162 xc. convolvulace^e (baker and rendle). [Ipomcea. 



Abyss, ii. 68; Vatke in Linnaaa, xliii. 513; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 95 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 345; Hallier f. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xviii. 13.6; Capua in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 225. /. 

 calophylla, Fenzl in Kotschy, PI. Nub. no. 93, and in Flora, 1844, 312. 

 /. arachnosperma, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. 588. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Roger ! Gambia, Ingram ! 



Nile Land. Nubia: Berber, Kotschy, 324; Sennar, Husson. Kordofati, 

 Kotschy, 93 ! 417 ! Pfand, 357, 507. Eritrea : Keren, Steudner, 939 ! East of 

 Amba-Tokhan, 1300 ft., Schweinf urth Sf Rivet, 605 ! Sainliar, Ragazzi, 295. Assaorta . 

 T err ac ciano Sf Pappi, 16; Zaga-Tata, Pappi, 2892; Tata-Farias, Pappi, 2955; 

 Ginda, Ragazzi, 137 ; Damas Valley, Pappi, 4130 ; Aidereso Torrent, Pappi, 4232 ; 

 Ambatocam, Pappi, 4044 ; Habab, Hildehrandt, 503 ; Shohos, Ehrenberg. Abys- 

 sinia : River Tacazze, Schimper, 1685 ; Schahagenne, 16000 it., Schimper, 362a; 

 and without precise locality, Schimper, 820/ Gallabat : near Matamma, Schwein- 

 ftirth, 2139 ! Upper White Nile, Hamier. 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, Maianga do Povo, Welwitsch, 6243 ! near 

 Quicuxe, Welwitsch, 6244 ! Loanda, Gossweiler, 786 ! 



Mozamb. XJist. Portuguese East Africa : Lup.ita, Kirk ! Shiramba, Kirk ! 

 Morambala, Waller ! British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth , 

 1088! Nyasaland; Kondowe to Karon ga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Shire River, Kirk ! 

 and without precise locality, Buchanan^ 1409 ! Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., 

 Mrs. Lugard, 223 ! 



64. I. pharbitiformis, Baker in Keiv Bulletin, 1895, 291. Stem 

 slender, climbing, pubescent. Leaves shortly petioled, cordate-ovate, 

 2-3 in. long, acute, entire, green and thinly pilose above, clothed with 

 a pale brown tomentum beneath ; petiole 4-8 lin. long, with a double 

 line of pale brownish soft spreading hairs. Cymes shortly peduncled, 

 5-6-flowered ; pedicels short, over 1 in. long ; bracts large, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, with white hairs on the back and glandular 

 margin. Sepals equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4-J- lin. long, hairy and 

 glandular like the bracts. Corolla blight red, lMn. long; limb scarcely 

 lobed, 15-18 lin. in diam. Stamens short, inserted near the base of the 

 corolla-tube. 



Mozamb. Hist. British Central Africa : near Lake Moero, Carson, 41 ! 



65. I. magnusiana, Schinzin Verhancll. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 

 xxx. 272. Stems slender, twining, thinly clothed with adpressed 

 whitish hairs. Leaves orbicular in general outline, 1., in. in diam., 

 green and slightly pubescent above, clothed with white tomentum 

 beneath (veins brownish), cut down to the base into 5—7 oblong or 

 lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, minutely cuspidate segments ; petiole 

 1-lf in. long. Flowers 1-2 on a long slender peduncle, longer than 

 the leaf and hairy like the stem ; bracts 2 lin. long ; pedicels very 

 short. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, barely 6 lin. long, densely 

 covered with short hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped, reddish, 6 lin. long. 

 Capsule globose, 4 lin. in diam. Seeds covered with a white pubescence. 

 — Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 135. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Osbiheke, Scliinz, 

 752 ! and without precise locality, Raines ! 



