rather 



(hypocrateriform) 



funnel-shaped (infu 



buliform). The rough tubercled branches of our pi 



fforcl at first sight another d 



4* 



pube 



will be fou 



near the base of 



In pendula a woolly 



P 



hich we did not perceive here. 



Ipom<£a tuberculoid is a slender twining suffrutescent 

 plant, attaining the height of five or six feet ; native of 

 the East Indies, where it grows in the hedges; flowers 

 during the cold season, and is reckoned the most orna- 

 mental of its genus. Stem round, with a brownish bark ; 

 branches numerous, tubercled, with here and there a tu- 

 bercle assuming a spinelike appearance. Leaves smooth, 

 quinatc, 2-3 inches in diameter; leaflets oval-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, with a small point, outer ones generally shorter 

 and 2-3-cleft, commonly distinct from the rest, and sub- 



petioled : petioles shorter than the leaf, minutely tubercled. 

 Peduncles solitary, firm, trichotomously three-flowered, up- 

 right, shorter than the leaf, bibracteolate. Calyx thick, of 

 a deep green colour, two or three times shorter than the 

 cylindrically lengthened faux ; outer leaflets rather shorter, 

 cordate. Corolla about two inches deep, of a pale violet- 

 purple throughout the tubular portion, of a faint yellow at 

 the limb ; segments rounded and shallow. Seeds largish, 

 brown, few, woolly at the angles. 



Last spring a packet of seeds arrived from the East 

 Indies, sent by Sir Evan Nepean to Messrs. Whitley, 

 Milne, and lirame, nurserymen, King's Road, Parson's 

 Green ; among them were those from which the present 

 plant was raised. These were stated to have been collected 

 in the botanic garden at Calcutta. 



On the transfer of the species from Convolvulus to 

 Ipomoza, Dr. Roxburgh's name of digitatus could not be 

 retained, it being already occupied by another. 



tt The section of the lower part of the corolla. 



til. 



