Ipotilua.] XC. CONVOLVULACE/E (BAKER AND HENDLE). 183 



the bud, deciduous; pedicel shorter than the peduncle and, like it, 

 glabrous. Sepals subequal, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 

 nearly 1 in. long and about J in. broad, bearing a minute greyish 

 pubescence on the outside. Corolla white, narrowly funnel-shaped, 

 from a long broad cylindrical tube, 4 1 — 5 in. long ; midpetaline areas 

 bearing short white tomentum when young. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Uhehe; Iringa, 5000 ft., Goetze. 655. 



111. I. verbascoidea, Choisy in DC. Proclr. ix. 356. An erect 

 shrub, 3-5 ft. high. Stems stout, woody, terete, clothed like the 

 leaves and peduncles with fulvous or whitish woolly tomentum. 

 Leaves cordate-oblong, subacute or blunt with a short apiculus, entire 

 or slightly sinuate, 3-6 in. long, 2-5 in. broad, densely white- or 

 fulvous-tomentose beneath, especially on the raised veins, and bearing 

 a gland on each side at the junction of blade and petiole ; petiole stout, 

 1-1 in. long. Peduncle generally 3-flowerecl (flowers rarely solitary), 

 tomentose, shorter than the petiole (1 in. or less in length) ; pedicels 

 short ; bracts linear-oblong to linear-oblanceolate, 7-10 lin. long, two 

 lowest the hvrgest, tomentose on the back like the sepals. Sepals 

 chartaceous, elliptic, very obtuse, tomentose, equal, nearly -J- in. long. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, rose-purple, glabrous, 3-4 in. long ; tube broad 

 (|- in. in diam.) ; limb about 2| in. in diam. Capsule globose, glabrous, 

 -o in. in diam. ; seeds brown, \ in. long, densely covered with a fulvous 

 wool.— Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 151, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 xxxvii. 100 (excl. syn. /. dammarana); Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 

 i. 741. /. Elliottii, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 69. 



BTile Land. Bongo : Maschir Hills, Schiveinfurth, 4013 ! Jur : Jur Ghattas, 

 Schvieinfurih, 2014 ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Terrao da Sola, Welwitsc7i, 6111 I 6114! 

 between Mumpulla aud Xene, Welwitsch, 6115. German South-west Africa : 

 Hereroland ; Otjimbingue, Fischer, 102. 



IVKozamb, Dist. Matabelelaud, Elliott ! 



112. I. dammarana, Renclle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 36. Stems 

 erect or climbing, woody, covered like the leaves, flower-stalks, bracts, 

 and sepals with white tomentum. Leaves suborbicular to ovate, li— 4 

 in. long, about as broad, apex blunt, often apiculate, base rather 

 shallowly cordate, thinly clothed above, more densely beneath, with 

 white tomentum, veins somewhat conspicuously reticulated beneath, 

 bearing a gland on each side of the insertion of blade with petiole ; 

 petiole f-H in. kmg. Peduncles short, about h in. long, axillai) , 

 1 -flowered ; bracts linear-oblong to oblong, narrowing to the base, 

 about h in. long, reaching half way up the calyx. Calyx J in. long, 

 white-tomentose ; sepals chartaceous, elliptic, very obtuse. Corolla 

 purplish, broadly funnel-shaped, glabrous, 3 in. long. Stamens and 

 style reaching half way up the corolla ; filaments dilated and pilose at 

 the base. Fruit unknown. 



Lower Guinea. Damaraland, Een ! 



