Ipomosa.] xc. convolvulace.e (baker and rendle). 165 



Schahageime, 16,000 ft., Schimper, 368 ! near Gapdia, Schimper, 801 ! and without 

 precise locality, Salt ! Togodele, Ekrenberg . Nubia: between Atb a ra and the Red Sea, 

 Schweinfurth, 2173! Banks of the White Nile, Petherick ! Somaliland : Wagga 

 Mountain, Hammer and Sheik Pass, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! Hammer, Miss Cole ! 

 Soksoda, Gillett .' Harar, Hardegger ; Laku, Keller, 232 ; Vallota del Web, Riva, 

 1008; Milmilj Pica, 1060; Bunas, Riva, 1445; Darar, James Sf Thrupp ! and 

 without precise locality, Donaldson Smith ! Lake Marsabit, Delamere ! Uganda : 

 Man, 7000 fc, Scott-Elliot, 6851 ! British East Africa : Kikurnbuliu, Scott-Elliot, 

 6263 ! Majarini, near Mambrui, Hardegger cf Paulitschke. 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Hildebrandt, 979! German East Africa: 

 Lower plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson ! Bukumbi, on the Victoria N_\anz», 

 Sti'hlmann, 796; near Ujiji, Scott-Elliot, 8364! Salt River, Pospischil ,• and 

 without precise locality, Fischer, 420. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount 

 Mlanji, Whgte ! Rhodesia, near Buluwayo, Rand, 604 ! 



Also in Natal, the Mascarene Islands, India, Malaya, and Australia. 



70. I. fragilis, Choisy in DC Prodr. ix. 372 in an extended sense. 

 (Hallier f.) Stems very slender, twining, glabrous or sparsely pilose. 

 Leaves rather narrowly cordate-ovate, acuminate, apex mucronulate, 

 membranous, 1-lf in. long, barely 6-9 lin. broad ; petioles slender, a 

 little shorter than tne leaf. Flowers solitary or geminate, axillary, on 

 long slender peduncles which often exceed the leaves ; bracts small, 

 narrowly acuminate, 1 lin. or more long ; pedicels varying in length, 

 shorter than the peduncle. Sepals oblong to ovate, acute, 3 lin. long, 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy. Corolla whitish, or buff-yellow, funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous, f-1 in. long. Capsule glabrous. Seeds pubeiulous. 

 —Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 50 (var. glabra), and in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 95. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Ngaumdere, 4000 ft., Passarge, 160; Western 

 Lago-, Rowland. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia: Western Bongo, Heuglin, 38. Jur : Jur Ghattas, 

 Schweinfurth, 2348! 2365! Niamniam : Nabanibisso River, Schweinfurth, 3148! 

 Bahr-el-Ghazal ; Fort Fatiko, Baker, 79. 



Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : Burton ! Angola : Malange, Gossweiler, 

 1108! Buchner, 95 ; Mechow, 176; Huilla, Antunes, A 86, A 149; Newton, 129. 

 German S .uth-west Afrlci: Damaraland: Rehmann ,■ Hereroland : Otyimbingue, 

 Schinz, 2060 partly; from Walfisch Bay to Okahandya and Otyitambi, Luederitz; 

 Osliando, Schinz ■ Okombahc, Guerich, 54. 



Tar. pubescens, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 51. Leaves (at any rate the 

 younger) densely or laxly adpressed pubescent beneath or on both surfaces. Stems, 

 petioles, peduncles, pedicels and sepals patulous-hirsute. — I. ofra, Choisy in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 380 . I. longipes, Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 246. I. inconspicua, Baker 

 inKew Bulletin, 1894, 71. 



Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand ; Rehoboth, 

 Fleck, 524. Hereroland : Otyimbingue, Schinz, 2060 partly ; between Kinsep and 

 Fallgrass, Fleck, 409 ; Kurumanas, Fleck, 554. 



South Central. On the Kuito River, between Kutue and Sobi, 4000 ft,, 

 Baum, 754 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Lower plateau north of Lake Nyasa. 

 Thomson ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland : Mount Mlanji and Znnba, Whgte! 

 Xakalambe, Buchanan, 179 ! Rhodesia: Buluwayo, Rand, 603! Salsbury, Mrs. 

 Evelgn Cecil, 75 ! Matabeleland, Oates ! 



