Convolvulus.'] ci. cONVOLVULACE-ffi. (C. B. Clarke.) 



Seeds minutely papillose. There is hardly any difference between the seeds of C. 

 pluricaulis, rhyniospermus, and conglomeratus ; the papillae on the seeds of C. rhynio- 

 spermus are thicker, or somewhat scale-like. 



6. C. g-lomeratus, Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 401 ; leaves subsessile oblong 

 sparsely hairy, heads peduncled bracteate, sepals lanceolate hirsute, corolla 

 in. tubular mouth, narrow funnel-shaped. Wight Ic. t. 1366 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient^ 

 iv. 102. 



The PUNJAB, Vicary ; Scinde, Stocks, &c. DISTRIB. Cabul, Beloochistan to W. 

 Tropical Africa. 



Rootstock biennial or perennial ; stems 2-3 ft., diffuse, branched, sparsely hairy. 

 Leaves 5-!^ in. Peduncles j-3 in. ; bracts ^-1 in., leaflike ; or the heads sessile on 

 short axillary branches. Sepals ^ in., lanceolate, acute. Seeds puberulous. Closely 

 allied to C. rhyniospermus, but the flowers more numerous (often 6-10) in the head, 

 the habit much more diffuse, running into the following variety. 



VAR. volubilis ; stems distinctly twining, leaves and heads larger, petiole ^ in. 

 Punjab; Vicary. Scinde; Dalzell. 



7. C. Rottlerianus, Chois. Convolv. Or. 95, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 403 ; silky-villous. leaves sessile linear, peduncles 1-3-fld., sepals ovate suddenly 

 acuminate silky-villous, corolla scarcely in. subcampanulate. Wight in 

 Madras Journ. v. 7, t. 13 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 164. Retzia pilosa, Heyne j. 

 Wall. Cat. 6669 (not Evolvulus pilosus, Roxb.) 



W. DECCAN PENINSULA, from Bombay to Madura ; Bottler, &c. DISTRIB. Aff- 

 ghanistan. 



An erect, branched perennial. Leaves 1-2 in. Peduncles many, 1^ in. ; bracts | 

 in., linear-lanceolate ; pedicel (above the bracts) 0-i in. Sepals \ in. Capsule \ in. 

 ovoid, glabrous. Seeds puberulous. 



VAR. tenella, Stocks in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 172; sparingly silky not villous, 

 stems strict more slender. SCINDE ; Stocks. 



** Stems twining (see also C. glomeratus) ; stigmas narrowly oblong or 

 linear, shorter than the style. 



8. C. arvensis, Linn. ; Engl. Bot. t, 312 ; glabrous or soinewhat 

 pubescent, leaves ovate-cordate, auriculate or hastate, peduncles 1-3-fld., bracts 

 small, sepals elliptic obtuse glabrous or nearly so, corolla middle-sized purplish. 

 Roxb. Ifort. Seng. 14 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 97, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 406 ; 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 163 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 108. 0. Malcolmii, Roxb. 

 Hort. Bencj. 14, and Fl. 2nd. i. 474, and ed. Carey 8> Wall. ii. 55. C. divari- 

 catus, Wall. Cat. 1422. C. chinensis, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 322. 



WESTERN INDIA, from Kashmir to the Deccan ; a weed of cultivation. DISTRIB.. 

 Nearly all temperate and subtropical regions. 



Leaves 1-3 in., lower often lobed ; petiole -f in. Peduncles 1-2 in. ; bracts in., 

 linear ; pedicels -1 in. Sepals in., with or without a mucro. Corolla wide-funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous. Capsule %- in., glabrous. 



9. C. flavus, Willd. Sp. PL i. 852 ; innovations rusty-pubescent, leaves 

 hastately ovate-oblong angular toothed or lobed, peduncles 1-3-fld., bracts 

 small, sepals elliptic-lanceolate pubescent, corolla small yellowish. Chois. in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 415. 0. rufescens, Chois. Convolv. Or. 97, and in DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 408 ; Wight Ic. t. 1365. Evolvulus hederaceus, Burm. Fl. Ind. 77, t. 30, 

 fig. 2.Rheede Hort. Mai. viii. t. 27. 



Hills of S. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 3-6000 ft., frequent ; Wight, &c. 

 Leaves 1-3 in., in age nearly glabrous; petiole 1 in. Peduncles 1 in., not^rarely 

 paired in the same axil, pubescent ;, bracts scarcely | in. Sepals |-| in. ; wider m 



