Convolvulus.| XC. CONVOLVULACEE® (BAKER AND RENDLE). 99 
broad basal sinus ; petiole often as long as the blade. Flowers 1-2 on 
short sparsely pubescent axillary peduncles, 9 lin. long or shorter ; 
bracts short, filiform. Sepals subequal, 24 lin. long, coriaceous, 
obovate, with rounded apex; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Corolla 
less than 6 lin. long, hairy outside, white with brown stripes. Capsule 
globose, 3 lin, in diam. Seeds glabrous.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. 108. 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Pfund. 
Also in North Africa and Arabia. 
24. C. Kilimandschari, Hngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 348. 
Perennial. Stems climbing, clothed, like the leaves and peduncles, 
with long hairs. Leaves oblong, 2-3 in. long, obtuse with a mucro, 
deeply cordate at the base; petiole 6 lin. long. Peduncles many- 
flowered, longer than the petiole; bracts ovate, acute, scariose. Sepals 
ovate, mucronate, scariose, densely pilose, 4 lin. long. Corolla broadly 
campanulate, above 1 in. long. Filaments half as long as the corolla, 
pilose, dilated at the base.—Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xvili.109. Bonamia 
althofiana, Dammer in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 329. Hewittia Kili- 
mandschari, Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1008. Ipomea cepha- 
lantha, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 69. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6009-9000 ft., Meyer ; 
Johnston, 184! above Marangu, Volkens, 1559 ; Uru, Volkens, 1882. 
Var. glabratus, Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. le. Stem and leaves glabrescent when 
mature.—C, Schimperi, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 347, not of Boiss. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder ; Gafat, 8200 ft., Schimper, 1465 ! 
17. CALYSTEGIA, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 874. 
Sepals subequal or the inner rather smaller. Corolla usually large 
and showy, campanulate or funnel-shaped, slightly lobed. Stamens 
inserted low down in the corolla-tube, not exserted ; filaments dilated 
at the base; anthers oblong. Disc prominent, annular. Ovary 1-celled 
or with an imperfect septum ; style filiform; stigmas two, flattened, 
ovate or elliptic. Capsule usually 1-celled, 4-valved. Seeds 4, 
glabrous ; cotyledons broad, plicate, often bifid. Prostrate or twining 
herbs, Leaves usually entire. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered ; bracts 
foliaceous, usually large. 
Species 8 or more, inhabiting the temperate and subtropical zones of both 
hemispheres. 
1. C. hederacea, Wail. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed Carey) ii. 1824, 94 An 
annual, with slender climbing stems. Leaves long petioled, deltoid- 
hastate, 1-1} in. long, with large spreading or defiexed entire or toothed 
basal auricles, membranous, glabrous. Flowers solitary ; peduncle long, 
often exceeding the leaves ; bracts foliaceous, ovate, obtuse, enveloping 
the calyx. Calyx glabrous, 3 lin. long; sepals ovate, obtuse or minutely 
mucronate, the two outer larger than the three inner and rounded at 
