Ipomcea.] xc. convolvulace.e (baker and eendle). 161 



61. I. ficifolia, var. laxiflora, Hattier f. in Sitzungsber. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien. Math. iVaturtoiss. CI. cvii. 48. Stem climbing, 

 clothed with spreading golden hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, 3-lobed, 

 reaching 3— 3-J- in. long, nearly as broad, with longish adpressed hairs 

 above and white tomentum beneath, except on the veins which 

 bear longer adpressed yellow hairs ; petiole slender, shorter or some- 

 times longer than the blade, hairy like the stem and peduncles. 

 Cymes laxly many-flowered, much-branched, long-peduncled ; bracts 

 small, subulate, hairy. Sepals equal, linear-lanceolate, 3-4 lin. long, 

 clothed with golden hairs. Corolla rose-red, 2 in. in diam. Capsule 

 globose, 4 lin. in diam. Seeds pilose. — Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 35, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 230 (subvar. auriculata). 

 I. engleriana, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 333. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : in cold dense woods at Dadacci Uteei, Siva, 1208. 

 British East Africa : Liani, 400 ft., Kcissner, 338 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Kwa Msbuza, 2500 ft- 

 Hoist, S721 ! Bote (Buiti?) Kcissner, 88 ! Usaramo; Ukwere, StuUmann, 106. 



62. I. Kilimandschari, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 332. 

 Stem slender, climbing, hairy, hairs yellowish, spreading. Leaves long- 

 petiolecl, cordate-ovate, 2-4 in. long and nearly as broad, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, sometimes subobtuse and mucronate, crenate, 

 clothed with adpressed deciduous yellow hairs above and with 

 white floccose tomentum beneath ; petiole slender, about as long as the 

 leaf. Peduncle up to 3 in. long; flowers in small congested cymes; 

 bracts a little shorter than the sepals, lanceolate, bearing on the back 

 stiftish yellow hairs, flanks and margin glandular. Sepals lanceolate- 

 acuminate, under 6 lin. long, hairy and glandular like the bracts. 

 Corolla lh in. long. Buds hairy at the tip. — Renclle in Journ. Bot. 

 1901, 21. /. ficifolia, var. laxiflora, subvar. parviflora, Hallier f. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 35. 



Mozamb. Dist. German Ea^t Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5000 ft., 

 Yolkens, 577 ! above Morang (Marangu), Tat/lor ! 



63. I. pilosa, Sweet, Hort. Brit. eel. 1, 289. Perennial. Stems 

 slender twining, minutely hirsute with rather long spreading yellowish- 

 white hairs. Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, membranous, 2-4 in. long 

 and broad, palmately trilobed, green and thinly hairy above, covered 

 with thin white tomentum beneath ; petiole as long as or longer than 

 the leaf, slender, hairy like the stems and peduncles. Peduncles 

 slender, 1-2 in. long; flowers laxly cymose ; pedicels short; bracts 

 small, shorter than the sepals, persistent, ovate-acuminate with auricled 

 base, minutely hirsute with the characteristic yellow hairs and glandular 

 margins. Calyx hairy and glandular like the bracts ; sepals ovate- 

 acuminate, 5-7 lin. long. Corolla purplish-white, funnel-shaped, 1 in. 

 long, the expanded limb under 1 in. in diam. Capsule globose, fragile, 

 hairy ; seeds glabrous. — Choisy in DC. Prodr, ix. 363 ; Wight, Ic. t. 

 837 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 735. /. dichroa, Hochst. in 

 PI. Schimp. Abyss, ii. no. 820; Choisy, I.e. 364; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 



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