<JlCSCUta.\ XC. C0NV0LVULACE.E (BAKER AND KEXDLE). 205 



obtuse, unequal ; sepals keeled. Corolla barely exceeding the calyx, with globose 

 tube and strongly reiiexed, short, bluntly ovate lobes. Stamens nearly as long as the 

 lobes. 



Wile land. Eritrea: Mount Glieden, near Massaua, 500-1000 ft., Schwein- 

 J'urth Sf Siva, 94 ! 



The species is widely distributed with numerous varieties in both Old and New 

 Worlds. Tbe brief description of C. ndorensis, Schweinf. (in von Hobnel's PI. 

 Rudolph See, 859), gathered by von Hohnel at 6000 ft. alt. in Ndoro, gives no 

 character by which it can be distinguished from C. ohtusiflora. 



6. C. blepharolepis, Welw. ex Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 

 743. A fleshy herb, with deep orange or saffron-coloured stems. 

 Flowers sessile or subsessile, forming lateral clusters, 3-4 lin. in diam. 

 distant or approximated in larger clusters ; bracts round-ovate, blunt, 

 apiculate, about li lin. long. Calyx and corolla 5-merous, pale yellowish. 

 Calyx hemispherical, about lj lin. in diam. Sepals free to the base, 

 closely imbricate, fleshy, orbicular-ovate, barely 1-| lin. long, obtuse, 

 dorsally thickened in the middle line and beneath the apex, margin 

 erosulose. Corolla exceeding the calyx ; tube shortly campanulate. 

 about 1 lin. long ; lobes spreading ovate, blunt, lh lin. long, margin 

 erosulose. Scales large, broadly oblong, fimbriate, embracing the styles 

 and thus closing the throat of the corolla. Anthers yellow, exserted ; 

 connective slightly produced at the tip. Ovary 2-cellecl, 4-ovuled ; 

 styles 2, long (ultimately 11 lin. long), exserted ; stigmas capitate. 

 Fruit not present. 



lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; near Pedra Cabondo, Welwitsch, 

 6140! 



7. C. Kilimanjari, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 ser. Bot. ii. 343. 

 Stems dark-coloured when dry, shorter than in C. hyalina. Flowers in 

 umbellate clusters subtended by a broadly ovate carinate blunt bract 

 barely 1|- lin. long, shortly pedicellate. Calyx broadly campanulate, 

 1 lin. or a little over 1 lin. long; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-partite 

 nearly to the base, closely imbricate. Corolla yellowish-white, broadly 

 campanulate, 1 J- lin. long, without any scales but foveolate opposite the 

 lobes, or small blunt scales sometimes present ; lobes very broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens short, inserted in the 

 sinuses ; filaments flattened. Styles subulate, shorter than the ovary; 

 stigma capitate. Capsule probably circumscissile near the base. — Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston, 86 ! 



8. G. hyalina, Roth, Nov. PL Spec 100. Stems very slender. 

 Flowers stalked, in few (often 3-) flowered monochasial cymes ; pedicels 

 1-2 lin. long ; bract ovate, acute, about 1^ lin. long. Calyx barely 1A 

 lin. long ; lobes ovate, acute, twice as long as the campanulate tube. 

 Corolla-tube campanulate, 1| lin. long, without any scales ; segments 

 narrowly ovate-triangular, tapering, spreading. Stamens much shorter 

 than the corolla-lobes ; filaments rather flattened ; anthers oblong. 

 Styles long, slender, extended to f lin. long ; stigma globose, capitate. 



