IpomaiCl.] XC. CONVOLVULACE.E (BAKER AND RENDLE). 177 



Also in South Africa, Tropical Asia, and Australia. 



Var. malvce folia, Rendle. Leaves palmately 5-lobed : lobes short, serra'e, 

 median one larger than the lateral. — /. eoptica, var. malvcefolia, Hallier f. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xviii. 147. 



Wile Land. Kordofan, Pfund. 



Var. acuta, Rendle. Stems prostrate or climbing ; bracts larger, palmately 

 laciniate like the leaves, enveloping the calyx. — /. coptica, Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 110; 

 var. acuta, Choisy in DC. Proilr. ix. 384; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 47. I. 

 palmatisecta, Bojer ex Choisy. I.e. 352. 



Nile Land. British East Africa : Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor ! 

 between Mombasa and Lamu, Whyte! 



Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Bojer, Hildebrandt, 992 ! Blackburn ! Kirk ! 

 German East Africa : Usambava : Doda, Hoist, 2976 .' Portuguese East Africa : 

 Zambesi Delta ; Chinde, Webb ! Inhambane, Peters. 



Also in India, Ceylon and Ch'na. 



97. I. pulchella, Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 115, not of Wight. Glabrous ; 

 stern very slender, climbing, subterete. Leaves divided almost to the 

 base of the blade into tive segments, the two lower having a small lobe on 

 the outer side ; segments elliptic, f to 1 in. or more in length, blunt, 

 minutely apiculate ; petioles slightly longer than the blade ; a pair of 

 small leaves of an axillary bud simulate stipules as in /. palmata. 

 Flowers solitary, axillary ; peduncles filiform, shorter than the petiole ; 

 bracteoles ovate, minute ; pedicel shorter and much thicker than the 

 peduncle, clavate. Sepals thinly coriaceous, orbicular, subequal, edges 

 membranous, barely ll lin. long. Corolla rose-purple, 6 lin. long; 

 limb short, entire, spreading abruptly from a broad somewhat inflated 

 tube. Capsule about 4 lin. in diam. ; seeds pubescent with longer hairs 

 on the edges. — Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 386 ; Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. 

 Buiss. vii. 55, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 48, inch var. arachnosperma. 

 I. palmata, Kotschy in Herb. Un. Itin. 1841, No. 177, not of Forsk. 

 /. radicans, Bert, ex Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 387 ; Hallier f. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xviii. 148. 



Wile Land. Kordofan : Avashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 177 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola : on the River Coroca above Gargonto do Diabc, 

 1000 ft. alt,, Baum, 11 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa: Ugogo, Mnhalala, Stuhlmann, 396. 

 British Central Africa : Boruina, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 1083 ! 



Also in Tropical America, 



98. I. quinquefolia, Hochst. ex Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 

 147. Annual. Seems very short, trailing or ascending, glabrous, some- 

 times papillose. Leaves digitate, membranous, glabrous ; leaflets 5, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 1-lA in. long, narrowed from the middle to the base 

 and apex ; petiole as long as or longer than the blade, sometimes 

 muriculate. Flowers single, shortly peclunclecl ; bracts minute, sub- 

 ulate. Sepals oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous, subequal, the two outer 

 slightly shorter, 2h lin. long. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, white, 

 fugacious ; shortly lobed, about 1 in. long. Capsule globose, glabrous, 

 about 3 lin. in diam. Seeds dark brown, velvety. — Hallier f. in Bull 



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