98 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
multo brevioribus. Folia simplicia, integra, breviter petiolata, 
anguste oblongo-lanceolata vel fere linearia, 23-4 poll. longa, 
apiculata, utrinque plus minusve strigillosa. Flores purpurei, 
axillares, solitarii, breviter peduneulati, 14-2 poll. longi; sepala 
inæqualia, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, 6-8 lineas longa, colorata, 
extus longe pilosa; corolla anguste tubuloso-campanulata, ob- 
scure lobata, extus longe parceque pilosa; stamina leviter in- 
æqualia, inclusa, infra medium coroll: affixa, filamentis deorsum 
leviter dilatatis parce papillosis ; ovarium glabrum, 2-loculare, 
loculis 2-ovulatis ; stylus filiformis stamina vix superans, stigmate 
2-globoso. Fructus glaber, circiter 3 lineas diametro, pericarpio 
tenui indehiscente? ; semina ovoidea, nigra, glabra. 
Popah hill, Upper Burma, in grass, at 4000 feet. 
This differs from I. nana in its slender twining habit, loug 
narrow leaves, smaller flowers, and slightly papillose filaments. 
Calystegia hederacea, Wall.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 217.—Shan 
hills at 5000 feet. 
Afghanistan to China and Amurland, and southward to 
Penang. 
Convolvulus sinuatodentatus, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba perennis, pubescens, caulibus gracilibus prostratis 
internodiis quam folia brevioribus. Folia petiolata, crassiuscula, 
cordato-oblonga, 6-12 lineas longa, subobtusa, sinuato-dentata, 
hispidula; petiolus gracilis, 14-3 lineas longus. Flores parvi 
(eireiter 9 lineas longi ?, corolle marcide tantum vise), axillares, 
solitarii, pedunculis pubescentibus folia æquantibus vel exce- 
dentibus medio sæpius bibracteolatis; sepala æqualia, crassa, 
pallida, extus. pubescentia, late ovata, obtusa, circiter 3 lineas 
longa; corolla marcida extus hirsuta ; stamina inclusa, filamentis 
filiformibus glabris; ovarium glabrum, 2-loculare, loculis 2 
ovulatis; stylus inclusus, alte 2-fidus. Fructus deest. 
Shan hills plateau at 5000 feet ; common on dry rocky ground. 
The specimens have a starved appearance, and may be those 
of a species ordinarily of larger dimensions than those given 
above. 
Evolvulus alsinoides, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 220.—Shan 
hills at 4000 feet. 
Almost universally spread in tropical and subtropical countries. 
