Ipomma.] Lxxxi. convolvulace.e. 425 



sliort lateral ones. Peduncles long and slender, bearing 1 or rarely 2 or 3 

 pink or purplish llowers, the pedicels as long as the calyx, the bracts minute. 

 S^als lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or rather obtuse, about 3 lines 

 long.^ Corolla campanulate, f to nearly 1 in. long. Ovary 2-celled. 

 limiting calyx slightly enlarged, the capsule globular and smooth. Seeds 

 glabrous.— Chois. in J)C. Prod. ix. 352 ; Convolvulus incisus, Spreng. Syst. 

 i. 609. 



W. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. 3Iuener ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 



^- Brown. 



I cinerascens, K. Br. Prod. 486 ; Chois. in DC. Prod. is. 359 {Convolvulus dnerascens, 

 Sprang. Syst. i. 609), from the islands off Cape Wilberforce, appears to me to be onl}' a 

 ^ore villous form of /. hicisa, the flowers perhaps rather smaller. 



31. I. uniflora, Roem, and SchulL Syst, iv. 247. A glabrous or some- 

 ^vbat silky-pubesceiit rather slender twiner. Leaves oblong to linear, obtuse 

 or mucronate, entire, narrowed into a short petiole, mostly 1 to 3 in. long, 

 Mmicles shorter than the leaves, bearing usually a single white flower, the 

 pedicel as long as or longer than the calyx, the bracts very minute. Sepals 

 J^afy, acute, the outer ones broad and shortly decurrent on the pedicel, J to 

 ^ ^n. long, the inner ones smaller and narrower. Corolla canipanulate. 

 [onger than the calyx, but rarely exceeding 1 in., more or less hau-y outside, 

 ^ary 2-cellcd. Capsule globular. Seeds glabrous puberulous or bordeix'd 

 Jy short \mix%.—Aniseia uniflora, Chois. Conv. Or., and m DO. Prod. ix. 

 ^31 ; Wight, Ic. t. 850 ; J. martinicensis and A, ensifolia, Chois. Conv.^ Or., 

 ^«d iu DC. Prod. ix. 430 ; A. cernna, Moric. PL Amer. t. 38; Chois. m 

 ^^; Prod. ix. 43L and perhaps some other species referred by Choisy to 



m 



ni ^^''f ^.*'5l'^»^- Rockingham Bay, DaUachy. Tlic species is mdely dispersed over tro- 

 l 'rai Asia, Africa, America, and the Pacific islands. 



32. I. angustifolia, Jaca. Collect, ii. 367, and Ic. Ear. t. 317, not of 



^A^'fj^. A glabrous annual, with slender piostnite trailing or tuunng stems, 

 usually drying of a black or brown colour. Leaves on very sliort petioles or 

 siffiost sessile, linear or lanceolate, acute or acunalnate, cordate or hastate, 

 7 often toothed at the base. 1 to 2 or even 3 in. long when very luxuriant, 

 f Jduncles slender, longer than the leaves, bearing 1 or 2 sinal yellowish- 

 ^tite flowers. Sepals ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate-acuminate about 3 lines 

 ;°Dg; CoroUa campanidate, i to f in. long. Stamens rather long OFary 

 :f ed. Seeds glabrous.-/, /licaulis, Blume ; Chois. in DC. Prod. ix. 

 sj^' Bot. Mag. I 5426 ; I. Ltlculata, E. Br. Prod. 485 ; Bot. Reg. t. 



n Jf ■„^Y«t'alia. Montague Sound. N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; Camden and Breck- 

 S ^i"t««'-^ ^<^'-iin ; U|pcr Victoria river. F. Mueller; islands of llie Gulf ot Carpen- 



^^^eensland. Cap^ York, D« J./ /Rockingham Bay, DaUachy ; Cape Kiver, Bau>- 



8 Je?'/P'':''« i« ^IMy dispersed over tropical Africa and Asia. R. Brown ^ Ans^^^^^^^^ 

 SSt'T '"'^'"'^'^ « narrow'-leave.l Conn corresponding precisely with ^e Ga. lea plant on 

 S t'*=''^<^'l % Jacquin and by Vahl, together with the hroadcr-leaved form more 

 '''"* '° E. ludia aud the Archipelago. 



