Ipomoea] lxxxvii. convolvulace/e. 735 



13. I. elythrooephala Hall, f., I.e., p. 134. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A perennial, twining herb, sarmentose to a great 

 length ; leaves bright green above, clothed beneath with a snow-white 

 felt ; flowers of a rosy-violet colour, ornamented with white-felted 

 longitudinal folds. Up the stalks of Penniseta in reed-beds and at 

 the lower thickets near Trombeta, Camilungo, etc., plentiful; flowering 

 nearly throughout the year ; fl. and fr. March and April 1855. No. 

 6184. Flowers purple, with the folds of the corolla cottony and 

 whitish-glaucous. By thickets near N-delle, plentiful ; fl. and fr. 

 Oct. 1855. No 6185. An annual, widely climbing herb ; leaves 

 discolorous ; flowers IJ in. long, tubular-campanulate, rosy purple. In 

 a few spots about Canaula, etc. ; fl. June 1856. No. 6183. 



14. I. Pes tigridis L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 162 (1753) ; Hall, f., I.e. 

 Var. africana Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. p. 539 (July 1898). 

 HuiLLA. — A prostrate herb ; stems several, very long, sarmentose, 



rooting in every direction, pilose as well as the peltate-digitate leaves ; 

 corolla funnel-shaped, whitish-rosy ; stigma bicapitellate. In fields of 

 maize and Arachis hypogcea, about Lopollo, sparingly ; fl. 10 Jan. 1860. 

 No. 6119. 



15. I. involuerata P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. & Ben. ii. p. 52, t. 89 

 (1817?); Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. p. 135. 



GoLTJNGO Alto. — A perennial, widely climbing herb ; corolla 

 campanulate, purple-red or violet-purple, the folds whitish-glaucous 

 especially, towards the base of the tube. In the drier reed-beds 

 throughout Sobato de Bumba, not uncommon ; by thickets near 

 Quibixe, fl. May 1855 ; fl. and fr. July 1865. No. 6188. At the 

 Quibixe thickets ; fr. Sept. 1856 and June 1856. Coll. Carp. 770. 



Htjilla. — In fr., without foliage. No notes. Apparently this species. 

 No. 6123. 



Var. (8. albiflora (Welw.). 



Corolla campanulate, f in. long, white. 



Golungo Alto. — By the lower thickets near Canaula and Camilungo, 

 fl. April 1856 ; by thickets between Bengo and Sange, fl. end of April 

 1866. No. 6189. 



16. I. velutipes Welw. ex Eendle in Journ. Bot. xxxii. 175 (1894). 

 Golungo Alto. — A herb, climbing far and widely, remarkable for 



its densely cottony stem. At the outskirts of the forest near Zengas 

 do Queta ; without either fl. or f r. Deo. 1855. No. 6328. A perennial, 

 widely climbing herb.; the adult stems clothed with a white cottony 

 coat, the younger ones without cotton ; corolla IJ in. long, very 

 fugacious, funnel-shaped-campanulate, rosy outside, deep red-purple 

 inside especially from the throat to the bottom of the tube, varnished- 

 shining ; the limb sub-entire, 6-plicate ; stamens 5, 2 of them higher 

 than the rest, included ; filaments springing from the bottom of the 

 corolla-tube, adnate for a considerable length to the tube, then free 

 from it ; anthers rosy ; style filiform, a little shorter than the stamens ; 

 stigma globose-capitate. By damp thickets at the outskirts of the 

 forests among the Queta mountains, not common ; fl. middle of May 

 1856. No. 6227. Zengas do Queta ; fl. May and July 1866. No. 6142. 

 Queta mountains ; fr. August 1856. No. 6226. 



17. I. pilosa Sweet, Hort. Brit., edit. 1, ii. p. 289 (1827). 

 Convolvulus bicolor Desrouss. in Lam. Encycl. M6tli. iii. p. 564 



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