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CALYSTEGIA pubescens. 
Downy Bindweed. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACEA. (BINDWEEDSs, Vegetable Kingdom, p.630.) 
CALYSTEGIA, R. Br.—Bractee dus opposite florem involventes. 
Sepala 5 sequalia. Corolla campanulata. Stylus 1. Stigma bilobum, lobis 
lineari aut oblongo-cylindricis etiam complanatis. Ovarium biloculare, apice 
ob dissepimentum abbreviatum 1-loculare. Herba volubiles, aut repentes ; 
wd Jacile noscendum, at non charactere strenuo insignitum.— DC. Prodr. 
ix. 433. 
*C. pubescens; caule volubili pubescente, foliis oblongis acutis hastatis 
pubescentibus lobis baseos angulatis, pedunculis angulosis unifloris, 
bracteis ovatis ciliatis margine reflexis. — Lindley in Journal of Hort. 
Soc. 1. 70. 
We are able to add nothing to the account of this plant 
given in the Journal of the Horticultural Society. 
We are there informed that it was “raised from a small 
portion of the root found in a dead Peony root, in box No. 
22, from Mr. Fortune's mission in China. The box was sent 
from Shanghai, and stated to contain a plant of the double 
Convolvulus, which was supposed to be dead when received 
at the garden in June, 1844." 
This curious plant approaches very nearly to the C. 
sepium, or larger bindweed of our English hedges, from which 
it differs in having firmer and smaller leaves, much narrower 
bracts, and a fine pubescence spread over every part. It is 
the first plant of its order that has been mentioned as pro- 
ducing double flowers. They are about as large as those of a 
double Anemone, but the petals are arranged with the irre- 
gularity of the Rose; they are of a pale very delicate pink, 
and remain expanded for some days. The calyx is quite 
unchanged. The exterior petals are very much lacerated 
and irregular in form; those next the centre are narrow, 
drawn together into a kind of cone; the next central are 
completely concealed by those without them, and diminish till 
