﻿62 coNVOLVULACE^ (Baker & Wriglit). [Ipovioea, 



1 -3- flowered ; peduncles shorter than the petioles; bracts minute, 

 lanceolate ; pedicels about as long as the calyx ; calyx glabrous or 

 slightly haiiy, 3-4 lin. long ; sepals leafy, unequal, accrescent, outer 

 cordate at the base ; corolla a little longer than the calyx ; capsule 

 globose, glabrous, 3 lin. in diam.; seeds glabrous. /. calycina, C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 201 ; HaUier f. in Engl.Jahrh. 

 xviii. 129. 7. hlepharosepala, Hochst. ex A. Eich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 72. Aniseia cali/cina, Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 429. Convolvulus 

 calyctnus, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 13, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 51. 



Eastekn Eegion ; Natal ; in Kaffir rice- fields at Inanda, Wood, 1258 ! and 

 without precise locality, Gerrard, 555 ! Gueinzius ! 

 Also in Tropical Africa and India. 



39. I. geminiflora (Welw. Apont. Phyto-Geogr. 590) ; an annual 

 herb, branched from the base ; branches long virgate, prostrate or 

 scarcely climbing, sparsely puberulous. reddish hirsute at the apex ; 

 leaves cordate-ovate, 1^-2 in. long, 9-24 lin. wide at the ba?e, 

 glaucous, scarcely puberulous beneath ; petiole usually much longer 

 than the blade ; peduncles geminate, axillary, 6-9 lin. long, deflexed 

 in fruit, with two small subulate bracts at the base ; sepals ovate, 

 acuminate, red-glandular on the back, hispid on the margins ; 

 corolla sulphur-yellow, scarcely longer than the calyx ; filaments 

 inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, naked ; anthers nearly- 

 triangular ; ovary elliptic-conic, surrounded at the base by a tall 

 annular disk ; style rather short ; capsule thin, glabrous, seated 

 upon the hispid verrucose calyx ; seeds nearly 2 lin. long, dull grey, 

 shortly tomentose. Britten in Journ. Bot. 1894, 86 ; Bendle in 

 Journ. Bot. 1894, 174; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 731. I. 

 cynanchifolia, Ballierf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 538, parti//, not of 

 C. B. Clarke. 



Eastern Region : Natal; Verulam, SeJinmnn, 9065, Oakfort (Oakford ?) on 

 the Umhloti Kiver, Rehmann, 8i99, and without precise locality, Gueinzius (all 

 ei HaUier f.). 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



40. I. obscura (Ker in Bot. Eeg. t. 239) ; stems slender, twining 

 widely, glabrous, as are the leaves and sepals ; leaves ovate, acute, 

 entire, deeply cordate at the base, 1-2 in. long, thin, green on both 

 surfaces, sometimes ciliate ; petiole about as long as the l)lade ; 

 peduncle short, 1-3-tlowered ; bracts very small, linear ; pedicels 

 thickened; calyx 3 lin. long; sepals oblong, acute, subequal, much 

 imbricate, minutely verrucose ; corolla white, openly funnel-shaped, 

 li-2 lin. long, glabrous and tinged with green outside ; capsule 

 glabrous, 4 lin. in diam.; seeds black, glabrous. Choisij in 

 DC. Prod. ix. 370; ITaUier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 140; 

 Jtendle in Journ. Bot. 1902, 191. I. fragilis, Choisy in DC. Prod. 

 ix. 372 ; Rendle I.e. 1901, 56. I. tenuis, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 139, 144, 156, 159; Saltier f. in Enyl. 

 Jahrb. xviii. \iO, partly. 



