plant of Ksempfer, quoted by Thunberg as a synonym to 

 his japonicus. But this of itself proves little ; as we find 

 Ksempfei's plants not unfrequently quoted rather too 

 loosely in the synonymy of the above respectable and 

 meritorious autlior. 



Very lately introduced by Messrs. Whitley and Co. into 

 their nursery at Fulham; where it was raised from seed 

 received by the way of Berlin, from the botanic garden at 

 Moscow, and is probably native of some of the parts of the 

 Russian dominions which border upon the Chinese territory. 

 It comes extremely close to our common Field-Bindweed (C. 

 arvensis), but differs in the thicker substance, hastate form 

 of the foliage, and larger deeper-coloured corolla. Quite 

 hardy, and seems to have taken fast hold of the borders 

 in the Fulham nursery by its vivacious creeping root. 

 We do not believe it is in any other collection. The flower 

 opens either in the night or betimes in the morning, and 

 fades early in the forenoon. 



Perennial, 2-3 feet Iiigh. Root creeping. Leaves firm, 

 subcoriaceous, greyish green, hastate, middle lobe elong- 

 atedly oblong, somewhat tapered, blunt, with a small point, 

 an inch or more long, side ones or auricles divaricate, short, 

 quite entire: petiole linear, channelled, 3 times shorter than 

 the blade. Flowers at the upper part of the stem, axillary, 

 solitary, pointing one way : peduncles spreading, sometimes 

 about two inches long : hractes 2, small opposite, linearly 

 subulate, at a distance from the flower. Cali/x greenish, 

 cartilagineo-membranous, many times shorter than the co- 

 rolla, nearly equal, scarcely ^ of an inch deep, imbricately 

 connivent; leaflets obcordately oblong, elliptical, rctuse, 

 sniooth. Corolla rotately funnelform; /im& large, purphsh 

 crimson, marked in the disk with an unequally pointed pale 

 yellow star surrounded by a purple radiant halo: tube the 

 length of the calyx; ^awx short. Stamens protruding be- 

 yond the faux: Jilaments subulate, attached to the inner 

 edge of the base of the tube, channelled inwards below, 

 glandnlarly villous, 4 times longer than the anthers or more: 

 anthers oblong, sagittate, narrow, blackish red at the sides. 

 Germen small, conical, smooth, seated upon a thick roundish 

 depressed far wider orange-coloured disk. 



