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CONVOLVULUS elongatus. 
Broussonet’s trailing Bindweed. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. ConvoLvuLi. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. 
CoNvoLvULACEE. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. I. 
CONVOLVULUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 133. 
Div. Caule prostrato s. non volubili. 
C. elongatus, foliis cordato-ovatis cuspidatis, pedunculis bifloris folio longio- 
ribus, bracteis lineari-subulatis pedunculo partiali brevioribus, calycibus 
subciliatis. Willd. enum. 1. 205. . 
Convolvulus pseudo-siculus. Broussonet MSS. (fide Willdenovii in loc. cit.) 
Annuus. Caules teretes elongati prostrati, nunc superne subvolubiles, to- 
mentoso-villosi, virides. Fol. alterna, distantia, cordata, acuminata, tenuia, 
letè virentia, sesquiuncialia latitudine unciali v. eirciter, suprà atomis albis 
crebris conspersa, subtis villosiuscula: petiolus teres multotiès brevior laminá. 
Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, filiformes, tomentoso-villosi, longiores folio, 
t-2-flori: pedicelli calyci subequilongi, crassiores, singuli bracteis binis 
lanceolato-linearibus herbaceis erectis oppositis ad basin. Flores pro genere 
parvi, albi: cal. infundibuliformis viridis ; foliola equilonga, obovato-oblonga, 
acuminata, superné ciliata, 2 interiora angustiora. Cor. subrotata, profan. 
diùs quinqueloba, lobis rotundatis, subtùs villosiusculis. Stamina plurimùm 
breviora corollá: fil. basi latiora, imo corolle disco subtubuloso-contracto 
atque lutescente adnata, glabra. Stylus albus, erectus, 2-3plo brevior 
stigmatibus binis filiformibus, robustis, erectis, albidis. Germ. pallidum, 
subrotundum. Caps. globosa, Piso mediocri minor, glabra; semina 3, 
Subrotunda, scabra. 
Supposed to be native of the Canary Islands. Ori- 
ginally observed by M. Broussonet. First published by 
Willdenow under the present name in his * Enumeratio." 
Introduced by Messrs. Colville, at whose nursery in the 
King's Road, Chelsea, the present drawing was taken in 
July last. 
A hardy annual. Stems round, long, trailing, some- 
times twining at the upper part, tomentosely villous, green. 
Leaves alternate, wide asunder, cordate, taper-pointed, thin, 
lively green, about an inch and half in length and an 
inch across or thereabouts, beset with white atomous dots 
and bare on the upper side, slightly furred on the under: 
petiole vound, many times shorter than the leaf. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, filiform, tomentosely villous, longer than 
the leaf, 1-2-flowered: pedicles about the length of the 
