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CONVOLVULACE^. (CONVOLVULUS FAMILY), 



lanceolate, acuminate, erect-connivent lobes; anthers longer than filament, 

 loith long, lanceolate ai:>i^endage; carpels .003 long — Spring —Rocky 

 places; Lebanon, Antilebanon, and northward. 



2. C. major, Lam. .5 to 1, more or less tubercled or ciliate, 

 or glabrescent-glaucous. Lower leaves obovate-spathulate, .15 to .2 

 long, tapering to a petiole, upper ovate-oblong, with cordate base. 

 Calyx-lobes oblong, rather acute, ciliate, .01 to .015 long in fruit; co- 

 rolla yellow or purple, more than twice as long as calyx, with short, 

 hroad, triangular, at length recurved teeth; anthers shorter than filament, 

 with short a'p'pcndage ; carpels .003 to ,004 long, .0025 to .003 broad 

 — Spring — Mountains of central and eastern Palestine. 



Order LXX. C0XV0L.VUL.ACE^, (Convolvulus Family). 



Chiefly twining or trailing herbs with alternate leases 

 (or scales)^ and regular^ ^-androus flowers^ a ^-plaited or 

 lohed, regular, tubular, car)ipanulate, or funnel-shaped co- 

 rolla (usually twisted in the bud), a '^A-celled, free ovary, 

 with 1-2 ovules in each cell', style 1, bifid, or 2 — Calyx 

 5-3epaled or 4-5-cleft, persistent ; stamens inserted near base 

 of corolla ; nectary annular, generally around ovary ; fruit 

 capsular, variously dehiscent, or a dry, indehiscent berry ; 

 seeds inserted at base of axis, with incomplete partitions be- 

 tween them at base of capsule; embryo coiled or curved, 

 with or without cotyledons. 



Fig. 254. 



Fig. 255. 



Fig. 254. Flower of an Ipomaea {a) The 5-parted calyx. (&) The broad -funnel-shaped, 

 plaited corolla. 



Fig. 255. The corolla laid open, showing the 5-stamens inserted near the base of the 

 corolla-tube. 



Tribe I EN€01VV0IjVUI«E.E. Leafy plants with crumpled cotyledons, and 

 urved, crumpled embryo. Sepals 5. Estivation plicate or induplicate 



