Convolvulus. ~\ xc. convolvulace^e (baker and rendm). 91 



4. C. Hildebrandtii, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 519. Perennial, 

 suffruticose ; sterns virgate, pilose, terete, slender ; branches very slender. 

 Lower leaves congested into a basal rosette, bearing long hairs, ob- 

 lanceolate, 1 in. long, repancl or subcrenate, narrowed at the base into 

 the petiole, shorter than the blade ; lower stem-leaves narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate, becoming rapidly narrower to linear as we ascend the stem. 

 Flowers 1-2, rarely 8-5, laxly cymose, on a very slender silky peduncle 

 2-3 in. long ; bracts short, acicular j pedicels short, 2 lin. long. Sepals 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, 1\- lin. long, with a few adpressed hairs en 

 the back. Corolla three times the length of the calyx, slightly silky on 

 the nerves. Capsule glabrous. Seeds black, pubescent. — Hallier f. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 97. C.jilipes, Balf. f. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xih 

 (1883) 22. 



Nile Land. Sonrililand : Coast plain, near Wodderi, Hildebrandt, 884 ! 

 Also in Socotra. 



5. C. microphyllus, Sieber ex Spreng. Syst. i. 611. Perennial, 

 suffruticose. Stems slender, terete, densely tufted, spreading, more or 

 less softly hairy. Cauline leaves generally less than 6 lin. long, rarely 

 9 lin., oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, subsessile, narrowed to the 

 base, hairy on both sides. Radical leaves narrowly spathulate, reach- 

 ing nearly 1 in. long. Flowers 1-3 together from the upper nodes of 

 the stem, generally nearly sessile, sometimes stalked, sometimes on 

 short flowering branches. Sepals ovate, acuminate, about 2| lin. long, 

 densely clothed with brown hairs. Corolla pinkish-white, funnel- 

 shaped, twice as long as the calyx, hairy outside. Capsule small, 

 globose. Seeds glabrous. — Choisy in DC. Proclr. ix. 402 ; Wight, Ic. t. 

 1867; Franch. Sert. Somal. 42, forma glabrescens. C. scindicus, Boiss. 

 Diag., ser. 2, hi. 123, not of Stocks. 



Nile Land. Nubia : Berber, Kotschy, 354 ! Wady Selem, east of Berber,. 

 Schiveinfurth, 2149; Dongoln, Ehrenbery ; near Wady Allagni and Wady El-Arab, 

 Letoumeux , 280. Somaliland, Revoil. 



Also in Egypt, and extending through Arabia to Scind. 



6. C. pl'u.rica'o.liSj Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve^ vi. 477. 

 Perennial, suffruticose, ferruginously pilose. Stems slender, terete 

 suberect or ascending or spreading, regularly leaved. Leaves linear- 

 oblanceolate, nearly 1|- in. long and shortly petioled below, becoming 

 smaller, less than 1 in., linear-oblong, subsessile above the base, blunt, 

 hairy on both sides. Flowers solitary or in pairs, shortly stalked or 

 subsessile in the leaf -axils ; bracts linear, less than 8 lin. long. Calyx 

 densely silky hairy ; sepals subequal, 2|- lin. long, lanceolate to ovate, 

 pallid and coriaceous, with green herbaceous acuminate tips. Corolla 

 shortly funnel-shaped, pallid, 4 lin. long, hairy in bud. Capsule glo- 

 bose, stramineous, less than 2 lin. in diam. Seeds 4, brown, unequally 

 shortly pubescent. — Choisy in DC. Proclr. ix. 403 ; Hallier f. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xviii. 98. See also Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 468, and C. B. 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 218. 



