764 Convolvulaceae. 
Rosetta; Qatiya to el-‘Arish. — D. 1. A common plant in deep sandy 
places. — D. i. Nefish; Ismailia. — D. a. sept. Cairo; Gebel ahmar; 
Great Petrified Forest; often in the mouths of the Wadies. — Every- 
where a favorite forage for camels. 
Local name: hbeyad (Forsk.); breheyma (Schimp.); rehama 
(Schweinfurth); rekham (Ascherson). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1064. (3.) Convolvulus Doryenium L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 224. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 91. — Sibth. and Smith Flor. graec., 
tab. 201. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 258. — A shrubby 
plant, 50—80 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, appressed- 
hirsute, divaricately branched, intricate, panicled. Leaves sessile, the 
lower ones oblong-spathulate to elliptical, 2—6 cm long, the upper ones 
linear. Cymes terminal, 1—3-flowered, on a long peduncle; pedicels 
with 2, minute bracteoles a little below the flower; sepals round- 
obovate, obtuse or retuse, mucronate; corolla 2 cm long, pink, five 
times as long as the calyx. — Flow. December to March. 
M. ma. Alexandria-West. 
Also known from Greece and Orient. 
1065. (4.) Convolvulus lineatus L. Spec. Plant. [ (1753), p. 224. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.97. — Rehbch. Ic. XVUI tab. 134 fig. IV. 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p.107 no. 697. — An under- 
shrub, 5—50 cm high, appressed-silky, many-stemmed from a woody 
root; stems ascending or procumbent, simple or somewhat branched. 
Leaves oblong to linear, 2—4 em long, the lower long-tapering to 
a petiole. Cymes at end of branches, 3—1-flowered; pedicels shorter 
than the calyx; sepals oblong-lanceolate, membranous at the base, 
herbaceous at the tip; corolla pink, 1,5—2 em long, twice to twice 
and a half as long as the calyx. — Flow. January to March. 
M. ma. Alexandria near Dekheyla (Khrenberg). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Southern Europe, 
Caucasia, Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia. 
1066. (5.) Convolvulus oleaefolius Desr. ap. Lam. Encyclop. Il 
(1789), p. 552. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 93. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Il. Flor. @Eg., p.107 no. 696. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 659 no. 217. — Convolvulus Tournefortii Sieb. exsice. 
in Hort. Berol. — Convolvulus linearis Bot. Mag. tab. 289 not of 
Linnaeus. — Convolvulus lineatus Sibth. and Smith Flor. graec., 
tab. 199 not of Linn. — Appressed-silky, shrubby at the base; 
branches herbaceous erect, elongate, leafy, simple or strictly branching; 
lower leaves linear-spathulate, the other ones narrow-linear, obtuse; 
