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8. ‘TRICOLORES 
One species; introduced. Native of Europe and Asia 24. C. pentapetaloides 
9. ARVENSES 
Foliage glabrous or nearly so; leaf-blades narrowly 
ovate-hastate, the basal auricles rounded or 
pointed and slightly spreading. Introduced. Na- 
tive of Europe 25. C. arvensis 
Foliage and stems tomentulose and pubescent with 
scattered long hairs, pale green; leaf-blades 
broadly ovate-hastate, the basal auricles spreading 
and acute 26. C. ambigens 
Convolvulus cyclostegius sp. nov. 
Stems slender, twining, glabrate or densely puberulent: 
leaf-blades triangular-lanceolate and hastate, 2-4cm. long, I-2.5 
em. broad at the base, acuminate at the apex, the basal auricles 
5-Iomm. long, obtusely angled, subdentate or rounded, some_ 
times spreading; middle portion of the blade less than 1cm, 
broad: petioles shorter than the blades: peduncles exceeding the 
subtending leaves, relatively stout, often miuricate-angled or 
winged above, 5-9 cm. broad: bracts orbicular or orbicular-ovate, 
I-I.5cm. long and as broad or broader, tinged with purple, 
rounded and mucronulate at the apex, the margins somewhat 
erose, closely investing the calyx and longer than the sepals: 
sepals thin and membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 10-14 mm. 
long/obtuse or subacute, subequal: corolla about 4cm. long, 
creamy, fading purple, the limb almost entire, about 5 cm. broad. 
Near Monterey, on the Carmel road, Hedler 6827, June 9, 
1903, (type), in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. Santa Barbara, A. D. &. Elmer 3765, May, 1902. 
Related to C. occidentalis A. Gray, from which it differs by 
its orbicular, roundea and mucronulate, purplish bracts, which 
in C. occidentalis are ovate-lanceolate and acute or acuminate. 
