560 CONVOLVXJLACEiE. (CONVOLVULUS FAMILY). 



1. C. hystrix, Yahl. 5 Shibrim. Shibriq. Shubruq. 1 to 3, 

 erinaceous, more or less beset with appressed or spreading hairs, twigs 

 spiny. Leaves small, nearly sessile, truncate-subauricled at base, oi- 

 hng, the lower .01 long, the upper scale-like. Flowers sessile, solitary 

 or 2-3 together at base of twigs and in axils, subtended by an involucre 

 of oblong bracts with somewhat recurved tips ; sepals scarious, hirsute, 

 oborate, hooded, mucronate, the inner narrower ; corolla hirsute, nar- 

 row, scarcely twice as long as calyx ; ovary glabrous — March and 

 April — Wadi Hebran (Sinai), and westward in Egyptian Desert. 



2. C. la]iatu§, Vahl. 5 Barhaimeh. Rehdmah. .2 to .4; newer 

 branches woolly, older naked. Leaves grey, puberulent, oblong-spath- 

 ulate, .015 to .04 long, tapering to a petiole, the upper sessile, lanceo- 

 late. Flowers clustered, sessile, forming interrupted spikes; sepals 

 villous; corolla pinkish- white, silky, .02 to ,03 long, twice to thrice as 

 long as calyx — Spring — Beershaba and southward. A favorite forage 

 for camels and sheep. 



3. C. Dorycnium, L. 71 .5 to .8, appressed -hirsute, divari- 

 rately branched, intricate, pauicled. Leaves sessile, the lower oblong- 

 spathulate to elliptical, .03 to .06 long, the upper linear. Cymes 

 terminal, 1-3-flowered, on a long 2^^duncle; pedicels with 2, minute 

 bracteoles a little below the flower ; sepals round-obovate, obtuse or 

 retuse, mucronate; corolla .02 long, pink, five times as long as calyx — 

 Summer — 



Var. oxysepalus, Boiss. Sepals narrower, cuspidate — Com- 

 mon, especially in interior plains. 



4. C. liol©§ericeu§, M.B. % .2 to .3, apjyressed-silhy, glossy, 

 shrubby at base ; stems ascending or procumbent, slender. Lower ■ 

 leaves lanceolate, tapering to a petiole, the others linear-lanceolate to 

 linear, sessile. Flowers nearly solitary in upper axils, short- or long- 

 peduncled; corolla white, silky outside, .035 long, 3-4 times as long as 

 calyx — Spring — Dry hillsides; Aintab, and northward. 



5. C. Caiitabrica, L. If .3 to .4, hirsute with a2jpressed or 

 spreading hairs or villous; stems slender, decumbent or erect. Leaves 

 green, the lower oblong-spathulate, tapering to a petiole, the upper 

 sessile, oblanceolate to linear Cymes l-d-Jioicered, long-p)eduncled, ter- 

 minal, forming a loose 'panicle; sepals injiated lelow, cuspidate-acuminate ; 

 corolla pink, hirsute along nerves outside, .015 to .02 long, thrice as 

 long as calyx —April to June — Dry hillsides; common throughout. 



Var. villo§u§, Post. Soft villous — Woods ; Mt. Cassius. 



6. C. Aucheri, Choisy. If .6 to .8, woolly-villous, with short ap- 

 pressed, and long spreading hairs; stems stiff, di&hotomously and intri- 

 cately branched from an indurated root-stock. Lower leaves ovate, in- 

 termediate sessile, ovate-lanceolate, .03 to .04 long, floral oblong-lanceo- 

 late. Cymes 3- (or generally by abortion) 1-flowered, terminal, forming 

 a hose, leafy, S2)7'€ading panicle; pedicels a little shorter than calyx ; 

 sepals oblong, abruptly cuspidate ; corolla pink, hirsute outside, nar- 

 row, .02 long, four times as long as calyx — April and May — Amanus 

 to Aintab. 



