, by the Biver Dana, Biva, 1279 ; and with- 

 out precise locality, Donaldson- Smith, 376 ! British East Africa: Taita ; Ndara 

 Plain, midebrandi, 2420 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ugogo forest, Hannington ! near 

 Masinde, Hoist, 3881 ; Usagara ; Mpwapwa, 3200 ft., Stuhlmann,, 233 ; and without 

 precise locality, Fischer, 419. 



Var. strigosa, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 34 (as subvaiv). — Whole plant 

 more densely hirsute ; stems robust, nearly 2 lin. thick, prostrate, widely creeping. 

 Bracts large, hairy like the leaves, the two outer and larger oblong-spathulate, over 

 1 in. long, 5 lin. broad in the upper half, the inner lanceolate. Corolla whitish-rose. 

 — Hiern in Cat. Air. PI. Welw. i. 735 (as var. africana, Hallier f.). 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; about Lopollo, in fields of maize and 

 Arachis hypogcea, Welwitsch, 6119 ! and without precise locality, Aniunes, 153. 



59. I. hederacea, Jacq. Collect, i. 124; Ic. t. 36. Annual. 

 Stems slender, hairy, twining, hairs spreading. Leaves cordate-orbi- 

 cular or cordate-ovate, acute, usually shallowly 3-lobed, membranous, 

 hairy, 1 J-5 in. wide ; petiole about as long as the blade. Peduncle 

 1-5-flowered, "about as long as the petiole ; pedicels short ; bracts 

 small, linear. Calyx hairy, f-1 in. long ; sepals lanceolate, with a long 

 narrow point, lower broader portion generally long-hairy, narrower 

 upper part sparsely and short-hairy. Corolla funnel-shaped, usually 



