Convolvulus.] XC. CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDEE). 91 
4. C. Hildebrandtii, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 519. Perennial, 
suffruticose ; stems virgate, pilose, terete, slender; branches very slender. 
Lower leaves congested into a basal rosette, bearing long hairs, ob- 
lanceolate, 1 in. long, repand or subcrenate, narrowed at the base into 
the petiole, shorter than the blade; lower stem-leaves narrowly ob- 
lanceolate, becoming rapidly narrower to linear as we ascend the stem. 
Flowers 1-2, rarely 3—5, laxly cymose, on a very slender silky peduncle 
2-3 in. long ; bracts short, acicular ; pedicels short, 2 lin. long. Sepals 
ovate, shortly acuminate, 1} lin. long, with a few adpressed hairs cn 
the back. Corolla three times the length of the calyx, slightly silky on 
the nerves. Capsule glabrous. Seeds black, pubescent.—Hallier f. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 97. C. filipes, Balf. f. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xii. 
(1883) 22. 
Wile Land. Somaliland : Coast plain, near Wodderi, Hildebrandt, 884! 
Also in Socotra. 
5. ©. microphyllus, Sieber ex Spreng. Syst. i. 611. Perennial, 
suffruticose. Stems slender, terete, densely tufted, spreading, more or 
less softly hairy. Cauline leaves generally less than 6 lin. long, rarely 
9 lin., oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, subsessile, narrowed to the 
base, hairy on both sides. Radical leaves narrowly spathulate, reach- 
ing nearly 1 in. long. Flowers 1-3 together from the upper nodes of 
the stem, generally nearly sessile, sometimes stalked, sometimes on 
short flowering branches. Sepals ovate, acuminate, about 24 lin. long, 
densely clothed with brown hairs. Corolla pinkish-white, funnel- 
shaped, twice as long as the calyx, hairy outside. Capsule small, 
globose. Seeds glabrous.—Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 402; Wight, Ic. t. 
1367; Franch. Sert. Somal. 42, forma glabrescens. C'. scindicus, Boiss. 
Diag., ser. 2, iii, 123, not of Stocks. 
Nile Land. Nubia: Berber, Kotschy, 354! Wady Selem, east of Berber, 
Schweinfurth, 2149; Dongola, Bhrenberg ; near Wady Allagni and Wady El-Arab, 
Letourneux, 280. Somaliland, Révoil. 
Also in Egypt, and extending through Arabia to Scind. 
6. C. pluricaulis, Choisy in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genéve, vi. 477. 
Perennial, suffruticose, ferruginously pilose. Stems slender, terete 
suberect or ascending or spreading, regularly leaved. Leaves linear- 
oblanceolate, nearly 1} in. long and shortly petioled below, becoming 
smaller, less than 1 in., linear-oblong, subsessile above the base, blunt, 
hairy on both sides. Flowers solitary or in pairs, shortly stalked or 
subsessile in the leaf-axils; bracts linear, less than 3 lin. long. Calyx 
densely silky hairy; sepals subequal, 24 lin. long, lanceolate to ovate, 
pallid and coriaceous, with green herbaceous acuminate tips. Corolla 
shortly funnel-shaped, pallid, 4 lin. long, hairy in bud. Capsule glo- 
bose, stramineous, less than 2 lin. in diam. Seeds 4, brown, unequally 
shortly pubescent.—Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 403; Hallier f. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. 98. See also Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 468, and C. B. 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 218. 
