220 ci. CONVOLVULACEJ}. (C. B. Clarke.) [Convolvulus. 



fruit. Corolla | in., hairy at the tip in the bud. Ovary and filaments glabrous. 

 Capsule 3- in., ovoid, 2-celled, irregularly breaking up. Seeds glabrous. 



10. C. parviflorus, Vahl Symb. iii. 29; pubescent or nearly glabrous, 

 leaves ovate-cordate acute entire, cymes small dense many-fld. peduncled, 

 corolla % in. tubular narrow-mouthed pink or white. Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey 

 $ Wall ii. 51; Chois, Convolv. Or. 98, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 413; Dak. J 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 163; Benth. FL Austral iv. 430. 0. asclepiadeus, Wall Cat. 

 1396. Ipomaea paniculata, Burm. Fl Ind. 50, t. 21, fig. 3. I. parviflora, 

 Pers. Syn. i. 183, not of Vahl 



ASSAM ; Jenkins. DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; frequent. DISTRIB. S.E. 

 Asia, Malaya, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



Stems slender. Leaves lj-3 in., shallowly cordate; petiole -1 in. Peduncles 

 mostly longer than the p'etioles ; cymes subcapitate; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals |- 

 in., ovate-caudate, pubescent. Corolla-lobes short, acute. Stigmas short, linear. 

 Capsule ^ in., globose, glabrous. Seeds glabrous. Much resembling Jacqiienwntia 

 cc&rulea (cultivated often in India), which has a wider mouthed bright-blue corolla 

 and shorter elliptic- oblong stigmas. 



11. C. microcalyx, Clarke ; leaves ovate-cordate acute stellately fulvous- 

 tomentose beneath, cymes compound subsessile, sepals in. elliptic obtuse, 

 corolla in. 



Cultivated (in the Calcutta gardens?) from Assam? 



Stems slender, elongate, villous, twining. Leaves 1-J in., shallowly cordate, 

 pubescent above ; petiole i in. Peduncles very short, or 0, i.e., peduncles several 

 from each axil, fulvous-tomentose ; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals subscarious, nearly 

 glabrous. Corolla of C. parviflorus, glabrous. Ovary glabrous ; style long, stigmas 

 filiform slightly clavate. Fruit not seen. The examples are noted as cultivated ; 

 but, if the plant was not brought in from the Assam jungles, it is not known whence 

 it came. 



C. glandulosus, Wall. Cat. 2252, and C. Tarita, Wall. Cat. 2253, are absent from 

 Wallich's Herbarium. 



10. E VOLVULUS, Linn. 



Small, hairy herbs, or undershrubs. Leaves small, entire. Floivers small, 

 1-3 together, peduncled. Sepals subequal, unaltered in fruit. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; limb 5-plaited, subentire. Stamens included or exserted, filaments 

 filiform. Ovary 2-1-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, separate from the base, each 

 cleft into 2 linear or subclavate stigmas. Capsule globose, 4-2-valved, nor- 

 mally 4-seeded. Seeds glabrous ; cotyledons doubly folded radicle incumbent. 

 Species 70, in all hotter climates, more numerous in America. 



1. E. alsinoides, Linn ; Benth. Fl Austral iv. 437, with all syn. 

 except E, pilosus, Roxb. ; sparsely or densely silky-hairy white fulvous or 

 almost rufous, leaves linear oblong or wide-elliptic, sepals | in. lanceolate 

 hairy, corolla \-^ in. blue or white. Burm. fl. Zeyl 9, t. 6, fig. 1 ; Wall Cat. 

 1317; Roxb. Cat. PI (1813), and Fl Ind. ii. 105; Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 447 ; Wight III t. 168 bis, fig. 10 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, iv. 113. E. linifolius, 

 Linn. ; Chois. I c. 449. E. angustifolius, Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 

 107. E. hirsutus, Lamk. Enc. iii. 538, and III t, 216, fig. 2 ; Chois. I c. 447 

 (syn. Koxb. "'&rc/.)V Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162. E. sericeus, Wall. Cat. 

 1315. Convolvulus valerianoides, Blanco. Fl Filip. 90. Rheede Hort. Mai 

 xi. t. 64. 



