172 xc. CONVOLVULACE.E (baker asd rendle). \Ipomo&a. 



or minutely cuspidate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 1|— 2 in. long, white 

 with a purple eye. Capsule globose, glabrous, 6 Jin. in diam. Seeds 

 shaggily tomentose. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 738. /. carnosa, 

 R. Br. Prodr. 4S5. /. acetoscefolia, Poem. & Schultes, Syst. iv. 246. 1. 

 humilis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 267 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 390. 

 /. incurva, G. Don, I.e. 266. /. littoralis. Boiss. Fl. Or. iv. 112 ; 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 144 and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 376. 

 Batatas acetoscefolia and B. littoralis, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 337-8. 

 B. incurva, Baath. in Hook. Niger PI. 461. Convolvulus littoralis, 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 924. C. incurvus, Schurnach. & Thonn. 

 Beskr. Guin. PI. 99. 



Upper Guinea. 8enegambia : Perrottet, 519 partly ! Sierra Leone : Don ! 

 Morson ! Smeathman ! Scott-Elliot, 4109! Gold Coast, Kranse, Cape Const. 

 Castle, Brass! Togo: near Lome, Warneclce, 56! Lagos, Moloney! Southern 

 Nigeria : Nun Iliver, Vogel, 35 ! Fernando Po and shore of the River Brass, Barter, 

 23 ! 1843 ! Cauieroons : Batanga, Dinklage, 617. 



Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island, Don ! Moller. Lower Congo : Banana, 

 Monteiro ! Loango, Soyaux, 13! Angola: Ambriz, Welwitsch, 6251! Libong. , 

 Welwitsch, 6248 ! be:ween Cape Pahriieria and mouth of the River Cuanza, Wel- 

 witsch, 6250 ! and near Tanga, Welwitsch, 6249 ! Loanda, Gossiveiler, 7 ! 



Widely spread on sandy sea-shores in the warmer parts of the world, 



87. I. repens, Lam. Illustr. i. 467 ; Encycl. vi. 18. Perennial, 

 glabrous. Stems hollow, woody, trailing very widely and binding the 

 sand. Leaves firm, cordate-orbicular, glabrous, 3—6 in. in diam., obtuse, 

 emarginate; petiole 1-4 in. long. Peduncles 1-4 in. long; cymes 

 few- or many-flowered ; pedicels |— 1J in. long; bracts ovate, minute. 

 Calyx 6 lin. long; sepals elliptic, apex rounded, minutely mucronate ; 

 two outer much shorter than the inner. Corolla funnel-shaped, bright 

 red, 2-3 in. long ; limb 2 in. in diam. Capsule globose, glabrous, 6 lin. 

 in diam. Seeds glabrous, as large as a pea. — I", asarifolia, Poem. & 

 Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 251 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 466 ; Kotschy 

 et Peyr. PI. Tinn. 23, t. 10; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 115; 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 145 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 738. /. Beladamboe, Roem. & Schultes, I.e. 233; C. B. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 209. I. ruyosa, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 350. 

 /. urbica, Choisy, I.e. 349. /. Vogelii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 

 71. Convolvulus asarifolius, Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. iii. 562. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal: Schotte ! B runner ! Heuclelot, 218! Roger! 

 Interior of Western Lagos, Rowland ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 841 ! 

 Kuka, on Lake Chad, Vogel! Bornu, Oudney ! 



Wile Land. Sennar ? Kotschy, 283 ! Darfur, Purdy. Jur, Henglin ! 

 Banks of ihe Nile, Spelce Sf Grant ! Schweinfurth, 930 ! Muriel, 47 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto, River Delatnboa, Welwitsch, 6202 ! 

 6148! 



Also in the Cape Verde Islands, Tropical Asia, and Tropical America. 



88. I. biloba, Forsk. Fl. uEgypt.-^irab. 44. Perennial, glabrous. 

 Stems stout, woody, hollow, creeping widely on the sands of the seashore. 

 Leaves suborbicular, firm, rarely elliptic to ovate, glabrous, 2-Q in. 

 long, conspicuously emarginate at the apex, cuneate, truncate or some- 



