﻿Convolvulus.] coNVOLVULACE.T] (Baker & Wright). 73 



pubescent; bracts obLinceoIate ; pedicel shorter than the bracts j corolla 5 liu. 

 louj^, 6 lin. iu diara., white ? 



Coast Region.- Karoo, Thunherg .' Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, MacOiran, 

 950! and without precise locality, Boa-ker! Queenstowii Div., Cooper, 266! 

 British Kaffiaria, Cooper, 133! 



Central Region: Graatt" Rtinet Div.; Stieeuwberg Range, 3800 ft , Bolus, 

 19)1 ! 



Kaiahari REGroN : Transvanl, Sanderson! Var. y: Transvaal; Abbots 

 Hill, near Barberton, 3500 ft., Qalpin, 1037 J Var. 5: Transvaal; near Lino- 

 kiina, Holuh, 1948 I 1949 ! 1950 ! 1951 ! 



Eastern Region : Transkei ; banks of the Rashee River, belovv 1000 ft., 

 Drege ! between Gekau (Gcua) River and Bashee River, 1000-2000 ft., Drege ! 

 >>'ata] ; bank of the npper Tng-ela River, (Food,MG~\ Var. ^8: Natal ; Camper- 

 down, Rehmann, 7823 (ex Uallierf.). Var. y -. Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 

 350! 



7. C. filiformis (Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 168); stem her- 

 baceous, climbing, filiforin, glabrous ; leaves scattered, glabrous, 

 central lobe filiform or linear, up to 15 lin. long, basal lobes small ; 

 peduncle up to 18 lin. long, glabrous, bracts lanceolate; pedicels 

 8 lin. long, pubescent ; calyx 4 lin. long, villous outside ; sepal.s 

 broadly ovate, imbricate, apiculate ; corolla 15 lin. long and about 

 the same in diam., rose-colour (Burchell), with adpressed. silky hairs 

 on the central areas. 



South Africa : without locality, Thunherg ! 



Coast Region: Uniondale Div.; in Lange Kloof, between Roode Krans 

 River and Groot River, Burchell, i^l'^il Huinansdorp Div.; Lange Kloof, near 

 Krianine River Heights, Bolus, 2405! Uitenhage Div,; near the Zwartkops 

 River, Zeyher ! 



5 8. C. ulosepalus (Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 103) ; stems 

 /^Tnnny from one root, slender, simple or slightly branched, prostrate, 

 glabrous or slightly hirsute when young ; leaves hastate or sagittate, 

 1-3 in. long, \-5 lin. wide, glabrous or pubescent ; basal lobes short, 

 entire or divided ; petiole 2-G lin. long ; peduncle much longer 

 than the petiole, slender, 2-6-flowered ; bracts linear-lanceolate ; 

 pedicels 2 lin. long ; outer sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent 

 outside, 2i lin. long, inner rotundate, obtuse, almost coriaceous 

 below, membranous, paler, glabrous and sometimes undulate above, 

 2 lin. long; corolla whitish, 4 lin. long and about 4 lin. in diam. ; 

 lobes acute ; capsule globose, 2;} lin. in diam., glabrous. C. hastatns, 

 var. multifidus, Ghoisy in BO. Prod. ix. 407. C. rhijndwpJiiillus, 

 Baker ex Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 247, name only ; Hallier f. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 104; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 534; 

 Petef)' in Engl, tj- Prantl, PJlanzenfam. iv. 3A. 36. 



Coast Region: Albany Div., Sowker! Fort Beanfort Div., Cooper, 547! 

 Qneenstown Div. ; Shiloh,"3500 ft., Baur, 901 ! 



Central Region: Ceres Div. ; at Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1220 1 Beaufort 

 West Div. ; between Beanfort West and Rhenoster Kop, Drhje ! Murraysburg- 

 I>iv.; Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Tyson, 124! Graaff Reiuet Div.; near Graart 

 Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 252! Eichuiond Div.; Winterveld, between Newyears 

 Fontein and Szels Fontein, Dr ege, _1819A .' Hopetown Div.; near Hopetowu, 

 Shau- : Colesberg Div,, near'Uol&iT)erg'"8ftaii; / Albert Div.? Mooi Plaats, 

 £>ri;je : Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, Bonkcr, IGO; 



