98 XC. CONVOLVULACEyE (BAKER AND RENDLE). [Convolvulus. 



A. Rich. Tent. PI. Abyss, ii. 73 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. .850 ; 

 Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 108 ; Capua in Ann. Bot. Istit. Roma, 

 viii. 230. C. cirrhosus, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. lxiv. name only. 



Wile land. Abyssinia : near Gennia, Schimper, 133 ! Addi Dschoa, 7000 ft., 

 Schimper, 518 ! and without precise locality, Salt ! White Nile, Petheriok ! 

 Eritrea, 5000-8000 ft. : Assaorta, Pappi, 3506, 3445 ; Amasen, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 

 330, 2442 ; Ocule Cusai, Pappi, 4404, 3823, 3851 ; Bogos, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 

 2666; Mensa, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 1690, 1290. 



Widely spread in temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



21. C. Schweinfurthi, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 348. 

 Perennial. Stems twining, clothed with short brown hairs. Leaves 

 ovate-hastate, 1^—2 in. long, entire or obscurely crenate, rounded 

 at the apex with a small mucro, finely pubescent ; basal sinus broad and 

 open ; petiole 1-1^ in. long. Flowers 2-5 in a cyme ; peduncle long or 

 short, \-2 in. long ; pedicels longer than the calyx ; stout, more or less 

 quadrangular in section ; bracts minute, lanceolate, acute. Sepals 

 orbicular- ovate, pubescent, barely 3 lin. long. Corolla scarcely twice 

 as long as the calyx, hairy outside. Stamens half as long as the 

 corolla, resembling that of G. farinosus. Capsule globose, barely 4 lin. 

 in diam., glabrous, brown. Seeds 4, blackish, scabridulous. — Hallier f. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 105. 



Mile land. Eritrea, 4500-6500 ft. : Mensa, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 1073; 

 Amasen, Terracciano Sf Pappi, 179. Abyssinia : Anadehr, 7000 ft., Schimper, 

 599! 



Scarcely separable from C. farinosus. 



22. C. farinosus, Linn. Mant. 203. Stems slender, climbing, 

 pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, cordate-ovate, membranous, finely 

 pubescent, 1-3 in. long, usually irregularly and shallowly crenate, with 

 large rounded auricles, and a broad basal sinus. Cymes 1— 6-flowered 

 on long slender axillary peduncles ; pedicels long or short ; bracts 

 minute, lanceolate. Sepals coriaceous, 3 lin. long, elliptic, cuspidate 

 or acute, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Corolla 5 lin. long, white, 

 with brown ribs, pubescent at the tip of the short lobes. Capsule 

 globose, shortly pungent, 2-|- lin. in diam., glabrous, brown. Seeds 

 blackish, scabridulous — Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 412; Hallier f. in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 104 ; Baker & Wright in Dyer, PI. Cap. iv. ii. 74. G. 

 cordifolius, Thunb. Prodr. 35. G. Sprengelii, Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 416. G. quinqueflorus, Yahl, Symb. iii. 31. 



Iffile land. Eritrea : Haichello Kokob, north of Acrur, 5000 ft., Schwein- 

 fiirth Sf Siva, 1104! 



Mozamb, SSist. German East Africa : Usambara, Hoist, 672 ; Buchioalcl, 

 579 ! Karagwe, 4000 ft., Stuhlmann, 1727. 



Also in South Africa and the Mascarene Isles. 



23. C. fatmensis, Kunze in Flora, 1840, 172. Stems slender, 

 diffuse, 1-2 ft. long, pubescent towards the tip. Leaves distinctly 

 petioled, cordate-ovate, membranous, obtuse, h-lh in. long, thinly 

 pubescent, deeply and irregularly crenate with rounded auricles and a 



