Convolvulus. 765 
terminal flowers loosely cymose-subcapitate, pedicels shorter than 
the calyx; bracts subulate; sepals dense hirsute lanceolate, corolla 
rose-coloured, 4-times longer than the calyx; ovary hirsute. — 
Flow. January to March. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariut; Abusir; Alexandria-West. 
Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Western Marmarica and Southern Kurope. 
1067. (6.) Convolvulus Schimperi Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Orient., 
Ser. I fase. XI (1849), p.81. — Flor. Or. IV, p. 101. — A perennial 
plant, 30—50 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, hispid-woolly; 
stems prostrate or ascending. Leaves plaited, wavy-margined, 2 to 
6 cm long, oblong-spathulate, tapering to a long petiole. Flowers 
3—5 together in dense heads, on peduncles nearly as long as leaves; 
bracts and sepals lanceolate at base, linear-caudate at tip, very 
hispid; corolla white, 1 em long, scarcely longer than the calyx. 
— Flow. December. 
D. a. sept. Suez (Bornmiiller). 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Tropical Arabia. 
1068. (7.) Convolvulus secundus Desr. in Lam. Encyclop. II 
(1789), p.100 not R. P. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p.101. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ml. Flor. d’Eg., p. 107 no. 698. — Convolvulus salviaefolius 
Sieb. ex exsicc. in Herb. Berol. — A perennial plant, 36—60 cm 
high or sometimes somewhat more, silky-woolly; stems prostrate or 
ascending, leafy. Leaves on one side of the stem, wrinkled, the lower 
ones oblong-spathulate, petioled, 4—5 cm long, the others oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, sessile. Flowers 2—5 together in short-peduncled 
or sessile clusters, forming a one-sided, interrupted, leafy spike; 
bracts and sepals lanceolate; corolla white, 2 cm long, thrice as 
long as the calyx. — Flow. March. 
M. p. El-‘Arish? (not observed by Professor Ascherson!). — 
R. Suez? (only collected by Kotschy!). 
Also known from Palestine and Syria. 
1069. (8.) Convolvulus pilosellaefolius Desr.in Lam.Encyclop. III 
(1789), p. 107. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 103. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Il. Flor. @Eg., p.107 no. 699. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., 
p. 258. — Convolvulus Sogdianus Bunge in Plant. Lehm., p. 395. 
— A perennial plant, 50—80 cm high or more, branching from 
the neck, branches ascending or prostrate, more or less sparingly 
appressed-hirsute, bearing flowering branches from middle up. 
Leaves pale-green, hirsute, margin often repand-wavy, the lower ones 
oblong, tapering to a petiole, the upper ones sessile, lanceolate, acute, 
sometimes subcordate at the base. Flowers 1—5 together, cymulose, 
