98 XC. CONVOLVULACEX (BAKER AND RENDLE). [Convolvulus, 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 73; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 350; 
Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 108; Capua in Ann. Bot. Istit. Roma, 
viii. 230. (-. cirrhosus, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. lxiv. name only. 
Nile and. Abyssinia: near Gennia, Schimper, 133! Addi Dschoa, 7000 ft., 
Schimper, 518! and without precise locality, Salt! White Nile, Petherick! 
Eritrea, 5000-8000 ft.: Assaorta, Pappi, 3506, 3445; Amasen, Terracciano & Pappi, 
330, 2442; Oculé Cusai, Pappi, 4404, 3823, 3851; Bogos, Terracciano § Pappi, 
2666; Mensa, Terracciano & Pappi, 1690, 1290. 
Widely spread in temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
21. ©. Schweinfurthi, Lngl. Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 348. 
Perennial. Stems twining, clothed with short brown hairs. Leaves 
ovate-hastate, 14-2 in. long, entire or obscurely crenate, rounded 
at the apex with a small mucro,finely pubescent ; basal sinus broad and 
open ; petiole 1-1} in. long. Flowers 2-5 in a cyme; peduncle long or 
short, 1-2 in. long; pedicels longer than the calyx; stout, more or less 
quadrangular in section; bracts minute, lanceolate, acute. Sepals 
orbicular-ovate, pubescent, barely 8 lin. long. Corolla scarcely twice 
as long as the calyx, hairy outside. Stamens half as long as the 
corolla, resembling that of C. farinosus. Capsule globose, barely 4 lin. 
in diam., glabrous, brown, Seeds 4, blackish, scabridulous.—Hallier f. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 105. 
Wile Land. Eritrea, 4500-6500 ft.: Mensa, Terracciano 4 Pappi, 10733 
Amasen, Terracciano & Pappi,179. Abyssinia: Anadehr, 7000 ft., Schimper, 
599 ! 
Scearcely separable from C. farinosus. 
22. C. farinosus, Linn. Mant. 203. Stems slender, climbing; 
pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, cordate-ovate, membranous, finely 
pubescent, 1-3 in. long, usually irregularly and shallowly crenate, with 
large rounded auricles, and a broad basal sinus. Cymes 1-6-flowered 
on long slender axillary peduncles; pedicels long or short; bracts 
minute, lanceolate. Sepals coriaceous, 3 lin, long, elliptic, cuspidate 
or acute, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Corolla 5 lin. long, white, 
with brown ribs, pubescent at the tip of the short lobes. Capsule 
globose, shortly pungent, 2} lin. in diam., glabrous, brown. Seeds 
blackish, scabridulous—Choisy in DC. Prodr, ix. 412; Hallier f. 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii.104; Baker & Wright in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. ii. 74. C 
cordifolius, Thunb. Prodr.35. C. Sprengelii, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix 
416. C. quinqueflorus, Vahi, Symb. iii. 31. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Haichello Kokob, north of Acrur, 5000 ft., Schwein 
Surth § Riva, 1104! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Holst, 672; Buchwald, 
579! Karagwe, 4000 ft., Stuhlmann, 1727. 
Also in South Africa and the Mascarene Isles, 
23. ©. fatmensis, Kunze in Flora, 1840, 172. Stems slender, 
diffuse, 1-2 ft. long, pubescent towards the tip. Leaves distinctly 
petioled, cordate-ovate, membranous, obtuse, 4-14 in. long, thinly 
pubescent, deeply and irregularly crenate with rounded auricles and 4 
