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LXXXV. CONVOLVULACEjE. 
[Convolvulus. 
undershrubs or low shrubs. Leaves entire or rarely toothed, lobed or deeply 
divided. Flowers axillary, solitary or in corymbose or umbel-like cymes. Seeds 
glabrous, at least in the Australian species. 
A large genus, distributed over the whole area of the Order, less numerous within the tropics 
than Ipomcea, but extending far into the temperate and cooler regions both of the northern and 
the southern hemispheres. 
Convolvulus has no character to distinguish it from Ipomcta besides the more or less elongated 
stigmatic lobes of the style, the habit is usually but not always different. — Benth. 
Flowers solitary or rarely 2 together. Sepals obtuse. Leaves either very 
narrow or toothed or lobed 1. C. erubescem. 
Flowers in cymes. Sepals acuminate. Leaves cordate, entire. 
Softly tomentose. Pedicels short : ... 2. C. multivalvis. 
Glabrous or pubescent. Pedicels rather long 3. C.parviflorus. 
1. C. erubescens (flowers reddish), Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1067 ; Benth. FI. 
A ustr. iv. 429. A perennial, either glabrous, pubescent or densely tomentose, 
rarely villous, with a creeping rootstock and slender prostrate trailing or rarely 
twining stems. Foliage exceedingly variable, the leaves usually more or less 
sagittate-cordate, the lower ones ovate-lanceolate, the upper ones passing into 
narrow-lanceolate or linear, with diverging entire or lobed basal auricles and 
from f to liin. long, but sometimes nearly all small, cordate-ovate obtuse and 
slightly crenate, sometimes nearly all narrow-linear with either very minute or 
long and linear basal auricles or lobes. Peduncles often as long as the leaves, 
1 -flowered, with minute bracts at a distance from the calyx. Sepals 2 to nearly 
3 lines long, ovate, obtuse or almost acute. Corolla pink or white, usually from 
b to fin. long. Ovary and fruit completely 2-celled. Stigmatic lobes linear. — 
R. Br. Prod. 482; Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 412; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 275 ; 
C. remotus, R. Br. Prod. 483 ; Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 412 (a small-leaved form) ; 
C. angustissimus, R. Br. Prod. 482 (very narrow-leaved specimens) ; C. adscendem 
De Vr. in PI. Preiss. i. 346 ; C. subpinnatifidus, De Vr. l.c. 347. 
Hab.: Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, and Nerkool Creek, Bounnan (both luxuriant specimens, 
with large leaves and sometimes 2 flowers on the peduncles); Rockhampton, O'Shanesy ; 
Curriwillinghi, Barton (both the common form). The plant is common in many localities. 
2. C. multivalvis (capsule many-valved), II. Br. Prod. 483 ; Benth. FI- 
A ustr.. iv. 429. A twiner 1 , closely allied to C. parvidonts, and considered by 
most authors as a variety, with the same cordate entire leaves and cymose 
inflorescence, but densely clothed with a soft close tomentum or velvety 
pubescence, the peduncles shorter and the capsule longer and much more 
distinctly splitting into about 8 valves. 
Hab.: Keppel Bay, B. Brown ; Howick’s group, F. v. Mueller; Ni-rkool Creek and Suttor 
River, Bowman. 
Also on the S. coast of New Guinea. 
3. C. parviflorus (flowers small), Vahl.; Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 413; 
Benth. FI. A ustr. iv. 430. A tall twiner, glabrous or slightly pubescent. 
Leaves on rather long petioles, cordate-ovate, acuminate, entire, membranous, 
2 to Sin. long. Peduncles about as long as the leaves, bearing a dense cyme 
of numerous small flowers. Bracts minute. Sepals ovate, acuminate, pubescent, 
2 to 2^ lines long. Corolla white or pink, very open, above 4in. diameter. 
Stamens rather long. Stigmatic lobes linear-oblong, recurved, much shorter 
than in C. erubescens. Capsule small, completely 2-celled, opening in 4 valves, 
which are sometimes split but much less so than in C. multivalvis . — C. 
multivalvis, var., R. Br. Prod. 483. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown, Hennc ; Rockingham Bay, DaWichy ; 
Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy, and others. 
The 6pecies i< widely dispersed over E. India and the eastern Archipelago. 
