Convolvulacea.] flora of Tasmania. W 
A very curious, perennial species. — Stents densely matted and unite P TOStott e , fc-fl bflfceakog. i>flr« ob- 
ovate, coriaceous, narrowed at the base, subsessile, somewhat ciUated. Flowers sessile, tenniiial. ' 
four-lobed; two lobes somewhat broader than the others. Corolla short. AMm 
tinct. Cap-vile 2 lines broad, truncate, obscurely two-lobed, in uch DOmprei unit from the 
inflexion of the margins of the carpels, four- to six-seeded. — Plait. LXXW 1 1 1. ( '. I"._ 
corolla removed; 3, corolla laid open, showing the ovary; 4, fruit and calyx; .">, ditto, calyx Ml 
section of ditto : — all magnified. 
Nat. Ord. LIV. CONVOLVULACEiE. 
A considerable number of plants of this Order inhabit Australia, but owing to the rapid failing of the 
corolla of many of the tropical species, they have been either neglected or preserved in a state unfit for 
examination; thus, of fifty-three species described in Brown's 'Prodromus,' many, especially oi 
Convolvulus, are unknown to us; and of about an equal number of which we have specimens, there are not 
a few that are undeterminable, partly owing to the briefness of the diagnoses in the 'Frodiomna,' and 
partly to the specimens being in an imperfect state. Probably there are about sixty known Australian species, 
by far the greater majority of which are tropical, and some of them common to many pans 
Amongst the most conspicuous of these are the Calystegui Septum ami s ■',/., ,,,-l/a, which are band m 
almost all temperate regions of both the northern and southern hemisphere* ; On u i ( n ' 
pens, and several species of Evokvlus, which inhabit many tropical countries ol the Old ami Nei Offb ; 
and lastly, various species of Fharbitis, Ipomcea, and Batatas, winch lie common Bm Indian rod Uly- 
nesian plants. Altogether, My one-third of the Australian Convolvulacca arc found in other part- of the 
globe; and one genus alone, Wilsonia, is confined to that continent and Tasmania, and to the south 
and especially south-west coast. 
Gen. I. CONVOLVULUS, L. 
Calyx ebracteatus v. bracteis 2 parvis suffultus, 5-partitus. Corolla 5-loba, campanula v. infundi- 
buliformis, lobis plicatis. Stamina subasqualia, limbo corolla breviora. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 2- 
ovulatis; stylo indiviso; stigmatibus 2 filiformibus. Capsula 2-locularis.— Herbs v. suffrutices, lacks- 
centes, volnbiles v.prostrata; foliis alternis ; floribus plerumque amplis. 
Only four or five Australian species of this genus are known: they are prostrate or ran lj twining h As, « rtb 
generally milky juice, alternate Leaves, and handsome, campanulate flowers.— Calyx five-lobed, with - 
its base or none. Corolla between infundibuliform and campanulate, with five by. *d 
Stamens nearly equal, shorter than the limb of the corolla. Ovary two-celled, uith Bom Drubs, ■ mnpk rtj e, am 
two linear stigmas. (Name, an ancient one, derived from the twining habit of the species.) 
1. Convolvulus erubescens (Sims, Bot. Mag. 1067); caule volubili v. prostrato pilosiusculo, 
foliis haatatis tripartitisve lobis lateralibus incisis lobatisve intermedio elongato ovato n . Imean, [>< dun, uh> 
1-3-floris, sepalis ovatis mucronatis, capsulis erectis nutantibusve, seminibus scabris.— r/,.... v , , VC.Proir. 
ix. 412 ; Fl. JS\ Zeal. i. 185. C. erubescens et C. angustissimus, Br. Prodr. 482. An C. remotus, r. 
I.e.? {Gunn, 52, 7£1.) 
Hab. Abundant in good soil throughout the Colony.— (PL Sept.-Xov.) {v. V.) 
Disteib. Subtropical and temperate Australia ; New Zealand; Mediterranean region, from Spam to 
Persia and Xorth Africa ? ; temperate South America and the Andes ? ; South Africa ?. 
A very common and extremely variable plant, more or less pubescent.-^ slender, 6-18 inches long. 
