﻿Convolvulus.] CONVOLVULACEJ!] (Baker & Wrigbt). 75 



noar the coast, Wood, 961! Umzinijati, Wood, 1308! and witliout precise 

 lofaiity, Qerrard, 410 ! 



Also in Tropical Africa. 



11. C. arvensis (Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 153); stems climbinj:, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent ; leaves ovate-hastate, 1-2 in. long, 

 •with spreading or deflexeJ usually acute basal lobes ; peduncles 

 1-3-flovvered; pedicels long; bracts minute, lanceolate; sepals 

 subequal, oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long; corolla funnel-shaped, scarcely 

 lobed, 9 lin. long, pink or white ; capsule subglobose, glabrous ; 

 seeds glabrous. Ckoisy in DC. Prod. ix. 406 ; FL Ban. H. 3012-13 ; 

 Hoolc. f. FL Brit. Ind. iv. 219; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 

 108. 



Eastern Eegiox : Xatal ; Scludlze, 19 (ex Hallier f). 



Widely spread in the north temperate and subtropieal parts of the Old World. 

 Introduced elsewhere. 



12. C. phyllosepalus (Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 535) ; 

 stems trailing; branches long, densely pubescent; leaves small, 

 shortly petioled, hastate-sagittate, sometimes vpider and subcordate, 

 sometimes narrower and with 2 short divergent basal auricles, acute, 

 glabrous on the upper surface, thinly pubescent beneath ; peduncles 

 axillary^ l-flowered, much longer than the petiole, slender, terete ; 

 bracts minute, linear-spathulate ; sepals elliptic-spathulate, foliaceous, 

 3 lin. long, obtuse, mucronate, crisped on the margin, glabrous or 

 nearly so ; corolla funnel-shaped, twice the length of the calyx, 

 "vvhite ? ; capsule globose, glabrous. 



Kalahaei Begion : Orange Eiver Co'ony ; Bloemfontein, Rehiiann, 3706 

 (ex Hallier f.) ; Transvaal j Aapics Poort, near Pretoria, Eeluna-nn, 4131; Kudus 

 Poort, liehmann, 4674 (ex Hallier f.). 



13. C. hirtellus (Hallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 536) ; stems 

 a few inches long, very slender, prostrate, not twining, clothed with 

 short persistent pubescence ; leaves lanceolate-hastate, 6-9 lin. long, 

 finely pubescent, with a short deflexed entire or 2-3-toothed auricle ; 

 petiole very short; peduncles always l-flowered, 6 lin. long, 

 pubescent, adscending, spreading or deflexed ; pedicels 1 lin. long, 

 bracts minute, linear; calyx 2 lin. lung; sepals oblong, much 

 imbricate, firm in texture, nearly glabrous, obtuse, mintttely cuspi- 

 date; corolla pinkish-white, three times as long as the calyx, 

 glabrous down the keel of the divisions. 



Kalahari Region : Orange River Colony ; near the Yaal River, BurU ! 

 Bloemfontein, Rchmann, 3S48 (ex Hallier/.). 



14. C. Galpinii (C. H. Wright) ; whole plant densely villous ; 

 stem long, twining, slender, terete, -} lin. in diam. ; leaves ovate- 

 cordate, acute or obtuse, 1 in. long, 6 lin. broad ; petiole 4 lin. long ; 

 peduncle 9-15 lin. long, 1-2-flowered ; bracteoles 2, linear, 3 lin. 

 long; pedicels 2-3 lin.'' long ; calyx 3^ lin. long; pcpals dvate, 



