92 XCx CONVOLVULACEH (BAKER AND RENDLE). [Convolvulus, 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, 403! 
Also in Northern India. 
7. C. Deserti, Hochst. d- Steud. in Herb. Un. Itin. 783; Steud. 
Nom. ed. 2,1. 408, name only. Suffruticose. Stems slender, terete, 
spreading, somewhat sparsely hairy, with spreading or adpressed hairs. 
Leaves linear-oblong with tapering base to linear-spathulate, sub- 
sessile, the lower reaching 1} in. long in the African specimen, 
usually shorter, blunt, adpressed, hairy on both surfaces, midrib promi- 
nent beneath. Flowers borne in the leaf-axils along the whole length 
of the stems. Peduncles slender, hairy like the stem, about 6 lin. long 
in the African plant and bearing 1 or 2 closely aggregated flowers. 
Bracts narrow, linear, about 3 lin. long, bearing (like the sepals) ad- 
pressed and spreading pale brownish hairs. Sepals ovate, coriaceous 
below with acuminate green herbaceous tips, subequal, 3 lin. long. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, 7 lin. long in the African plant, pallid with 
darker pubescent midpetaline areas.—C. microphyllus, Choisy in DC. 
Prodr. ix. 402, partly. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Sea-coast to between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent ! 
The African specimen consists of asmall young plant with a few spreading stems, 
the main one reaching 6 in. long. 
Also in Arabia. 
8. CG. littoralis, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 519. Stems several, 
ascending up to 1 ft. long, simple, filiform, slightly pilose. Leaves distant, 
small, oval-oblong, obtuse, subsessile, about 4 lin. long and half as 
broad, on the short sterile shoot larger, narrowly oblong, narrowed to 
the base, 1 in. long, including the short stalk, pilose on both sides, grey- 
green. Flowers in small globose sessile or shortly peduncled clusters 
down the stem, surrounded by many oblong, acute, silky bracts, which 
are about as long as the calyx. Sepals narrowly lanceolate to oblong- 
acuminate, about 24 lin. long, very hairy. Corolla barely twice as long 
as the calyx, hairy outside. Seeds minutely tubercled.—Hallier f. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 99, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 229. 
C. spherophorus, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 221. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near Lasgori, Hildebrandt, 865b; and without 
precise locality, Miss Cole ! 
9. C. subspathulatus, Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 520, An under- 
shrub?, clothed upwards with reddish, somewhat silky pubescence; 
branches elongated, about 14 ft. long, branched above. Leaves shortly 
petioled, subspathulate, about 6 lin. long up to 5 lin. broad, cordate ot 
subhastate at the base, very obtuse. Lower peduncles up to 6 lin. long; 
cymes involucrate, densely 1-3-flowered, scorpioid; bracts foliaceous. 
Sepals ovate, usually subobtuse, 2 lin. long, barely excveding 4 lin. 
broad. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, hairy outside. Capsule 
glabrous. Seeds black, glabrous, tubercled.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xvii. 100, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 226. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near Barava (Brava), Hildebrandt, 1312; Kirk ! 
near Faro River, Riva, 1713, 
