178 xc. CONVOLVULACE.E (baker and rendle). [Ipomoea. 



Herb. Boiss. vi. 545 (var. albifiora) ; Baker and Wright in Dyer, Fl. 

 Cap. iv. ii. 66. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia : Schimper, 321 ! Tacazze Valley, Steudner, 954. 

 Somak Efat, Roth (87) 422 ! 



"V ";ir. purpurea, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 546. A climber with elongated 

 whip-like branches, several yards long, internodes very long, np to 8 in. Corolla 

 bright purple. — Hallier f. in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensck. Anstalt, xv. 412 ; Baker 

 & Wright in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 66. 



lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland : between Ondonga 

 and Uukuambi, llautanen, 177, 179, 192, 193. Otjimbingue, Fischer, 103, 106. 



IVXozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; near Kaphei, Fleck, 

 186a; Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 218! 



Also in South Africa. 



99. I. palmata, Forsk. Fl. JSgypt.-Arab. 43. Perennial, glabrous. 

 Stems slender, twining, smooth or tubercled or muricate. Leaves 

 membranous, glabrous, 1-3 in. long and broad, cut nearly or quite to 

 the base into generally five segments, the lowest of which are sometimes 

 unequally bifid to bipartite ; segments from narrowly oval to lanceo- 

 late, varying from 1 lin. to nearly 1 in. in breadth, obscurely mucro- 

 nulate at the obtuse or subacute apex; petiole slender, as long as the 

 blade, sometimes muriculate ; base apparently stipulate from the 

 presence of a pair of small similarly palmati partite axillary leaflets. 

 Peduncles generally shorter than the leaves, bearing lax few- to many- 

 flowered cymes. Bracts minute, ovate ; pedicels about 6 lin. long. 

 Sepals coriaceous, ovate to orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2-3 lin. long. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, bright red-purple, l§-2 in. long. Capsule 

 globose, glabrous, 1-5 lin. in cliam., 2-celled. Seeds 4, dark brown, 

 shortly pubescent, angles bearded with long whitish hairs. — A. Bich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 72 ; Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 386 ; Benth. in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 468 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 115 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 95 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 740 ; Baker & Wright 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 66. /. cairica, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 287 ; 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 148. /. senegalensis, Lam. 111. i. 464. 

 /. tuberculata, Roem. & Schultes, Syst. iv. 208 ; Choisy, I.e. 386. /. 

 vesiculosa, P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 73, t. 106 ; Choisy, I.e. 387. /. Men- 

 desii, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. 584, No. 12. Batatas senegalensis, 

 G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 261. Convolvulus cairievs, Linn. Syst. ed. x. 

 922 ; Bot. Mag. t. 699 ; Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 96. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Brunner! Senegal, Roger! Leprieur ! 

 Gambia, Ingram ! Sierra Leone, Brass ! Scott-Elliot, 4082 ! Don ! Morson ! 

 Smeathman ! Vogel, 48 ! Liberia, Whyte ! Cape Coast Castle, Brass ! Lagos, 

 Millen I Roivland ! Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 51 ! and without precise locality, 

 Freuss, 767 ! 1105 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 54 ! Vogel, 40 ! 236 ! 



Nile land. White Nile, Schiceinfurth, 1056 ! Muriel, 50 ! Felhericlc ! 

 Speke Sf Grant! Bahr-el-Jehel, Muriel, QQ ! Soudan: Kordofan, Kotschy ! Pfund, 

 499 ! Khartoum, Schweinfurth, 777. Eritrea : Mount Idet, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 

 36. Abyssinia, Schimper, 1379 ! Fetit ; Shashago district, Wellby ! Somaliland : 

 bank< of the River Karaule, Riva, 886, 987 ; and without precise locality, Donaldson 

 Smith .' Uganda : Berkeley Bay, Scott-Elliot, 7091 ! Lake-shore at Musozi, 





