﻿ConvolvnJufi ] con volvulace.t: (Baker & Wright). 71 



Calyx 6 liii. long ; pedi- 

 cels very short ... (19) natalensis. 

 Leaves more or less lobed ... (21) capeusis. 



1. C. ocellatus (Hoot, in Bot. Mag. t. 406-5) ; stems shrubby, 

 slender, erect, much branched at the base, densely coated, like the 

 leaves and sepals, with pale brown or drab persistent silky tomentum, 

 "2-1 ft. long ; leaves linear, entire, acute, nearly sessile, 4}-6 Jin. long, 

 thick in texture, midrib very stout ; peduncles ascending, always 

 1 -flowered, very silky, longer or shorter than the leaves ; bracts 

 minnte, linear; calyx 3 lin. long; sepals oblonsr or ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse; corolla twice as long as the calyx, whitish, brown-silky 

 down the keel of the divisions; capsule as long as the calyx. 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 404 ; Rallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 

 102. 



Kalahari Rkgion: Transvnal ; Mag^alies Berg, Burl-e, 119! Hills near 

 Wi>oi River, Zeyher, 1232! (1231 ex HalUer f.) Liuokaua and Matebe Yalloy, 

 Holub .' 



2. C. Burmanni (Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 405) ; stems shrubby, 

 terete, subpubescent ; leaves linear-lanceolate, subfalcate, narrowed 

 to the base, pubescent, sessile, 1-1} in. long; peduncles 1-llowered, 

 2-bracteate ; sepals lanceolate, acute, glabrous. 



South Afbica : withont locality. Described from a specimen in Bunnanu's 

 herbarium, now in the Delessert herbarium. 



3. C. liniformis (Eendle in Journ. Bot. 1901, 61) ; stems a few 

 inches long, very slender, trailing, branched only at or near the 

 base ; leaves glabrous, acute, nearly sessile, 4-7 lin. long, those of 

 the centre of the stem linear with a very minute basal auricle, those 

 near its base shorter, lanceolate ; flowers 1-3 to a branch, solitary 

 on ascending peduncles, often longer than the leaves ; bracts linear, 

 1 lin. long; calyx glabrous, 3 lin. long; sepals much imbricate, 

 obtuse, outer oblong, inner obovate ; corolla pinkish-white, 9 lin. 

 long, about 1 in. in diam. at the mouth. 



Kalahari Eegion : Transvaal; Schoon River, Burl:e, 2S3! Zeyher, 

 1220! 



4. C. inconspicuus (ILdlier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 100); sfems 

 trailing, clothed like the leaves and sepals with brown hairs; petiole 

 as long as the blade ; leaves cordate-oblong, G lin. long, the lower 

 crenate, the upper piniiately lobed ; lobes acute, sparingly toothed ; 

 peduncle 1-Howered, as long as the leaf ; bracts subulate, minute ; 

 pedicel thickened; sepals ' ovate, 3 lin. long, obtuse, suberpial ; 

 corolla funnel-shaped, 9 lin, long, silky outside. C. Thunberf/u, 

 lioem. ^- Schult, var., Bngc, Zwei Pjlnivx^ieogr. Documente, 08, 

 174. 



Wkstkrn- Region-. Little Namaiiualaud ; K/.i^ls Kop, near Lily Font.^in, 

 4rOO-.5(X)a ft., Dreye .' 



