224 CI. CONVOLVULACEJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Breweria. 



A powerful twiner ; branches villous. Leaves 4 by 2J in., those on the flowering 

 hranchlets ovate-cordate; petiole Ij in. Fedtmcles about as long as the petioles, 

 2-5-fld. ; bracts f in., oblong ; cymes subcapitate, rusty-villous. Sepals ^4 in., 

 ovate-oblong, subacute, subequal. Corolla IJ in., wide-funnel-shaped, hairy without ; 

 limb subentire. Style | in., united for | in. Capsule J in., subglobose, glabrous, 

 splitting into numerous vertical segments ; sepals in fruit somewhat enlarged, ovate, 

 hardly so long as the capsule. Seeds about as broad as long, nearly glabrous. 



2. B. eleg'ans, Chois. Convolv. Or. 112, and in UC Prodr. iz. 439; 

 fulvous-viUous, leaves elliptic those of the flowering branches oblong or sub- 

 linear none cordate. Convolvulus elegans, Wall. Cat. 1392. 



British Bitema ; Prome, Wallich. 



Very near B. cordata, differing chiefly in the leaves. Xeaws of the flowering 

 shoots (for 18 in. near their tops) 1| by J in., narrow-oblong, mucronate ; lower 

 leaves 3 by 1| in., obtuse, almost rounded at both ends. Pedicels ^-J in., rather 

 • longer than in B. Eoxhurghii. Corolla as of B. Boxhurghii but the tube appears 

 more cylindric, less funnel-shaped. Capsule not seen. — ^Material rather scanty for the 

 support of so critical a species. 



** Small, erect; leaves small ; flowers small, axiUary , 1-Z together white or 

 pinldsh ; styles distinct very nearly to the base. 



3. B. evolvuloides, Chms, Convolv. Or. 112, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 439 ; leaves \-^ in. oblong or elliptic nearly glabrous, pedicels ^^ in., capsule 

 i-J in. Seddera evolvuloides, Wight Ic. t. 1369. Evolvulus alsinoides, Wall. 

 Cat. 1317, hy admixture. 



Deccan Peninsitla ; Heyne ; near Tuticorin, Wight. 



A very branched, rigid, harsh, small shrub ; with a few scattered strigose hairs. 

 Sepais ^ in., oblong, nearly glabrous, saberect both in flower and fruit. Corolla ^ in. 

 Capside subglobose, shortly pointed, glabrous tipped with a tuft of hairs 4-valved. 

 Seeds glabrous. 



4. B. latifolia, Bemth. in Gen. PI. ii. 877 ; leaves |-J in. elliptic densely 

 silky, flowers sessile, capsule | in. Seddera latifolia, Hochst. ^ Stead, in Flora, 

 1844, Beibl. 8, t. 6, fig. B.C. ; Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 114. Oressa latifolia, T. And. in Joum. lAnn. Soo. v. Suppl. 26, excluding 

 the Deccan synonyms. 



Punjab and Scinde ; Vicary, Stoclcs, &e. — Distrib. W. Tropicall Asia, E. Tropical 

 Africa. 



Dr. T. Anderson thought this plant not specifically separated from the Deccan 

 B. evolvuloides by its hairiness and sessile flowers ; but the capsule is twice as large, 

 ovoid, and the seeds ovoid-oblong, twice as long as broad. Segals acuminate, densely 

 silky. 



13. ZTBVB,OFBX.TXS, Wcdl. 



A large scandent shrub ; shoots rufous-villous or tomentose. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, coriaceous, ovate or oblong. Racemes axUlary, or subpanicled towards 

 the ends of the branches ; flowers numerous, small, pedicelled ; bract under the 

 calyx inconspicuous in flower, in fruit enlarged 1 in. or more diam. Sepals 

 Buborbicular, in fruit hardly enlarged. Corolla wide-campanulate, deeply lobed, 

 lobes induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens exserted or included, filaments 

 filiform. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 4^ovuled ; styles 2, separate from the 

 base, shortly linear, stigmas subcapitate or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule globose, 

 4-valved, 1-seeded, sessile in the middle of the flat bract, Seed globose, 

 glabrous, albuminous ; cotyledons plaited. — Species 2, the following and an 

 African. 



