﻿80 CONVOLVULA.CE.E (Baker & Wright). [Breicerla. 



Habit very variable, erect or scandent ; leaves entire ; cymes axillary, some- 

 times reduced to a single flower or forming a tei-minal tbyrsoid panicle. 



DisTEiB. Species about 25, distributed through the warmer regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



Flowers solitary ; sepals broadly lanceolate (1) capensis. 



Flowers clustered (except near the apex of the 



branches); sepals narrowly lanceolate ..; ... (2) suffruticoaa. 



1. B. capensis (Baker); an undershrub; branches up to ]0 in. 



long, prostrate or suberect, clothed with brownish adpressed hairs ; 

 leaves sessile or very shortly petioled, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, silky on both sides, about 8 lin. long and 4 lin. wide ; 

 flowers solitary, axillary, very shortly stalked ; bracts 2, lanceolate, 

 shorter than the calyx ; calyx densely silky ; sepals broadly lanceo- 

 late, acute, 3 lin. long, 1-^- lin. wide ; corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 

 4 lin. long, pale pink ; ovary hairy at the top; styles 2|- lin. long; 

 capsule globose, glabrous. Ecolvulus capensis, E. Meyer in Drege^ 

 Zwei Pjianzengeogr. Documente, 46 ; Ghoisy in DO. Prod. ix. 444 ; 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrh. xviii. 86. Seddera capensis, Hallier f. 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 529. 



Vah. jB, parviflora (Baker) ; habit very dwarf; hairs shorter and more 

 adpressed; calyx 2 lin. long; corolLi 3 lin. iu diam. j capsule as long as the 

 sejjals. 



Vab. 7, oligotricha (Baker) ; stem with few patent hairs ; leaves elliptical, 

 9 lin. long, 5 lin. broad, glabrous on both surfaces, ciliate on the margins; calyx 

 ciliate on the margin only. Seddera capensis, var. glahrescens, Hallier f. in Bull. 

 JJerh. Boiss. vi. 52 r>. 



Vab. 5, minor (Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1902, 189) ; an undershrub ; branches 

 up to 6 in. long, white hirsute with patent hairs, as are also the leaves ; bracts 

 and sepals with white hairs on the lower side ; leaves not exceeding 3 lin, in 

 length and 2 lin. in breadth ; corolla 4 lin. long. 



Coast Region: Queenstown Div. ; Shiloh, 3500-4000 ft., DregsJ near 

 Qneenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 1973 ! and without precise locality, Zeyher ! 



Kalahari Begion : Bechuaualand ; near the ruins at Kuruman, Burchell, 

 2418! Var. jS : Griqualand West; near the Vaal River, Shaw, 130! Var. 7: 

 Orange River Colony ; near the Vet River, Burke, 132 ! Zeylier, 1221 ! Draai 

 Fontein, Eehmann, 8659! Transvaal; Boschveld, between Klein Smit and 

 Kameel Poort, Eehmann, 4834 ! Var. S ; Orange River Colony ; Leeuw Spruit 

 and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton .' 



Eastern Region -. Natal ; in thorny -bush, Tugola, Gerrard, 1336 1 



Also in Tropi* al Africa. 



3. B. STiflfruticosa (Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 

 275) ; a subshrub, 9-20 in. high ; branches erect, straight, silky 

 pubescent; leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 5-18 lin. long, 

 1-1^-5 lin. wide, acuminate or acute, mucronate, with silky hairs on 

 both sides ; petiole about 1 lin. long ; peduncle 2-10 lin. long ; 

 bracts lanceolate ; flowers sessile ; three outer sepals lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 3 lin. long, f lin. wide, inner rather shorter, 1 lin. broad, 

 ovate, acuminate, membranous at the margins in the lower part; 

 corolla 3| lin. long, broadly campanulate ; ovary ovoid; styles 

 8 lin. long, filiform ; stigmas capitate. B. haccharoides and B. 

 sessiflura, Baker in Kew Bidlctiu, 1894, 68. Convolvulus mucro- 



