﻿Cusciita.] CONVOLVULACE^ (Baker & Wright). 85 



filament ; scales lanceolate, not deeply fimbriate ; styles free to the 

 base, twice as long as the clavate stigmas ; capsule unknown. 



Eastern Eegion: Zululand, ia damp places, Oerrard, 1337! 



3. C. africana (Thunb. FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 156) ; stems very 

 slender; flowers in dense cymes ; pedicels often two or three times 

 as long as the flower; calyx i as long as the corolla; lobes round- 

 deltoid, shortly united at the base into a hemispherical tube ; corolla 

 li lin. long ; lobes spreading, oblong-lanceolate, about as long as the 

 tube ; stamens more than half as long as the corolla-lobes ; filaments 

 three times as long as the subglobose anthers; scales obovate, inciso- 

 fimbriate, as long as the corolla-tube ; styles free to the base, twice 

 as long as the clavate stigmas ; capsule 1 lin. in diam., membranous, 

 bursting irregularly. Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 454, farthj; Engelm. 

 in Trans. Acad. 8c. St. Louis, i. 475. C. amerieana, Thmh. Prodr. 

 32, not of Linn. C. sp., Drege, Zioei Pjlanzengeogr. Documente, 

 124. 



Vab. fi, capensis (Bnker) ; habit more luxuriant than in the type ; corolla 

 2-2J lin. long; lobes more lanceolate than in the type. G. capensis, Choisy, 

 Cuscut. Enum. 175, *. i.fig. 4, and in DC. Prod. ix. 454; Harv. I'/ies. Cap. t. 39. 



South Africa: without locality, Var. $, Thorn, 508 ! 



Coast Region: Cape Div. ; Wynberg, Roxlurghf Kiet Valley, Zeyher ! 

 Millers Point, Wolley Dod, 859 ! Eiversdal© Div. ; lower part of the Lange 

 Bergen, near Kampsche Berg, Burcliell, 7031 ! George Div. ; near Touw Kiver, 

 Burchell, 5724 ! 5730 ! Humansdorp Div. ; Kromme River, Bolus, 2406 ! 

 TJitenliage Div. ; at the foot of Van Stadens Berg, Drege! near tlie sourfos of 

 Bulk River, ilfacOtra??, 1933! Var. jS : Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, Schlechter, 

 itOiS ! George Div. ; Kaymans Gat, Drege ! 



4. C. nitida (E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 

 87, 176) ; stem filiform, much-branched; flowers arranged in a race- 

 mose panicle ; bracteoles \ lin. long, lanceolate ; pedicels 1-2 lin, long, 

 thickened upwards ; calyx 1\ lin. long ; lobes broadly ovate-triangular, 

 rather fleshy ; corolla about twdce as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, often reflexed ; anthers oblong, slightly shorter 

 than the filaments ; scales about as long as the corolla-tiibej styles 

 shorter than the linear stigmas. Choisy, Cuscut. Enum. 176, /. 2, 

 fig. 1, and in DC. Prod. ix. 454 ; Engelm. in Trans. Acad. Sc. St. 

 Louis, i. 474. C. Burmanni, Choisy 11 cc. 177 and 454. G. 

 africana, a, Drege, Zicei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 101. 



South Africa: without locality, Pappe! Zeyher, 1235! Herb. Harvey, 

 460! 



Coast Region: Cape Div. : Mnizenberg, 2C0 it.. Bolus, 4427! Table Moun- 

 tain, 400 tl.. Bolus, A427\i\ Lion mmnUnn, Burchell, 291 ! Paarl Div.; Paarl 

 Mountains', Drege! Kluin Drakenstein Mountains, Drege! Worcester Div. j 

 Zeyher .' Stellenbosch Div. ; Loivrys Pass, 1400 ft., Schlechter, ItH ! 



5. C. natalensis (Baker); stems very slender, but rather stouter 

 than in C. africana; flowers in dense cymes, the pedicels at most as 

 long as the flowers ; calyx 1 lin. long ; lobes ovate-deltoid, shortly 



