433 LXXXI. CONVOLYULACEiE. ' [EtolvuluS. 



sile or nearly so, 3 to 6 lines long, but varying from ovate to almost linear, 

 obtuse or acute. Flowers small, pale blue or wliite, 1 to 3 together on 

 slender axillary peduncles mostly longer than the leaves, but the lower ones 

 sometimes shorter and the upper ones often long and filiform, forming a loose 

 terminal leafy raceme or narrow panicle. Bracts small under each pedicel. 

 Sepals narrow, acute. Corolla pale bine and white or entirely of one of 

 these colours, very open or almost rotate, about 3 lines diameter. — R. Br. 

 Prod. 489 ; E. linifollm, Linn. ; R. Br. Prod. 4S9 ; Chois. in DC. Prod. ix. 

 449; B. dccnmbens, R. Br. Prod. 489; E. viUosns, R. Br. Prod. 489, but 

 perhaps not of Ruiz and Pav. ; E. lieteropJiyttm, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 

 t. 29 ; Chois. in DC. Prod. ix. 449, and probably some others enumerated 

 by Choisy; E. pilosus, Roxb. P], lud. ii. 106. 



W. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; K.W. coast, Bj/noe, 

 Qregorys Expedition, etc.; Victoria river and Aruhcm's Land, F, Mtieller ; Port Essini,^- 

 tm.Armstronr;, A, Cunnhigliam ; in tlie interior, M'Bouall Stuarts Bxp edition^ 



Queensland. Abundant along the whole coast, E. Brown and many others ; and m 

 the interior, Mitchell, Bowen^ and others. 



^ N. S. "Wales. Clarence river, BeckJer ; New England, C. Stuart; from Darling 

 river to Cooper's Creek, Victorian and other Expeditions, 



S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Howites Expedition, 



W. Australia. Port Walcott, C. Harper (the following variety only). 



Var. serlcens. Leaves thicker and very white, with long silky hairs.— ^. argenteus, R. 

 Br. Prod. 489, not of Pursh.— Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Port Walcott, 



C. Harper, 



Irom soil and station. I had accordingly in the ' Nigef Floni/ as well as in the ll^ra 

 Hongkongcnsis/ proposed to unite the two under the name of K aMnoides ; F. Mueller 

 also nuitcs tlem, but prefers the other Liiinjean name of E. Umfolius. Amongst other 

 supposed Asiatic species. E. angudifolkis, Roxb. Tl. Ind. ii. 107, and E. graciUmmh 

 Aliq \\ Jnd Bat. ii. 629, appears to be a very narrow-leaved state which also occurs m 

 Austraha; the African sj-nonyms have been already given by Choisy, and to these ougm 

 probably to be added several American ones requiring further investigation. E. viM 

 ■Kuiz aud Pavon, appears however to differ in its flowers much larger than in Brown s spe- 



9. DICHONDEA, Foist. 



Corolla campanulate, deeply 5-lobecI. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, each 

 with an almost basal style and I or 2 ovules : sti-.uas capitate. Fruit ot i 

 or 2 membranous capsules, each vvitli 1 or rarely 2 seeds.-Prostrate creep- 

 ing small herbs. Leayes entire. Flowers small, axniaiy. 



Kew'f wi"! i^^^^f i^^/P^"'^. *{'i«h iB widely spread over the warmer re^o"^ «/'*'' 

 ^ew as well as the Old World, there is another closely allied to it from Central America. 



, 1. D. repens, Forst. ; Chois. in BO. Prod. ix. 451. A slender creep- 

 ing perennial rooting at the nodes, usually hoary with n minute pubesceuce, 

 ojtj«i6i ky. Leaves on long petioles, orbicular or reniform, 4 to 8 hues or 

 rai% 1 ,n. diameter. Flowers solitary, on peduncles shorter than tht 



