Convolvulus. 767 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruga; Mariut; Alexandria-West and 
-East. — M. p. Damietta; el-’Arish; Sath. 
Local name: *ulleyq; Khucytéme (Ascherson). 
Also known from all the other parts of the Mediterranean basin. 
1072. (11.) Convolvulus arvensis L. Spec. Plant. 1 (1753), 
p. 218. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 108. — Rchbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 136 
fig. I. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 107 no. 702. — 
Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 259. — Stapf, Addit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 368. — Choisy in DC. Prodrom. IX, p. 406. — 
Convolvulus cirrhosus R. Br. in Salt Abyss. Plant. App., p. XIV. 
— Perennial. Stem wide-climbing, glabrous or slightly pubes- 
cent. Leaves ovate-hastate, 2—5 cm long, with spreading or 
deflexed usually acute basal lobes; petiole 1—2,5 cm long. Flowers 
1—3, laxly cymose; peduncle long, slender, flexuose; pedicels Jonger 
than the calyx, 1—2 em; bracts short, narrowly linear. Sepals 
coriaceous, subequal, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 5 mm long, glabrous 
or slightly pubescent, especially n othe margin. Corolla broadly 
funnel-shaped, 18 mm long, pinkish or white. Capsule globose, 
glabrous, 6mm in diam. Seeds glabrous. — Flow. December 
to April. 
M. ma. Marmarica: Matruqua; Alexandria-West and -Hast; 
Mandara; Abukir. — M. p. Damietta abundantly in waste places. 
— N.d. N.f. N.v. Common in waste places, and on way-sides, 
often in fields as a weed. — O. Siwa; Little Oasis; Farafra; Dakhel; 
Great Oasis. 
Local name: muddsyd (Ascherson); generally: *ulleyq; tarbish- 
el-ghorab. 
Everywhere in the Mediterranean basin, Kurope and Asia. 
1073. (12.) Convolvulus fatmensis Kunze in Flora (1840), 
p. 172. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 109. — Hallier fil. in Engleis Bot. 
Jahrb. XVIII, p.108. -— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Kg., p. 107 
no. 703. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 259. — Stems slender, 
diffuse 30--60 cm high or sometimes somewhat more, pubescent 
towards the tip. Leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, mem- 
branous, obtuse 1—3 cm long, thinly pubescent, deeply and irregu- 
larly crenate with rounded auricles and a broad basal sinus; petiole 
often as long as the blade. Flowers 1—2 on short sparsely pubescent 
axillary peduncles, 18 mm long or shorter; bracts short filiform. 
Sepals subequal, 6 mm long, coriaceous, obovate, with rounded apex- 
pedicels shorter than the calyx. Corolla less than 12 mm _ hairy 
outside, white with brown stripes. Capsule globose, 6 mm in diam. 
Seeds glabrous. — Flow. February to April. 
