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CONVOLVULUS pentanthus. 
Jacquin’s East India Bindweed. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ConvorvuLi. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. L 
CONVOLYULACEX. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. d 
CONVOLVULUS. Suprà vol. a. fol. 133. 
Div. Caule volubili. 
C. pentanthus, caule volubili fruticoso, foliis oblongo-cordatis acuminatis 
subrepandis glabris, pedunculis umbellatim subquinquefloris, floribus sub- 
sessilibus, calycibus ciliatis. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. 10. tab. 316. i 
Convolvalus pentanthus. Jacg. coll. 4.210. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 855. Poiret 
suppl. Lamarck encyc. 3. 468. 
Frutex caule ramisque teretibus glabris. Folia oblongo-cordata v. sub- 
ovata, acuminata, nervosa nervo medio laterales plurimos parallelos divari- 
eato-ascendentes utrinque emittente, subtùs reticulato-venosa, ad marginem 
villosiuscula, suprà nuda, majora subtriuncialia interdüm basi subhastato- 
excisa sin brevi latissimo, juniora sink angusto: petiolus villosiuscu- 
lus uni-sesquiuncialis v. ultrà. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, 2-6-unciales, 
filiformes, graciles, elastico-rigentes, ascendentes, villosiusculi, terminati 
cymà subcapitato-contractá pluri-( sub5-) flora subtrichotomá subfoliosá, folio- 
lis 2 v. bracteis ad dichotomias. Cal. foliaceus, tenuis, venosus, usque ad 
basin partitus, foliolis erectis, inaequalibus, ovato-acuminatis, ciliatis, 2 
multà majoribus villosiusculis à plano oppositis florem nascentem intercluden- 
tibus, lateribus reflexis. Cor. cerulea, rotata, radiis 5 pallidioribus stellata, 
angulato-5-loba. Fil. equalia, basi barbuta: antherz pallide. Stylus albus, 
indivisus: stigmata 2 replicata, oblonga, cylindracea, brevia, albida, prui- 
nosa. 
It does not appear by any of the horticultural records 
that this pretty shrub has ever appeared in our gardens till 
last year; when it flowered in December in Mr. Kent's | 
richly stored and well-managed hothouse at Clapton, having 
been raised from seed from the East Indies. 
In regard to inflorescence the species has considerable 
affinity with Convorvuzus involucratus, an account and 
figure of which will be found in Volume 4. (fol. 318) of this 
publication. But it comes still nearer to ConvoLvuLus ma- 
labaricus, as far as we can judge from an unpublished 
figure and description of that species among Dr. Roxburgh's 
manuscripts in the Banksian Library; by which we find 
that it differs from pentanthus principally in having no 
