154 ‘The Natural Hifory of Jamaica. 
X. Convolunlus Polyanthos, folio fubrotundo, flore luteo. Cat. p. 55. 
This Convolvulus hasa round, woody, green Stalk, by which it climbs, 
or winds its felf round any Tree it comes near for many Feet high, putting 
forth Leaves at four Inches diftance. They are cordated, more than two 
Inches long, and as broad at the round Bafe, where broadeft, having fome 
Nerves going from the end of the Foot-Stalk, through the Leaf, and 
fome few tranfverfe ones, {mooth, of a dark green colour, and exa@] 
in every thing like the precedent, {tanding on three Inches long Foot-Stalks. 
The Flowers are many, ftand on four Inch long Stalks, they being at their 
end, as at a common Center, divided into feveral three quarters of aninch 
long Petioli, fuftaining feveral large monopetalous, Bell fafhion’d, yellow 
Flowers, having fome Fafcie within them, and a few flight Incifures on 
the edges with a Stylus, and fome Stamina. After each of thefe follows a per- 
fe@tly Spherical, brown Capfula, with five capfular dry Leaves, and within 
it three Velvet, or fattin’d, brown, triangular ‘Seeds like the other Con- 
volvuli. 
It grew in a Wood, going towards the Ferry, near the Crawle Plan- 
tation. 
I gathered a variety of thisin Barbados, having hairy Calices. 
I fee no reafon given by Dr. Plukenet in his Mantiffa. p. 54. why I Should 
think thofe Syzonima, { have taken in my Catalogue to belong to this Plant, 
not to belong to it. 
XI. Convolvulus major, folio {ubrotundo, flore amplo, purpureo. Cat. ip. 55. Tab. 
98. Fig. 1. 
he oan| green Sarments, or Stalks of this Plant mount about any 
Shrub, Tree, or Hedge, to a great-heighth, cloathing them green with their 
many Branches and Leaves, which are two Inches and an half long from the 
Foot-Stalks end, to that of the Leaf oppofite to it, and two Inches broad ac 
the round Bafe, from one Ear to the other, the Leaves being fafhion’d like 
a Heart, {mooth, of a yellowifh green colour, and ftanding on an Inch and 
a quarter long Foot-Stalks. The Flowers are of a pale purple colour, very 
large, monopetalous, and Bell fafhion’d, after each of which fucceeds abrown 
Capfu'a, having above five dry capfular Leaves, four round Protuberances, 
and in each of them a large triangular, f{mooth, folid, whitifh brown Seed. 
It grows every where on the Hedges and Ditches of the moifter grounds. 
The Decodtion ‘purges grofs ,and cold humours with Worms. it is to 
be taken in the morning, and made of the green Herb, otberwife it is 
not ufeful. Hernand. : : 
XII. Convolvulus folio lanato, in tres lacinias divifo, fore oblonze, purpurco. 
Cat. p.§5. Tab. 98. Fig. 2r. 
This by its round, whitifh, woolly Stem, turns its felfround the Truncs of 
Trees, rifing twenty Foot high, at every Inches diftance, putting forth Leaves, 
ftanding on three quarters of an Inch long Foot-Stalks. They are fomething 
like the Elder Leaves of Ivy, being divided intothree Lacinie, an Inchand 
an half long from the Center of the Foot-Stalk, to the point oppofite to jit, 
and as much or more from one Section at Bafe, to the other ; they are of a 
very white green colour, foft, and covered over with fhorr Wooll. “Dhe 
Flowers come out -ex alis foliorum, ftanding on a quarter of an Inch Ion 
Foot-Stalks in a pentaphyllous, green Capfu/a, are monopetalous, an I 
and an half long in the Zubulus of the Flower, which opens it felf Bell fa- - 
fhion, of a fine purple colour, with fome yellow Stamina in the middle, and 
five paler Streaks or Fafcie. After thefe follows a brown membranaceous 
| Capfuta, 
