Convolvulus.] LXXXI. CONVOLVULACE^ 



429 



Leaves cordate or hastate, acute or acuiuinate. Bracteoles ovate, acute, 

 longer than the calyx. Sei^Is 4 to 5 lines ; corolla above 2 in. long 5. C. septum. 



I-eaves fleshy, reniform or rouudcd-cortlatc, ohtusc. Bracteoles ovate, 

 very obtuse, shorter than the calyx. Sepals 4 to G lines ; corolla 

 about 11 in. long 6- <^- SuIJauella. 



Sect. I. Convolvulus.— Bracts small or none. Dissepiment of the 



ovary usually perfect. 



1. C. erubescens, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1067. A perennial, eitlier gla- 

 tfoiis, pubescent or densely tomentose, rarely villous, with a creepnig root- 

 stock and slender prostrate trailing or rarely twining stems. Foliage exceed- 

 ingly variable, the leaves usually more or less sagittate-cordate, the lower 

 ones ovate-lanceolate, the upper ones passing into narrow-lanceolate or 

 linear, with diverging entire or iobed basal auricles and from f to 1| in. long, 

 Ijut sometimes nearly all small, cordate-ovate obtuse and slightly creuate, 

 sometimes nearly all narrow-linear with either very minute or long and hnear 

 tasal auricles or lobes. Peduncles often as long as the leaves, 1-flowered, 

 ^'•ith minute bracts at a distance from tlie calyx. Sepals 2 to nearly 3 hues 

 long, ovate, obtuse or almost acute. Corolla pink or white, usually from ^ 

 to \ in. long. Ovary and fruit completely 2-celled. Stigmatic bbes Imear. 

 -R-Br. Prod. 482'; Chois. in DU. Prod. ix. 412; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm i. 

 2^5; C. remotm, II. Br. Prod. 4S3 ; Chois. in DC. Prod. ix. 412 (a smaU- 

 leaved form) ; C. anamlmimus, E. Br. Prod. 482 (very narrow-leaved speci- 



mens) ; 



^^r- 1. c. 347! 



, Queensland. Moreton Bay, A. CunningUm, and Nerkool Qx^^\ Bowman (both 

 '"lunant specimens, with large leaves and sometimes 2 flowers on the peduuclcs) , KocK- 

 aampton, O'Shanesy, Currivvillighi, Barton (both the common form). 

 „ *• S- V^ales/ Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, i?. ^;-«^^« and many others 

 "orth^ard to New England, C. l<tuart, C. Moore, and Clarence "«r,^..^/f'-/ >« th« " 



^^dHions 



r ^ I, A ■ ■ M M M Mm hT 



Victoria. Very common in pastures, etc., from the Glenelg to Gipps' Land, Adar>ison, 



•^«f//^r, and others ; Wimmera, Da//«c/^y. , , . „v ,T,nn,laut 



Tasmania. Near Risden Cove, B. Brown (very narrow-leaved specimens) , abundant 



'" good soil, /. 2) Hooker , A. ♦!, n 



S. Anstralia: Spcuc;r's Gulf, R. Broum (very small-leaved «F"'"'=f ^^X,.,'„7 



^'^y to St. Vincent's and Spencers gulfs. Behr, F. Mueller, and others ; Lake loiicns, 

 • '^lueller; in the northern interior. M'JDouall Stuart. ^ jj 



• Australia. Swan River. Brummond, 1st CvU. n. 6.2, 3;-^ Coll. n. 87, 4M Loll. 



W 



». 



'"l. Frtiss, n. 1924, 1925; Murchison river, OUlJleld. 



ot?!.A''« r- -mar-kable forms or varieties -one with very sm^^^^^ 



JJw^y nver, T. Mu 



The species is also in 



=dnneles very short from Cudnaka, F. Mueller 1 he spe ^s is a..o u. 



'- -emana, and appears to be the Australasian representative of the ^""f" ^^^^Tm^'^i^tn 



£ '^ T" "^ °f l'''^ G. arvensis of the northern hemisphere Bf f ^/.''^f "^"^Jhlia 

 J'"^«. nnd those quoted by Choisy, it should also probablymclude C. «.^.^., Oho s. m 



5ff J- ix. 40B: and (7. P/-m«7 Lid C. Huegelii Tl. Vr. m PL Pmss. 1. 346, all 

 rea here by p. MueUer, hut of which I have seen n 



/DeT;.'iakPreiss.i.346,allre- 

 no specimens. 



2. C. multivalvis, i?. Br. Prod. 483. A twiner closely alhed^o 

 IP^^-^iflorus, and considered by most authors as a variety, ^'^Ifl^^ 

 '^^'^ate entire leaves and cvmose inflorescence, but densely clothed '.ith 



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