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CONVOLVULUS suffruticosus. 
Shrubby Madeira Bindweed. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ConvoLvuLs. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. 
. CowvorLvuLacEx. Brown prod. 481. Sect. I. Ger- 
men unicum. 
. CONVOLVULUS. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus, v. bracteis 2 mino- 
ribus imbricatus, persistens. Cor. 1-petala, hypogyna, regularis, cam- 
pauulata, 5-plicata, limbo 5-lobo, decidua. Stam. imæ corolle jose 
ejusdem laciuiis alterna, limbo breviora, Germ. 2-loc. (raró 3-loc. ?), 
loculis dispermis; basi cinctum glandulá anuulari. Stylus indivisus. 
Stig. 2, filiformis. Caps. valvata, valvis margine appositis angulis dissepi- 
menti liberi basi seminiferi. Herba (rarà frutices) volubiles v. prostrate, 
sapiiis lactescentes. Folia alterna, exstipulata. Brown prod. 481, 482. 
Div. Caule volubili, 
C. suffruticosus, foliis oblongis subcordatis acutis, caule suffruticoso 
levi, pedunculis trifloris multiflorisque. Dryander in Hort. Kem. ed. 
2, 1. 331. 
Oss. Omnino diversus â Convolvulo suffruticoso Desf. Jl. atl. et Per- 
soon syn. qui species non volubilis. . 
Caulis feres, viridi-fuscescens, ramosus, conspersus lanugine rará aique 
. viz manifestá, Folia saturatà viridia, oblongo-cordata, acuminata, utrinque 
[suprà appress2] subvillosa, infra varicoso-nervosa, longiora triuncialia : peti- 
olus 3-plo brevior, villosus. "Pedunculi axillares, villosuli, superantes petio- 
lum, breviores folio, sepiìs trichotomo-triflori, sub trichotomid bibracteati, 
‘nunc divisi ultra atque multiflori. Cal. triplo brevior corollá, herbaceus, venosus z 
Soliola supernà patentia lata cum brevi acumine et ciliata. Cor. tota quanta 
usque ad calycem rotato-dispansa, uncias feré binas transversa, alba, flavescens 
in disco, ad plicas lineis 5 purpureis ahis totidem externis villos 4 nceolatis 
respondentibus radiata, obsoletó 5-gona, 5-quiès emarginata : junior involuta 
tota extús serigeo-hirsuta. Stam. duplo ultrave brevioria corolla, Sasciculata, 
inferno barbata: anth. sagittato-lineares, ochroleuce. Germ. pyramidatum, 
albicans, glabrum : stylus Óisulco-filiformis (quasi ex duobus conforrurainatus), 
apice breve bicruris : stig. 2 filiformia, albida, cruribus styli pedicellata. 
A species introduced from the island of Madeira by Mr. 
Masson in 1788; but does not appear in the first Hortus 
Kewensis, and is only recorded in the late edition of that 
work. It affords a very decisive sample of the difference 
of the stigma of its genus and that of ÍPOM&A, now the 
main point of distinction between the two, as has alread 
been noticed in the sixty-second article of this work. It 
is also an instance, among numerous others, by which we 
see the herbaceous genera of the colder climates assuming 
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