﻿78 C0NV0LvuLA.CE^i; (Baker & Wright. [Convolvulus. 



lobes small, obtuse; petioles slender, 2-3 ^-lin. long; flowers solitary ; 

 peduncle 17 lin. long; pedicel 5 lin. long; outer sepals ovate, 7 liu. 

 long, 3i lin. broad at the base, obtuse or subacute, pubescent, inner 

 smaller ; corolla yellowish, 1^^- in. long, pubescent outside ; stigmas 

 filiform, 3 lin. long. 



Eastern Region: Natal; hills near Mooi Kiver, 4500 ft., Wood, 620C! 

 4071 J South Downs, VVeeueu Couuty, 5000 ft., iVoud, 4382! 



21. C. capensis (Burm. f. Prod. Gap. 5) ; stems slender, twining, 

 clotived (like the leaves and calyx) with short brown silky pubescence ; 

 leaves roundish cordate, ^-1 in. long, obtuse, more or less deeply 

 palmately lobed ; basal lobes rounded ; petiole 3-6 lin. long ; 

 peduncles 1-2-flowered, about as long as the leaves ; bracts minute, 

 lanceolate ; calyx 4 liu. long ; sepals much imbricate, chartaceous, 

 very silky, oblong, obtuse ; corolla pale pink, 1-1|- in. long, brown- 

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

 Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 410; Hallier f. in Engl. Jafirh. xviii. 105. 

 C. alfhceoicles, Thunh. Prod. 35, partly ; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 18 ; ed. 

 Hchult. 169, not of L. C. alceifolius, Drege, Zwsi Pflanzengeogr. 

 Documente^ 103, 113. C. Falkia, Hallier f. I.e. l06, not of Jacg_. 



Var. j8, plicata (Baker) ; leaves oftea larger than in the type, rarely subentirc 

 or obtuse, usually acute and conspicuously repaud or palmato-pinnatifid ; sepals 

 oblong, acute, 4-6 lin. long. C. jAicatus, Desrouss. in Lam. Eiicycl. iii- 558; 

 Choisy in DG. Prod. ix. 410; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 106. 0. Falkia, 

 Jacq. Hort. Schosnhr. ii. t. 198 ; Choisy, I.e. C. alceifolius. Lam. III. i. 461 ; 

 Choisy, I.e.; Hallier f. I.e. 105. C. altJiieoides, Thunh. Prod. 35, partly. C. 

 Thunhergii, Roem. Sf Schultes, Syst. Veg. iv. 268 ; Kre^e, I.e. 46 ; Choisy, I.e. 



Vak. 7, uatalensis (Baker) ; stem and leaves obscurely pubescent ; leaves the 

 Bauie shape as in var. ^ ; peduncles 2-3-floweredj flowers smaller than in the 

 other varieties; calyx not more than 3 lin. long, finely silky; sepals oblong, 

 acute. 



South AraicA: without locality, Tkunberg ! Tliom.' Zeuher, 1231! Pappe! 

 Var. (8 : Zeyher, 1223 ! 



Coast Eegion: CLmwilliam Div. ; near Modder Fontein, Dickson! Malmes- 

 bury Dir. ; between Eikenboom and Riebeck's Castle, Drege .' between Groene 

 Kloof and Saldanha Bay, Drege! Paarl Div.; Wagoumakers Valley, Pappe! 

 Tulbagh Div. ; Breede River Valley, near Mitchells Pass, 800 ft., Bolus, 5211! 

 Caledon Div. ; between Genadendal and Donker Hoek, Burchell,7936 ! Swellendam 

 Div. ; near Swellendam, Thunberg ! Zeyher! Ruggens, Zuurbraak, 600 ft,, Galpin, 

 4352! Var. )3 : Eiversdale Div.; between Zoetemelka River and Little Vet 

 River, Burchell, 6851! Moasel Bay Div.; between Zout and Duyker Rivers, 

 Burchell, 6342 ! Uniondale Div. ; in Lange Kloof, Burchell, 4975 ! Port 

 Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, Drege! Albany Div, ; near Grahamstown, 

 Burhe! near Bothas Hill, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 586! Queenstovvn Div. ; by 

 the Klipplaat River at Shiloh, Drege ! Baur, 921 ! 



Central Region : Var. -. Graaff Reinet Div. ; mountains near Graaff 

 Eeinet, 4300 ft., Bolus, 2iO ! Albert Div. ; Cooper, 790! 1366 ! 



Kalahari Region : Var. $-. Orange River Colony ; near the Caledon River, 

 Burke ! Transyaal ; Hooge Veld, between Porter and Trigards Fontein, Behmann, 

 6657 ! 



Eastern Region : Var. y -. Natal ; near the Tugcla River, Germnl S: McKen, 

 1332! ^ 



