Ipomcea.] xc. convolvulaceje (baker and rendle). 179 



Bagshawe, 151 British East Africa: Athi plains at Lanjoro, Gregory! Pospi- 

 chel; between Mombasa and Laura, Whyte .' 



lower Guinea. Lower Congo: by the Congo, .Smith! Stanley Pool, 

 liens, B, 82 ! Malela, Dewevre, 159. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 

 442 ! Biittner, 382. Princes Island, Welivitsch, 6208 ! St. Thomas Island, Moller, 

 64. Angola : Loanda : Gossweiler, 337 ! Icolo e Bengo, Welivitsch, 6205 ! 

 Libongo ; by the River Lefune, Welivitsch, 6206 ! Golungo Alto ; near Sange, 

 Welwitsch, 6207 ! Mossamedes; by the River Bero, Welwitsch, 6117! German 

 South-west Africa : Damaraland, Hen ! Grootfontein, Schinz, 21 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State: Nyangwe, Demevre, 1045. Coquilhat- 

 ville, Laurent ; Bolobo, Biittner, 383 ; Lualuba River, Pogge, 1233, 1243. Mtowa, 

 Descamps. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara, Moist, 566, 3127 ; 

 Karagwe, Stuhlmann, 1732, 1747. Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta, Scott ! 

 Rio de Sena, Peters. Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 353 ! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 

 land ; Fort Hill and Monkey Bay, Whyte! Shire Valley, Kirk! Buchanan! 



Also in Egypt, and South Africa, and widely spread in the tropics of both 

 hemispheres. 



Var. inclica, Rendle. Branches slender filiform. Peduncle short, usually 

 1-flowered ; flowers small ; calyx 2h lin. long ; corolla barely exceeding 1 in. long. 

 — I. cairica, var. inclica, Hallier f. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 231. 



Nile Land. Somaliland : between Gerlobrus and Hammar ; and without 

 precise locality, Miss K. Cole, in Berlin Herbarium. 



100. I. stellaris, Baker in Keiv Bulletin, 1894, 73. Perennial, 

 glabrous. Stems trailing widely, with long internodes. Leaves orbi- 

 cular in general outline, 2-3 in. long and broad, palmately cut to the 

 base into 7 entire narrowly linear-lanceolate segments, 1A— 3 lin. broad 

 at the middle, the central ones quite entire, the two outer usually 

 forked. Peduncle 2-3 in. long; cyme dense, many-flowered ; pedicels 

 short. Sepals glabrous, ovate, shortly acute, 3 lin. long. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, bright red-purple, 1J in. long. Fruit and seeds not 

 .seen. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : by the Rovuma River, Kirk 



101. I. dasysperma, Jacq. Eclog. i. 132, t. 89. An annual glabrous 

 herb. Stems slender, climbing, 3 ft. or more in length. Leaves up to 

 nearly 3 in. broad, doubly tripartite ; ultimate segments linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute ; petioles nearly as long as the blade. Peduncle shorter 

 than the petiole, 1-3-flowered ; bracts minute ; pedicels thicker than 

 the peduncle, clavate. Calyx 4 lin. long ; sepals coriaceous, elliptic- 

 ovate, obtuse, three outer broader, shorter, gibbous and tuberculate at 

 the base. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2 in. long ; tube cylindrical, violet ; 

 limb broadly spreading, bluntly 5-lobed, sulphur-yellow. Capsule 

 globose, 2-celled ; seeds 4, orange-coloured, covered with silky tomen- 

 tum. — Choisy in;DC. Prodr. ix. 386; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 

 148. /. tuberculata, Bot. Reg. t. 86. Calonyction diversifol'mm, 

 var. sulfureum, E. Morr. in Belg. Hort. 1857, 225 with fig., and Fl. 

 Serres, 2 ser. iii. 67, t. 1328. G. trichospermiom, var. diversifolium, 

 Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 346. 



