CONVOLVULI'S. 
Oi 
Ov. 2-celled 4-ovulate, densely silky-pilose with long erect w. 
hairs ; style nearly or quite smooth : stigmas long filiform di- 
varicate w. Nectary even at the edge, y. with an or. ring at 
the base. Caps, depresso-globose 1- or 2-celled, each cell 1- or 2- 
seeded. 
§ 2. St. more or less twining — Strophocaulos Don. 
(o) Herbaceous ; root and st. ann. 
2. C. sicuLus L. 
Root ann. ; st. prostrate or procumbent rarely slightly or 
loosely twining pale adpressedlv pubescent like the petioles 
and ped. ; 1. nearly or quite smooth oblong-ovate acute trun- 
cate or subcordate at the base, very shortly stalked; ped. 1- 
(rarely 2-) fid., 2-4-bracteate at top, slender, not longer than 
the 1., hooked or recurved in fr. ; hr. leafy conspicuous linear- 
lanceolate or ligulate acute, close below and as long as the fi. ; 
pedic. very short ; fl. nearly sessile small inconspicuous ; sep. 
broadly oval or elliptic, the upper half herbaceous gT. ovate 
subacuminate conspicuously ciliate, the lower membranous pale 
or whitish ; cor. small inconspicuous pale b. subtubular, style 
short ; caps, smooth cernuous. — Linn. Sp. 223 ; Lam. Diet. iii. 
540 ; Desf. i. 174; Pers. i. 180; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 335; Fl. 
Gr. t. 196; Buch 193. no. 204; Dot. Reg. t. 445; Spr. i. 608 ; 
DC. ix. 407 ; WB. iii. 23 ; Gren. et Godr. iii. 503 ; Willk. et 
Lange ii. 518 ; Moris. Hist. ii. 36 (excl. icon. App. § 1. t. 7. 
f. 4) ; Bocc. Sic. 89. t. 48. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2 (chiefly 
1 ), | or c. Waste grassy places !by roadsides or amongst fields 
and vinevards. Sea-cliffs &c. to the E. of Funchal along: the 
CaniQo road, S. Gon^allo, Machico above the E. Fort, S. Ant° 
W. of Funchal Sec. March-May. — St. several from the crown 
of the small vertical root spreading all round 6 in.-2 ft. long 
slender simple elongate trailing and only occasionally when 
luxuriant twisting or climbing. Foliage bright or full gr. L. 
1^-lf in. long, |-f in. broad, smooth. Petioles 2-4 lines long, 
adpresso-pubescent like the st. Ped. filiform f-lf in. long ad- 
presso-pubescent bearing at top little leafy heads of 1-2 small 
nearly sessile fls. subtended by 2-4 smooth leafy br. 1-f in. 
long and 1-2 lines broad, almost overtopping them ; pedic. very 
short, scarcely any. Cal. rather large ; sep. smooth 3 lines 
long, 1^-2 broad in the middle, their lower half pale subsca- 
rious, upper subcordately ovate fine-pointed gr. ciliate with y. 
bristly hairs. Cor. 3 lines long scarcely overtopping the sep. 
but sometimes almost twice as long as cal., small but pretty, 
delicate pale b. with 5 silky-pubescent stripes outside, the 
throat inside w. Style 1^ mill, or f line long. 
The conspicuous leafy br. close below the fl. owing to the 
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