563 CONVOLVULACE^. (CONVOLVULUS FAMILY). 



lower surface, short-petioled, minutely and obtusely cordate-hastate^ 

 the lower ovate, the upper oblong, acute. Head globular, on axillary 

 peduncles, longer than leaves, loosely racemed ; bracts leafy, acuminate, 

 longer than calyx ; sepals villous, oblong, acuminate ; corolla white, 

 glabrous, scarcely as long as calyx — Ford of ed-Damieh (Jordan). 



14. C. piloseliaBfolius, Desr. % .5 to .8 or more, branching 

 from 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 oblong, 

 tapering to a petiole, the upper sessile, lanceolate, acute, sometimes 

 subcordate at base. Flowers 1-5 together, cymulose, the cymes form- 

 ing a loose raceme, pedicels shorter than calyx; sepals hairy, elliptical, 

 acute, herbaceous at tip ; corolla pink, twice to thrice as long as calyx, 

 .01 to .013 long, hairy at angles; capsule ovate, glabrous — April to 

 July — Waste places; el-Ghor; Qaryetein. 



15. C. Oalaticu§, Rostan. If -3 to .6, densely silky-woolly, 

 flexuous. hesLYBS mo?'e 07' less plaited, ciineate-ovate to ovate-cordate, .02 

 to .03 long, sinuate-margined, often obscurely 3-5-lobed, the upper- 

 most acute. Peduncles axillarj^, as long as leaf or longer, 1-3-flowered; 

 pedicels about as long as calyx ; bracts setaceous; sepals ovate-elliptical, 

 short-acuminate; corolla .02 long, imrinle, 3-4-(:imes as long as calyx; 

 seeds netted-wrinkled — Spring — Grassy places ; Aintab, Marash, and 

 northward. 



Var. all>ifloru§, Post. Indument finer. Flowers white — Aintab ; 

 Marash. (<7. Germanicim, Boiss. et HaussK). 



16. C. hirsut«§, Stev. If .6 to 1, more or less hirsute with 

 yellowish hair, decumbent or cJimbing. Lamina of leaves as long as 

 petiole to four times as long, oblong -cordate to corda.te-hoMate, auricles, 

 entire or dentate-lobed. Peduncles much longer than leaves, 3-1- 

 flowered; pedicels as long as calyx or longer; bracts Zmear; sepals 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate or obtuse and mucronate ; corolla .02 to .03 

 iono-, pinkish or yelloAvish, four times as long as calyx ; seeds tubercled 

 — Spring — Fields and hedges; common. 



Yar. toineiitosii§, Boiss. Leaves pannous-silky — Lebanon. 



17. C. steiiopliyllus, Boiss. % .6 to 1, appressed-tomentel- 

 lous, decumbent. Leaves cordate-auricied to hastate at base, with 

 wavy, crenate, or serrate-lobed margins, the lowest cordate to oblong, 

 long-petioled, the upper or all linear-lanceolate to linear. Peduncles 3-1- 

 flowered, as long as leaves or longer ; pedicels about as long as 

 calyx; bracts minute, awl-shaped; sepals ovate, obtuse, sometimes 

 mucronate; corolla yellow, .02 long, four times as long as calyx — May 

 and June — Bushy places ; Lebanon and Antilebanon, and Phoenician 

 plain. 



1§. C, altli^Boides, L. % .5 to 1, appressed-villous orhirsute, 

 diffuse or climbing. Lower leaves long-petioled, cordate-ovate, obtuse- 

 ly crenate or lobed ; upper pedate-cleft or parted, with oblong to linear^ 

 entire to dentate lobes. Peduncles much longer than leaves, 1-2-flower- 

 ed ; pedicels longer than calyx ; bracts setaceous ; sepals ovate-oblong, 

 scarious-margined, sometimes mucronulate; corolla pinli,, .02 to .03 



