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3. Convolvulus Rottlerianus, Choisy, Convolv. Orient, in Mem. 

 Soc. FhyR. Genev. v. 6 (1834) p. 477. Perennial, erect, 9-10 in. high 

 during its first year with scarcely-branclied leafy silky-villous stems, 

 afterwards branching, the plant ultimately reaching a height of 18 in. 

 or more. Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, 1-2 by i-^ in., linear, 

 aciite^ silky-hairy. Flowers 1-3 in a lax raceme ; peduncles axillary, 

 very slender, silky-hairy, ultimately reaching sometimes Ig in. long or 

 more; pedicels ^-j in. long, filiform ; bracts 2 beneath each pedicel, 

 |— ^ in. long, linear-lanceolate, very acute, silky. Sepals | in. long, the 

 outer ovate, very acute, hirsute outside, the inner membranous, acuminate, 

 hairy near the apex. Corolla tubular, less than | in. long, hairy outside 

 near the top ; limb shortly 5-lobed. Stamens unequal. Ovary glabrous ; 

 stigmas filiform, g in. long. Capsules 1 in. in diam., siibglobose, glabrous. 

 Seeds puberulous. Fl. B. I. v. 4,' p. 219; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 164; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 172.— Flowers : Sept.- 

 Oct. 



Eare in the Bombay Presidency. Deccan : Junnar, Woodrow ! ; Lenyadi Hill 

 (Poona, districts), Kaniikar I — Distrib. ladia (W. Peninsula); Afghanistan. 



Var. teiieJla, 0. B. Carke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. Ind. v. 4, p. 219. Sepals 

 glabrous outside. Convolvulus tenellas (sp.), Stocks, in Kew Journ. Bot. 

 V. 4 (1852) p. 172. 



Dalzell, no. 57 ! (without locality). Sind : Stocks, 598 ! — Distrib. Baluchistan. 



3. Convolvulus microphyllus, >Sieb. ex Spreng. Syst. v. 1 (1825) 

 p. 611. Procumbent or suberect, not twining, fulvous-villous ; stems 

 suffruticose at the base, 6-20 in. long, often floriFerous from near the 

 base. Leaves |-1 in. long, linear-oblong or the upper elliptic, obtuse, 

 niucronate, subsessile, villous on both sides, base tapering. Flowers 

 axillary or on short lateral branches, solitary or 2-4 together, sessile 

 or shortly pedunculate ; bracts beneath the calyx ^ in, long, linear- 

 lanceolate, hairy. Sepals | in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, hairy on 

 both sides, the 3 outer slightly broader than the 2 inner. Corolla rose- 

 yellow (C. B. ClavL-e), ^-k in. long, infundibuliform, with hairy bands 

 outside; limb shallowly 5-lobec], the lobes deltoid, acute, with a tuft 

 of hair at the apex of each. Stamens unequal. Ovary glabrous, seated 

 on a cup-shaped disk; stigmas ^ in. long, filiform. Capsules ellipsoid 

 or subglobose, g in. long, smooth. Seeds Jq in. long, glabrous, scarcely 

 papillose. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p, 218 ; "Wight, icon. t. 1367; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 164; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 103; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, 

 V. 12 (1898) p, 172.— Flowers: Oct, 



• Confined in the Bombay Presidency to Gujarat and Sind. Gujarat : common, 

 Dalzell \ ; Kathiawar, Chester Macnaghten\ ; Porbandar (Kathiawar), Coo^'e ! Sind: 

 Dalzell 4~ Gibson, Stocks, 402 I ; Landi near Karachi, Cooke ! ; Hyderabad, Woodrow !, 

 Bhola Pi/ranl; Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, Stocks, 82!; Mulir, Woodrow; 

 Boogta hills, Vicary\ — Distrib. Beluchistan to Egypt and Nubia. 



4. Convolvulus rhyniospermus, Hoclist. ex Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 

 V. 9 (1845) p. 405. Stems many from a woody rootstock, 6-15 in. 

 long, terete, slender, more or less pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 1-1 in. long, acute or subobtuse, mucronulate, sparsely hairy ; petioles 

 J^ in, long, hairy. Flowers in axillary few-flowered densely villous 



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