106 CONVOLVULACE^. [CONVOLVULUS. 



Common within the area, especially on sandy or rocky ground. 

 DISTRIB. Punjab Plain, and eastwards to Behar and Chota Nagpnr ; 

 found also in Senegal. 



VAB. macra 0. B. Clarlte in F.B.I. I.e. E volvulus pilosus, Roxl. Fl. Ind. ii> 

 106. A larger and more densely hairy plant. Leaves oblong. Sepals 

 elliptic-lanceolate, rufous-hirsute. Corolla f-f in. long. -Common in 

 the Punjab Plain and up to 3,000 ft. in Kashmir, extending eastwards to 

 Eohilkhand. 



2. C. arvensis, Linn. Sp. PI. ]53 ; Eoyle III. 208 ; F. B. I. iv, 219 f 

 Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 338; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 235, C. Malcolmi, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 474. (Small Bindweed.) 



A glabrous or somewhat pubescent herb with a slender creeping root- 

 stock. Stems many, trailing or twining, angular. Leaves petioled, 1-3 

 in. long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse and apiculate at the apex, 

 entire or (the lower ones ) sometimes lobed, base auriculate or hastate j 

 petioles -f in. long. Peduncles 1-2 in. long, solitary, slender, with a 

 pair of small linear bracts at the summit from , the axils of which the 

 pedicels arise ; pedicels up to 1 in. long, each except the primary one 

 2-bracteolate beyond the middle. Sepals $ in. long, unequal, broadly 

 elliptic, obtuse and sometimes mucronate, glabrous or nearly so. Corolla 

 widely funnel-shaped, f-in. long, pink or white with a pale-yellow 



. centre, glabrous. Capsule ^-f in. in diam., globose, glabrous. Seed 

 subtrigonous, dark reddish-brown. 



Common as a weed of cultivation, especially in the drier western portion 

 of the area. Flowers during the cold season. DISTRIB. From Kashmir 

 and the Punjab Plain to^the Deccan, Western Himalaya up to 10,000 ft.; 

 also widely distributed in nearly all temperate and subtropical regions 

 of the world. Well-known in Britain as a troublesome agricultural 

 pest. 



8. JACQUEMONTIA, Choisy. 

 UNDER CONVOLVULUS IN FL. BRIT. IND. 



Twining herbs or undershrubs, rarely prostrate. Leaves tonally 

 cordate, entire or rarely toothed or lobed. Flowers in axillary com- 

 pound umbellate or capitate cymes, rarely solitary, bracts usually 

 small. Sepals equal or unequal. Corolla small, tubular or funnel- 

 shaped, limb plicate, the vertical bands ending in 2 distinct nerves. 

 Stamens included. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, 4-cvuled, style filiform ; 

 stigmas 2, linear or elliptic-oblong. Fruit a globose, 2-celled usually 

 8-valved capsule. Seeds normally 4, usually glabrous, often with the 

 margins slightly winged. Species about 60, chiefly in Trop. America. 



