32 XC, CONVOLVULACE^E (BAKER AND RENDLE). [Coiioolvulus. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Heudelot, -±03 ! 

 Also in Northern India. 



7. C. Deserti, Hochst. <fc Steud. in Herb. Un. Itin. 783 ; Steucl. 

 JYom. ed. 2, i. 408, name only. Suffruticose. Stems slender, terete, 

 spreading, somewhat sparsely hairy, with spreading or adpressed hairs. 

 Leaves linear-oblong with tapering base to linear-spathulate, sub- 

 sessile, the lower reaching 1| in. long in the African specimen, 

 usually shorter, blunt, adpressed, hairy on both surfaces, midrib promi- 

 nent beneath. Flowers borne in the leaf -axils along the whole length 

 of the stems. Peduncles slender, hairy like the stem, about 6 lin. long 

 in the African plant and bearing 1 or 2 closely aggregated flowers. 

 Bracts narrow, linear, about 3 lin. long, bearing (like the sepals) ad- 

 pressed and spreading pale brownish hairs. Sepals ovate, coriaceous 

 below with acuminate green herbaceous tips, subequal, 3 lin. long. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, 7 lin. long in the African plant, pallid with 

 darker pubescent midpetaline areas. — C. microphallus, Choisy in DO. 

 Proclr. ix. 402, partly. 



Sffile Land. Nubia : Sea-coast to between 3000 and 4000 ft., Sent ! 

 The African specimen consists of a small young plant with a few spreading steins, 

 the main one reaching 6 in. long. 

 Also in Arabia. 



8. C. littoralis, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 519. Stems several, 

 ascending up to 1 ft. long, simple, filiform, slightly pilose. Leaves distant, 

 small, oval-oblong, obtuse, subsessile, about 4 lin. long and half as 

 broad, on the short sterile shoot larger, narrowly oblong, narrowed to 

 the base, 1 in. long, including the short stalk, pilose on both sides, grey- 

 green. Flowers in small globose sessile or shortly peduncled clusters 

 down the stem, surrounded by many oblong, acute, silky bracts, which 

 are about as long as the calyx. Sepals narrowly lanceolate to oblong- 

 acuminate, about 2^ lin. long, very hairy. Corolla barely twice as long 

 as the calyx, hairy outside. Seeds minutely tubercled. — Hallier f. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 99, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 225. 

 C. sphce7'ophorus, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 221. 



DTile Land. Somahland : near Lasgori, Hildebrandt, 865b ; and without 

 precise locality, Miss Cole ! 



9. C. siibspatlmlatus, Vatke in Linncea, xliii. 520. An under- 

 shrub?, clothed upwards with reddish, somewhat silky pubescence; 

 branches elongated, about lh ft. long, branched above. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, subspathulate, about 6 lin. long up to 5 lin. broad, cordate or 

 fcubhastate at the base, very obtuse. Lower peduncles up to G lin. long ; 

 cymes involucrate, densely 1-3-flowered, scorpioid ; bracts foliaceous. 

 Sepals ovate, usually subobtuse, 2 lin. long, barely exceeding \ lin. 

 broad. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, hairy outside. Capsule 

 glabrous. Seeds black, glabrous, tubercled. — Hallier f . in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xviii. 100, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 226. 



STile Land. Somaliland : near Barava (Brava), Hildebrandt, 1312 ; Kirlc ! 

 near Faro River, Eiva, 1713. 



