Oonvohulus.'] ci. convolvulace^; (C. B. Clarke.) 219 



Seeds minutely papillose. — There is hardly any difference between the seeds of 0. 

 phmamlis, rhi/niospermus, and conglomeratus ; the papillae on the seeds of C. rhynio- 

 spermiis are thicker, or somewhat scale-like. 



6. C. g'lomeratus, Cliois. inDC.Prodr.i's.. 401; leaves subsessile oblong 

 sparsely hairy, heads peduncled bracteate, sepals lanceolate hirsute, corolla \ 

 in. tubular mouth narrow funnel-shaped. Wight Ic. t. 1366 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 102. 



The Punjab, Vicary ; Scinde, Stocks, &c. — Disteib. Cabul, Beloochistan to W. 

 Tropical Africa. 



Bootstock biennial or perennial ; stems 2-3 ft., diffuse, branched, sparsely hairy. 

 Leaves J-^ in. Peduncles j-S in. ; bracts |-1 in., leaflike ; or the heads sessile on 

 short axillary branches. Sepals J in., lanceolate, acute. Seeds puberulous. — Closely 

 allied to C. rhyniospermus, but the flowers more numerous (often 6-1 0) in the head, 

 the habit much more diBuse, ruuning into the following variety. 



Vab. vohibilis ; stems distinctly twining, leaves and heads larger, petiole 5 in. — 

 Punjab ; Vicary. Scinde ; Dalsell. 



7. C. Rottlerianus, Chois. Convolv. Or. 95, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 403 ; silky-villous. leaves sessile linear, pedundea 1-3-fld., sepals ovate suddenly 

 acuminate siliy-viUous, corolla scarcely ^ in. subcampanulate. Wight in 

 Madras Joum. v. 7, t. 13 ; Dalz. ^ Qihs. Bomh. Fl. 164. Eetzia pilosa, Heyne ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6669 {not Evolvulus pilosus, Roxh.) 



W. Deccan Peninsuul., from Bombay to Madura ; Bottler, &c. — Distbib. Aff'- 

 ghanistan. 



An erect, branched perennial. Leaves 1-2 in. Pedimcles many, 1^ in. ; bracts ^ 

 in., linear-lanceolate ; pedicel (above the bracts) 0-| in. Sepals J in. Capsule | in. 

 ovoid, glabrous. Seeds puberulous. 



Vae. tendla. Stocks in Hook. Kew Joum. iv. 172; sparingly silky not villous, 

 stems strict more slender. — Scinde ; Stocks. 



** Stems twining {see also C. glomeratus) ; stigmas narrowly oblong or 

 linear, shorter than the style. 



8. C. arvensis, Linn. ; Engl. Bot. t, 312 ; glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent, leaves ovate-cordate, auriculate or hastate, peduncles 1-3-fld., bracts 

 small, sepals elliptic obtuse glabrous or nearly so, corolla middle-sized purplish. 

 Soxb. Sort. Beng.14:; Chois. Convolv. Or. 97, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 406; 

 Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 163 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 108. 0. Malcolmii, Boxb. 

 Sort. Beng. 14, and Fl. Ind. i. 474, and ed. Carey <§• Wall. ii. 55. 0. divari- 

 catus. Wall. Cat. 1422. 0. chinensis, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 322. 



Western India, from Kashmir to the Decean ; a weed of cultivation. — ^Distbib. 

 Nearly all temperate and subtropical regions. 



Leaves 1-3 in., lower often lobed ; petiole J-f in. Pedimcles 1-2 in. ; bracts ^in., 

 linear ; pedicels ^-1 in. Sepals \ in., with or without a muero. Corolla wide-funnel- 

 shaped, glabrous. Capsule J-j in., glabrous. 



9. C. flavus, WUld. Sp. PI. i. 852 ; innovations rusty-pubescent, leaves 

 hastately ovate-oblong angular toothed or lobed, peduncles 1-3-fld., bracts 

 small, sepals elliptic-lanceolate pubescent, corolla small yellowish. Chois. in 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 415. 0. rufescens, Chois. Convolv. Or. 97, and in DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 408 ; Wight Ic. t. 1365. Evolvulus hederaceus, Burm,. Fl. Ind. 77, t. 30, 

 fig. 2.—Rheede Hwt. Mai. viii. t. 27. 



Hills of S. Decoan Peninsula, alt. 3-6000 ft., frequent ; Wight, &c. 

 Leaves 1-3 in., in age nearly glabrous ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles 1 in., notrarely 

 paired in the same axil, pubescent ; bracts scarcely j in. Sepals J-^ in. ; wider in 



