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Flowers solitary, in few-flowered cymes or in dense involucrate heads. 
Sepals generally sub equal, obtuse or acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
colour various, midpetal ine areas not well defined, passing gradually 
into the sepaline areas. Stamens inserted low down in the corolla-tube ; 
filaments generally unequal, filiform. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; style 
filiform ; stigmas two, filiform. 
Capsule 2-celled, usually 4-valved, 4-seeded. Seeds black or brown, 
glabrous, or pubescent, sometimes tuberculate ; cotyledons broad, plicate. 
Sjpecies about 160. 
Distribution: — In the temperate and subtropical regions of both 
hemispheres ; rarer in the tropics. 
Calyx up to 5 lines long . . . . . . 1. C. glomeratus. 
Calyx- 1 line long or slightly longer . , . . 2. C. sericopliyllus. 
1. Convolvulus glomeratus (Hochst.) Chois, in DC. Prodr. IX, 401 y 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 24 ; Clarke in Hook. FI. Brit. 
Ind. IV, 219. 
Convolvulus arabicus Hochst. in Schimp. exsicc. II (1843), n. 784. 
Ipomcea auricoma A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. II, 67. 
“ Convolvulus capitatus Y ahl ” in Schimp. PI. n. 731 et 784, non 
C. capitatus Yahl (ex Anders.) . 
Arabic name : ■ — Lu. 
Description : — Perennial . Stems many from the hard woody base, 
long, slender, terete, trailing or twining, finely hairy, often scabridulous. 
Leaves lanceolate to oblon g-lanceolate, J — 1 inch long, base slightly 
cordate, flattened or obscurely cuneate, apex obtuse to acute, mucro- 
nulate ; sparsely adpressed pilose on both surfaces ; petiole very short. 
Flowers in dense globose bracteate ferruginously hairy heads, on 
slender peduncles which are generally shorter than the leaves ; outer 
bracts large, foliaceous, up to 8 lines long, inner smaller, lanceolate, 
acute, a little longer than the calyx. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, up to 5 
lines long, the two outer much larger than the inner, densely clothed 
with bright brown hairs. Corolla pinkish -white, hairy, 6 lines long. 
Capsule globose, glabrous, 2J lines in diameter, pale-brown. Seeds 
blackish-brown, scabrid. 
Flowers : — February 1851 (Thomson), March 1878 (Perry), April 
1894' (Lunt), Nov. 1888 (Schweinf.), Dec. 1847 (Hooker), Dec. 188$ 
(Dell.). 
Fruits : — J anuary 1880 (Balfour), March 1878 (Perry) . 
Locality : — Yalley near Maala, Goldmore Yalley (Schweinf.) ; 
Steamer Point, 200 feet (Lunt) ; plain of Maala (Defl.) ; Shum Shum 
Range (Ellenbeck) ; great valley between Steamer Point and town 
