232 LXXXTIII. CONYOLVULACEiE. 



Corolla- campauulate, |-1| in- long, white, with hairy bands outside. Cap- 

 sules ^ in. long, ovoid, glabrous, silky within. Seeds black, fringed with a 

 ring o£ short scaly hairs round the margin, otherwise glabrous. Wight, 

 Icon. t. 850; Grrah. Cat. p. 133; Dalz. & Gribs. p. 1U3. Aniseia mar- 

 tinicensis, Choisy, Convolv. Ear. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. v. 8, part 1 

 (1838) p. 6Q. Ipomoea uniflora, Eoem. & Sch. Syst. v. 4 (1819) p. 247 

 {not of Blume) ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. PI. B. I. v. 4, p. 201. 



Rare. Konkan : ^.'Korik&n, Balzell ^' Gibson. — Distrib. Througbout India; Malaja, 

 Fiji Islands, Tropical Africa. 



10. CONVOLVULUS, Linn. 



Herbs or uudershruhs erect, prostrate or rarely twining, sometimes 

 spinescent. Leaves entire, toothed or lobed. I'lowers axillary, solitary 

 or in cymes. Sepals 5, usually subequal. Corolla campauulate or 

 inf undibuliform ; limb plicate, subeutire. Stamens 5, attached near the 

 base of the corolla, included ; filaments filiform, often unequal. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigmas 2, linear or oblong, distinct. 

 Capsule 2-celled, 4-vaived or irregularly rupturing. Seeds normally 4, 

 glabrous. — Distkib. Tropical and temperate climates ; species about 

 160. 



Erect undershrubs, not prostrate nor twining. 



Leaves obovate or spatlniiate, plicate, \-^ in. long 1. C. scivdicus. 



Leaves linear, acute, not plicate, 1-2 in. long 2. C. Rottlcrianus. 



Prostrate berbs or under.slirubs not twining (except in 

 C. (jlittueraius, var. voluhilis). 

 Ktigmas filiform. 



Corolla infundibuliforin ; mouth wide, very sballowly 



lobed ; seeds not tuberculate 3. C. microphyllns. 



Corolla tubular, deeply lobed ; seeds minutely tuber- 

 culate 4. C. rhijnioapermits. 



Stigmas clavate or elliptic-oblong .5. C. ijhnucriilus. 



A twining herb; stems often twisted together 6. C. arveuds. 



1. Convolvulus scindicus, Stocl-s, in Kew Joitrn. Bof. v. 4 (1852) 

 p. 173 (not of Boiss. Diagn. ser. ii. n. 3, p. 123). A much-branched 

 I'igid erect bush 1 or rarely 2 ft. high and 2-3 ft. in circumference, with 

 intricate grey or fulvous velvety-tomentose stiff close branches spreading 

 on all sides ; branchlets ending abruptly, sometimes spinescent. Leaves 

 small on the flowering branches ;j by ^ in. almost sessile, on the young 

 leafy shoots | by g in. with a petiole ^ in. long, obovate or spathulate, 

 entire, plicate, densely velvety, the nerves prominent beneath. Flowers 

 sessile, in congested rufous-hirsute heads at the ends of the branchlets ; 

 bracts beneath the calyx ovate-lanceolate, densely hairy. Sepals | in. 

 long, unequal, linear-lanceolate, densely hirsute with long fulvous or 

 rufous hairs. Corolla | in. long, white with pink hairy bands (Steels), 

 infuudibuliform, the limb with 5 distinct acute lobes. Ovarj- glabrous. 

 Capsules not seen. Tl. B. lud. v. 4, p. 217 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, 

 p. 90 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 172. Convolvulus 

 hrachypltyllus, Boiss. Diagn. sdr. ii. n. 3, p. 122. — Flowers : Aug. 



In the Bombay Presidency occurs in Sind. SiNn : Garra, SfocJcs, 433!; 12 miles 

 east of Bula-Kbdn, Woodrow. — Distiub. Belucliislan. 



