( 4065 ) 



Convolvulus ocellatus. Purple-eyed 

 Bind-weed. 



Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Convolvulace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 5-partitus, nudus, v. bracteis 2 minoribus imbrica- 

 tus. Corolla campanulata, 5-plicata. Stamina limbo bre- 

 viora. Ovarium 2-loculare, raro 3-IocuIare ? loculis dis- 

 perrnis Stylus indivisus. Stigmata 2, filiformia. Capsula 

 valvata. — Herbas (raro Frutices,) volubiles v. prostrated, 

 scepius lactescentes. Br. 



Specific Name and Character. 



Convolvulus ocellatus; procumbens fruticosus, ramis erec- 

 tis foliisque linearibus integerrimis sericeo-albidis, pe- 

 dunculis solitariis axillaribus bibracteolatis unifloris 

 folio longioribus, sepalis 5 ovatis acuminatis exteriori- 

 bus sericeis, corolla subhypocrateriformi, capsula bilo- 

 culari tetrasperma. 



A very neat Evolvulous-like species of Bind-weed, dis- 

 covered by Mr. Burke at Macalisberg, in the interior of 

 Southern Africa, and raised from seeds in the greenhouse 

 of the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, 

 where it produced its pretty white flowers with a purple 

 eye, in the month of August. I can find no Convolvulus 

 anywhere described that corresponds with it. Indeed I 

 should have referred it to E volvulus, but for the style and 

 stigmas, which are truly those of a Convolvulus. The 

 corolla is, as it were, intermediate, between those two 

 Genera, between campanulate and salver-shaped ; scarcely 

 to be called rotate. 



Descr. 



