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NOTES ON AFRICAN CONVOLVULACEA.—II. 
By A. B. Renptz, M.A., D.Se. 
In working out the Convolvulacee in some African collections 
recently presented to the Department of Mee I find a few species 
which are new or otherwise worthy of record. 
Mr, H. T. Ommanney collected in the ay nag district ; 
Captain Barrett-Hamilton eighty to one hundre s fu rther 
south, across the Yes river. The specimens will be tound i in the 
National Herbariu 
Convolvulus moat sp.nov. EHrecta suffruticosa argenteo- 
sericeo- ca deo ramis fastigiatis teretibus, superne flexuosis; 
foliis parvis, ascendentibus, lineari-lanceolatis, obtusiusculis, breviter 
petiolatis ; floribus vix mediocribus, axillaribus, sepissime solitariis, 
pedunculis tenuibus, sepius folia haud sequantibus, bracteolis parvis, 
filiformibus ; sepalis coriaceis, ovatis acutis, tribus exterioribus quam 
interiora paullo longioribus ; corolla calycem duplo superante, in- 
fundibulare, quinquefida, areis mesopetalis extus sericeo-pubescen- 
tibus ; capsula truncato- Sa apice abrupte pungente, semini- 
bus compressis, atris, crustace 
Apparently a low shrub, the suberect branches arising in a tuft 
at the end of the decumbent a or main branch. Branches 
1-5 mm. in 
densely leaved from above the oe porntl2 pt on the lower 
older part the branches bear a short appressed silvery silky pubes- 
cence, which is specially dense on the young upper parts of the 
Shoots. Leaves 2-2-7 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, ime ole 2 mm. long 
or less, more "etal pabeadent on the lower s 
Peduncles 1-5-2 cm. long or paner a rind hed and cot 
& second aceite ntoirsetr ie 4-5m about the middle of the 
flower-stalk. Sep als pubescent, "Tike eo Take where expos 
1 em. long, the inner slightly shorter. Corolla 2 cm. long. * 
ments 6-5-8 mm. long, anthers 2°5 mm. Style branched at t . 
middle, narrow- linear, SB arms 5 mm. long. Disc at “a ) 
Ovary narrow. a Sn pungent, 4 mm. long, and as 
broad in the upper ee 
A very distinct aie a of the non-climbing shrubby set o 
genus. In its indumentum it resembles the eastern C. holosericeus 
Bieb., some forms of which also approach it in habit. : 
Ha Rhodesia ; at district, late Daaleber 1897. In 
woods, De: R. F. Rand, n 
SEDDERA CAPENSIS Haire: MINOR, Var. NOV. Suffrutex 
umilis, ramis sicut istiarads; bese et sepalorum pagina in- 
fera, albido-hirsutulis, pilis patentibas; foliis quam in typo minoribus. 
Branches to 15 em. long; not exceeding 6 mm. sty y 
3 mm. (rarely nearly 4 mm.) ours corolla barely 1 cm. long. ; 
gery ome from the species ‘by its hoary indumentum, an 
very small leaves. 
Hab. Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Orange River Colony, 
1901-2, Capt, G. CO. H. Barrett-Hamilton, 
