FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Ipomoea carcliosepala Hochst. ex Choisy, in DC. Prodr. IX, 429, 393 ; 
Vatke in Linnsea XLIII, 508. 
Convolvulus calycinus Boxb. Hort. Beog. 13, et FI. Ind. I, 471, ed. 
Carey et Wall. II, 51 ; Wall. Cat. 2255. 
Convolvulus Hardwickii Spreng. Syst. curse post. 60. 
Aniseia calycina Chois. Convolv. Or. 100, et DC. Prodr. IX, 429 ; 
Wight III. 1. 168 b, fig. 5, et. Ic. t. 833 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bombay FI. 
163. 
Description : — Stem twining, sparingly clothed with long spreading 
hairs. Leaves 2 — 3 by 1J— 2 inches, ovate, acutely acuminate, entire, 
sparsely hairy or nearly glabrous, cordate at the base with a wide sinus ; 
petioles J — 1| inches long, slender, clothed with long spreading hairs. 
Flowers 1 — 3 ; peduncles hairy ; pedicels hairy, about as long as the 
peduncles ; bracts \ inch long, ovate, acute. Sepals in flower J inch long, 
unequal, ciliate, the outer in fruit J by J inch, lanceolate-sagittate with 
obtuse auricles, the inner linear-lanceolate. Corolla white, tubular, 
scarcely 1 inch long. 
Capsules J J inch long, ovoid, pointed, glabrous. Seeds ^ inch long 
villous all over, fringed on the margin with soft white hairs which are 
nearly \ inch long. 
Mowers and fruits .-—-March 1875 (Hildebrandt) . 
Locality I — Aden [fide Yatke, Linnsea vol. 43, p. 509). 
Distribution : — Abyssinia, Aden, India (N. W. Provinces, Oude, W. 
Peninsula) . 
XXXIII.— SOLAMCEdE. 
Erect, trailing or scandent herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, oiten 
in unequal pairs, rarely clustered, never truly opposite, entire, lobed or 
pinnate ; stipules 0. 
Flowers regular in lateral, terminal, axillary or extra-axillary 
cymes, or on solitary or clustered pedicels ; bracts and bracteoles 0. 
Calyx inferior ; limb usually 5-lobed or -toothed, often accrescent in 
fruit. Corolla infundibuliform, campanulate or rotate, often plicate; 
lobes usually 5. Stamens 5, epipetalous ; anthers ovate or oblong, dihis- 
cing by apical pores or longitudinally. Ovary 2-eelled or imperfectly 
1- or 4-celled ; ovules many, on prominent peltate placentas ; style 
linear ; stigma usually capitate. 
Fruit a berry or a circumscissile or valved capsule, usually 2-celled, 
many-seeded. Seeds compressed, discoid, or subreniform, with peripheric 
embryo, or seeds scarcely compressed with straight embryo. 
Genera about 70 ; species about 1,250. 
