ContoknluS,] LXXXI. CONVOLVUIACEiE. 431 



tinged with pink. Bracts large, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, leafy, acute or 

 scarcely obtuse, longer than the calyx and enclosing it. Sepals ovate-lanceo- 

 late or lanceolate-acuminate, ratlier unequal^ 4 to 5 lines long. Corolla 2 to 

 3 m. long. Ovary incompletely 2'-celled, surrouufled by a cup-shapcJ disk. 

 Stigmatic lobes ovate or oblong, obtuse. Capsule 1 -celled. — Cahjdvgia 

 ^-/nwffi, 11. Br, Prod. 483; Chois. in DC. Prod, ix. 433; De Vr. in PL 

 Preiss. i. 345 ; Hook. f. ¥L Tasm. i. 276. 



W. S. "^Vales- Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, i2. Brown. 



Victoria. Wilson's Promontory and Mcrriman's Crcnk, F. Mueller; Emti Creek, 

 y^hn; "Wenda Vfile along rivers and springs, Robertson; MtXhowvxiGj Adamsou. 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant in several parts of the island, 

 •'• I>. Hooker, 



W. Australia. Swan River, Brummond, n. 219 ; Port Lcscbcuault, PreisSy n. 1926 ; 



Touc river, Maxwell; Muj-chisoii river, Oldfiehl 



The species is abundant in the temperate and subtropical rci^nons of the northern hemi- 

 sphere, and is also in New Zealand. "When on thcscacoast the lower leaves arc sometimes 

 tmeker, shorter, and more obtuse, but appear to me to be always veiy dilTereut from those 

 of C. Mdanella. 



. 6. C. Soldanella, Unn, Sp. PL 226. A glabrous pereiiuial \vith a crcep- 

 "»[? rootstock aiul prostrate trailing or shoi'tly twining stems. Leaves on 

 I'ather long petioles, broadly rounded-cordate or kidney-shaped, entire or 

 ?Jigular-Iohcd, rather thick, mo-tly about 1 in. but sometimes 2 in. diameter. 

 Peduncles 1-flowered, about as long as the leaves. Bracts broadly ovate- 

 coi'date, very obtuse, rather shorter than the calyx. Sepals nearly 4 ni^lotig, 

 '^i'oad and thin, nU very obtuse or the inner ones almost acute. Corolla 

 pmk or purplish, rather smaller than in C. septum. Ovary incompletely 

 -^-celled, surrounded by a cup-shaped disk. Stigmatic lobes ovate or oblong, 

 usually narrower than in C, sefium, much shorter and broader than m 

 ^ eruhescem. Capsule l-cdlQ^.—Calystcgia SoldaneUa, R, Br. ; Chois. in 

 ^y Prod. ix. 438 . TTnnV f V\ Tasin. i. 276 ; C. reniformis, 11. Br. Prod, 



„ .S.Wales. Scacoaat, Port Jackson, E. Brown, Sieber, WooUs ; Illuwarni, A, 



^'^nuinghariu 



Victoria. Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller (the specimens not in flower, aud thcre- 

 rore somewhat doubtful). 



Tasmania. Seashore, Circular Head, Gnnn. 



The species is eommou o.i the extrntropiral seacoasls in both the northern and southern 



J^-n si)l,eres both of the New and the Old World, induding New Zealand where ,t ^a^cs 



^"'■I' more t,l,a„ in the northern hemisphere. F. Mueller (Fragm.vi. 100) reduces .t to 



I'l'^mm, but those who are familiar- with the two species, at least in our northern bcn.t- 



!«"£, will scarcely agree to the union of forms so constantly distinct. 



4. POLYMEBIA, K. Br. 



Corolla very l.roadly carapanulate, entire or an-iilar. Ovary 2-ccUe(I, with 



; oyulo ill each cell. Style filiform, with several (4 to 8) or very rarely on ly 



* l»"ear stigmatic lobes. Fruit a dry capsule with 1 or 2 seeds.—Jirect. 



Pi-ostrate or trailing herbs, rarely twining. Leaves usually eutu-e. I edimcles 



^"i:iry. bearing 1 to 3 flowers. Bracts very small. 



The genas is lin.itcj to Australia. Closely allied to Convolvnlns \^ habit as ^^![ J^ '-J 

 ^l^aracter, it differs in the ovules reduced to 2 (1 only in each cell ot the ovaij), whilst the 



