184 xc. convolvulace^: (baker and rendle). [Ipomosa. 



Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia; Buluwayo, Sand, 273 ! 



" A handsome plant. Climbs over trees of 20 ft. or so in height." — R. F. Rand. 

 Perhaps not distinct from J. verbascoidea, Choisy. 



113. I. Bakeri, Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 85. An erect under - 

 shrub ; branchlets slender, terete, woody, clothed with white pubes- 

 cence. Leaves distinctly petioled, elliptic-oblong, with undulate 

 margin, broadly rounded or subtruncate at the base, 2^—3^ in. long, 

 moderately firm, green and glabrous above, coated beneath with per- 

 sistent short white tomentum. Flowers solitary on very short 

 peduncles. Calyx softly tomentose, i in. long ; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 

 much imbricated. Corolla pallid, nearly 3 in. long, glabrous outside ; 

 lobes very small. — /. discolor, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 69, not of 

 G. Don. 



Mozamb. ©1st. British Central Africa : Urungu ; Abercorn, Carson, IS ! 



114. I. lukafuensis, Be Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 113, t. 2, Jigs. 

 1-10. A climber ; stem subterete, hairy. Leaves broadly oval, 

 obtuse, apex apiculate or emarginate, base more or less cordate, 2h to 

 nearly 3| in. long, and 2J in. broad, clothed with short hairs on the 

 upper surface, white tomentose on the lower, on which the nervation is 

 rather prominent ; petiole 1^-2^ in. long, shortly hairy like the peduncle. 

 Peduncle shorter than the leaf, few- (up to 3-) flowered, bearing at the 

 summit two large opposite bracts, which completely surround the flower- 

 bud in the young state ; bracts at the base of the pedicels obovate, 

 obtuse, 1 in long, tomentose on the outside, upper bracts about 7 lin. 

 long and half as broad, resembling the lower in shape and indumentum ; 

 pedicels hairy when young, up to about ^ in. long. Sepals subequal, 

 coriaceous wich scarious margin, about 5 lin. long and 4 broad, shortly 

 pubescent on the back when young, rapidly becoming glabrous. 

 Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, oh in. long, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 

 ovoid, 2-celled at the base, 4-celled at the summit. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Katanga ; Lukaf u, VerdicJc, 312. 

 Apparently near I. Gerrardi and I. Grantii, but distinguished by the blunt leaves, 

 and the large bracts, which completely envelop the buds when young. 



115. I. "Wakefieldii, Baker in Kev) Bulletin, 1894, 73. Perennial. 

 Stems slender, woody, finely pubescent. Leaves entire, broadly 

 elliptic with subcordate base to subovately orbicular with a more pro- 

 nounced base, finally 5-6 in. long ; throat cuspidate or emarginate, at 

 first reticulate beneath with lines of whitish tomentum on the main 

 veins and cross veinlets, finally green and finely pubescent all over; 

 petiole I5— 3 in. long. Peduncles short ; flowers few in a lax racemose 

 cyme; bracts obovate, § in. long, deciduous. Calyx \ in. long, thinly 

 covered with dull tawny tomentum ; sepals subequal, broadly oblong, 

 very obtuse, much imbricate. Corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, 3|- in. 

 long. Fruit and seeds not seen. 



Wile Land. British East Africa : Nyika country near Mombasa, W alee field ! 

 Very near the Cape I. Gerrardi, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5651, and /. albovenia, 



