220 CI. CONVOLVULACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) [Convolvulus. 
fruit. Corolla 3 in., hairy at the tip in the bud. Ovary and filaments glabrous. 
Capsule 4 in., ovoid, 2-celled, irregularly breaking up. Seeds glabrous. 
10. C. parviflorus, Vahl Symb. iii. 29; pubescent or nearly glabrous, 
leaves ovate-cordate acute entire, cymes small dense many-fld. peduncled, 
corolla 4 in. tubular narrow-mouthed pink or white. Roxb, Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 
& Wall. i. 51; Chois, Convolv. Or. 98, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 413; Dalz. $ 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 163; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 430. ©. asclepiadeus, Wall. Cat. 
1396. Ipomea paniculata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 50, t. 21, fig. 3. I. parviflora, 
Pers. Syn. i. 183, not of Vahl. 
Assam; Jenkins. Deccan PENINSULA and CEYLON; frequent.—DistTRis. S.E. 
Asia, Malaya, Australia, Tropical Africa. 
Stems slender. Leaves 11-3 in., shallowly cordate; petiole 4-1] in. Peduncles 
mostly longer than the petioles; cymes subcapitate; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals i 
in., ovate-caudate, pubescent. Corolla-lobes short, acute. Stigmas short, linear. 
Capsule i in., globose, glabrous. Seeds glabrous.—Much resembling Jacquemontia 
cerulea (cultivated often in India), which has a wider mouthed bright-blue corolla 
and shorter elliptic- oblong stigmas. 
ll. C. microcalyx, Clarke ; leaves ovate-cordate acute stellately fulvous- 
tomentose beneath, cymes compound subsessile, sepals à in. elliptic obtuse, 
corolla 4 in. 
Cultivated (in the Caleutta gardens?) from Assam ? 
Stems slender, elongate, villous, twining. Leaves 1-1} in., shallowly cordate, 
pubescent above; petiole i in. Peduncles very short, or 0, i.e., peduncles several 
from each axil, fulvous-tomentose; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals subscarious, nearly 
glabrous. Corolla of C. parviflorus, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; style long, stigmas 
filiform slightly clavate. Fruit not seen.—The examples are noted as cultivated ; 
but, if the plant was not brought in from the Assam jungles, it is not known whence 
it came. , 
C. glandulosus, Wall. Cat. 2252, and C. Tarita, Wall. Cat. 2253, are absent from 
Wallich’s Herbarium. 
10. EVOLVULUS, Linn. 
Small, hairy herbs, or undershrubs. Leaves small, entire. Flowers small, 
1-8 together, peduncled. Sepals subequal, unaltered in fruit. Corolla funnel- 
shaped; limb 5-plaited, subentire. Stamens included or exserted, filaments 
filiform. Ovary 2-1-celled, 4-ovuled; styles 2, separate from the base, each 
cleft into 2 linear or subclavate stigmas. Capsule globose, 4-2-valved, nor- 
mally 4-seeded. Seeds glabrous; cotyledons doubly folded radicle incumbent. 
—Species 70, in all hotter climates, more numerous in America. 
1. E. alsinoides, Linn.; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 437, with all syn. 
except E. pilosus, Roxb.; sparsely or densely silky-hairy white fulvous oF 
almost rufous, leaves linear oblong or wide-elliptic, sepals 4—4 in. lanceolate 
hairy, corolla 1-j in. blue or white. Burm. ft. Zeyl. 9, t. 6, ig. 1; Wall. Cat. 
1317; Roxb. Cat. Pl. (1813), and Fl. Ind. ii. 105; Chois. in DC. Prodr. X. 
447; Wight IU. t. 168 bis, tig. 10; Boiss. FI. Orient. iv. 113. E. linifolius, 
Linn.; Chois. l.c. 449. E. angustifolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 
107. E. hirsutus, Lamk. Enc. iii. 588, and IU. t. 216, fig. 2; Chots. l c. 447 
(syn. Roxb. excl); Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162. E. sericeus, Wall. Cat. 
1315.. Convolvulus valerianoides, Blanco. Fl. Filip. 90.—Rheede Hort. Mal. 
X1. t. 64. 
