Ipomcea.li xc. convolvulaoejE (baker and rendle). 163 



Mozamb. Dist. Ngamiland : Kwebe, very common, Lugard, 119 ! 3400 ft., 

 Mrs. Lugard, 135 ! 



Also in Beeliuanaland. 



60. I. Lugardi, N. E. Brown. Stem twining, pubescent with 

 short and long yellowish spreading hairs intermingled. Leaves 

 petiolate, palmately 5-lobed, cordate at the base, green and pilose 

 above, densely white tomentose beneath except on the principal veins ; 

 lobes 1-2 in. long, 4-13 lin. broad, lanceolate, very acute or acuminate, 

 basal lobe either gibbous or produced into a short rounded lobule at the 

 base; petiole up to 2 in. long, hairy like the stem. Peduncles \ to 

 2^ in. long, hairy like the stem, 1-3-flowered ; pedicels very short. 

 Bracts lanceolate, tapering upwards into a long linear point, 4-8 lin. 

 long, with long spreading hairs like the sepals. Sepals lanceolate, 

 tapering into a long linear apex, 6-8 lin. long, the outer much broader 

 than the inner (up to 2 lin.), back and margin with the characteristic 

 long spreading hairs. Corolla funnel-shaped, \-\\ in. long and about 

 as broad, mauve-pink ; midpetaline areas Avell-defined, hairy. Fruit and 

 seed not seen. 



IVIozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., 

 Mrs. Lugard, 211 ! Eastern Bamangmito Territory ; between Henry's Vley and 

 Tamasetze, Holub, 1062 ! northern Kalahari, desert, near T'Klakane Pits, Lugard, 

 226! 



Var. parvijlora, Rendle. Bracts and sepals shorter and less hairy, the forme 

 not exceeding 4 lin., the latter 5 lin. long. Corolla 9 lin. long. 



Mozamb. Dist. Matabeleland, Elliott ! 



67. I. Eenii, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 21. Stem slender, 

 climbing, clothed with whitish (or when young yellowish) hairs. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, palmately tripartite ; lobes lanceolate or oblong 

 lanceolate, acute, the central one 1 in. long, 4 lin. broad ; upper surface 

 and veins beneath clothed with yellowish hairs. Peduncle 1 in. long, 

 1-2-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, placed near the calyx. Sepals lanceo- 

 late-acuminate, 6 lin. long, the three inner narrower than the two 

 outer. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1 in. long. Filaments 3-4 lin. long. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Damaraland, Hen ! 



68. I. kentrocarpa, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 70. 

 Stems slender, wide climbing, pubescent, as are also the petioles and 

 peduncles, striate and rugulose. Leaves cordate-ovate, entire, l-3jin. 

 long, |— 2f in. broad, acuminate, apex weakly mucronate, membranous, 

 glabrescent on the upper surface, lower surface paler and shortly 

 pubescent, especially on the main veins ; petiole as long as or shorter 

 than the blade. Peduncle slender, varying very much in length, some- 

 times very short, rarely exceeding the leaves, 1- to many-flowered ; 

 flowers laxly corymbose ; bracts and bracteoles minute, ovate to lanceo- 

 late ; pedicels thickening upwards, generally about 6 lin. long, glabre- 

 scent. Sepals small, subequal, ovate, obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, 

 glabrous, 2^—3 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1^-1| in. long, yellow 



