218 CI. CONVOLYULACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) | [Comvolvulus. 
on shortened branches; outer bracts 4 in., elliptic or ovate, not plicate, densely rusty- 
tomentose. Sepals + in. Corolla 4-2 in., widely funnel-shaped, hairy on the folds 
without. Fruit not seen. 
2. C. Aitchisoni, Clarke; patently fulvous-hirsute, leaves fascicled 
linear lower oblong, flowers capitate bracteate, sepals linear-lanceolate very 
hirsute. C. lanuginosus, Aitch. Cat. Punjab. Pl. 98 ; P of Lamk. 
Punsas; Jhelum and Salt Range, Aitchison.—Disrris. Affghanistan. 
Rootstock woody, forming tufts; annual flowering stems 4-4 in. Radical leaves 
1} in., linear, or in small examples l in. oblong, densely patently hirsute on both 
sides. Bracts 2 in., narrowly lanceolate. Sepals} in. Corolla 1 in., wide-funnel- 
shaped, hairy on the plaits without. Ovary glabrous. Fruit not seen.—This cannot 
be C. lanuginosus, Lamk. (Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 401), unless C. Calverti, Boiss. 
(Fl. Orient. iv. 94), and several other intermediate species be united with it ; itis not 
silky, but abundantly hirsute with hairs i in. long. It is undoubtedly closely allied 
to C. lanuginosus, Lamk. See Cav. Ic. ii. t. 189. 
3. C. microphyllus, Sieb; Vis. Pl. Æg.-Nub. 12; fulvous-villous. 
leaves linear-oblong or upper elliptic, flowers axillary or on short lateral 
branches sessile 1-4 together, sepals 4 in. lanceolate densely hirsute, corolla 
scarcely 4 in. hairy without. Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 402 (syn. ©. desert 
evel.) z Wight Ic. t. 1367; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 164; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 103. 
N Sorpe; Stocks. GoozERAT; JDalzell.—DisrmiB. Beloochistan to Egypt and 
ubia. 
Rootstock woody ; stems 6-24 in., little divided, patently villous, often floriferous 
from near the base. Leaves 3-1 in., silky and villous in Sieber's example, subsessile. 
Bracts lanceolate, rufous-hirsute, shorter than the sepals. Corolla wide-funnel-shaped, 
rose-yellow. Capsule scarcely } in., ovoid. Seeds glabrous. 
Van. Boissieri ; stems and leaves adpressedly rusty-silky, flowers mostly solitary 
axillary, C. scindicus, Boiss. Diagn. 2, iii. 123, not of Stocks.—Scinde ; Stocks, 
zell. 
4. C. pluricaulis, Chois. Convolv. Or. 95, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 408 
(the Plains plant); thinly fulvous-hairy, leaves small linear, flowers 1-3 to- 
gether axillary pedicelled, sepals } in. narrowly linear-lanceolate sparsely hairy, 
` corolla 1i in. hairy without. Evolvulus ferrugineus, Wall. Cat. 1316, the 
Behar example only. ? Ipomea microphylla, Roth Nov. Sp. 112. 
Plains of Hinposran and Bemar; Wallich, H. f. 4 T., &e., frequent. 
_ Rootstock woody ; stems 3-6 in., slender, wiry, very thinly hairy. Leaves 3 by è 
in., subsessile; radical more spathulate, subpetioled. Pedicels 0-3 in.; bracts 
linear, small. Sepals with a linear elongation, so thinly hairy as to appear glabrous 
to the naked eye. Corolla wide-funnel-shaped, pale rose. Ovary glabrous. . 
AR. macra; larger, more densely hairy, leaves oblong, sepals 4 in. elliptic- 
lanceolate rufous-hirsute, corolla 2-3 in., seeds puberulous. Evolvulus pilosus, Roxb. 
Fi. Ind. ii. 106. E. ferrugineus, Wall. Cat. 1316.—PvN3AB, common; from 3000 ft. 
alt. in Kashmir to Delhi; Wallich, Royle, Edgeworth, &c.—Fasily separable from C. 
pluricaulis, but except in the larger corolla not distinguishable from C. microphyllus. 
5. C. rhyniospermus, Hochst; Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 405; leaves 
subsessile oblong sparsely hairy, flowers clustered axillary, sepals lanceolate 
subobtuse hirsute, corolla % in. tubular, mouth narrow funnel-shaped. Wight 
Ie. t. 1368. 
Sem»; Stocks, Dalzell.—Distris. Cordofan. 
Annual; stems 3-10 in., little divided, often flowering nearly their whole length. 
Leaves $-1in. Flowers rarely solitary, peduncle 0-} in. ; bracts 1-] in., and sepals 
iin. not acuminate. Corolla hairy without. Ovary glabrous. Capsule i in., ovoid. 
