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CONVOLVULUS scoparius. 
Canary Rosewood. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
_ Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACE. 
CONVOLVULUS. Botanical Register, vol. 2. fol. 133. 
C. scoparius; erectus, fruticosus, ramosus, sericeus, foliis linearibus, cymis 
axillaribus multifloris erectis racemosis, corolle plicatze limbo 5-partito, 
staminibus limbo brevioribus, ovario villoso biloculari conico-acuminato, 
ovulis geminis, stylo nullo, stigmatibus linearibus. 
Convolvulus scoparius. Hortus Kewensis, 1.213. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 872. 
Ventenat choiv des plantes, t. 24. Rémer § Schultes syst. veg. 4. 299. 
Breweria? scoparia. Lindl. Flora Medica, p. 400. no. 821. 
For an opportunity of figuring this curious little plant I 
have to thank Mr.Young, Nurseryman, Milford, near Godal- 
ming, who received it from Mr. Barker Webb. Whether or 
not it is mentioned in that gentleman’s work on the Canaries 
Iam unable, from the irregular and confused way in which 
the book is published, to ascertain. It appears on other testi- 
mony to occur near Santa Cruz, and elsewhere in the Canary 
islands. 
Nothing can well be less like a Convolvulus than this, and 
I presume it will be removed from the genus when M. De 
Candolle revises the Convolvulaceous order. In the meantime 
I leave it there, partly from not wishing to interfere with the 
nomenclature about to be promulgated by M. DeCandolle, 
partly from not knowing what the fruit is, and in part from 
not being able to make up my mind in what of the modern 
genera it can be surely stationed. At one time I had placed 
it in Breweria, with a mark of doubt; and it may possibly 
belong there: but the narrow lobes of its style are not capl- 
tate, and are rather to be considered as stigmata sessile on 
the apex of a long-pointed ovary. Then there is a genus 
Seddera, proposed by Steudel and Hochstetter for an Arabian 
