Tas. 4940. 
ARGYREIA urrsvta. 
Villous. Argyreia. 
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Nat. Ord. ConvotvuLackr#.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynta. 
_Gen. Char. Sepala 5. Corolla campanulata, Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum, 
bilobum. Ovarium biloculare (?), 4-spermum. Fructus baccatus, sepalis seepe 
intus rubescentibus et induratis cinctus.—Herbe aut suffrutices Indice aut Chi- 
nenses (except A.? Abyssinica), vegetationis aspectu spectabiles, plerumque argentee, 
sericee aut tomentose. Choisy. ; ; 
ARGYREIA (§ Samudra) Airsuta; caule petiolis pedunculis petiolis calycibus co- 
rolla tubo pilis patulis strigoso-hirsutis, foliis cordatis mucronatis longe 
petiolatis subtus villoso-tomentosis, pedunculis folio longioribus uni-pluri- 
floris, floribus subcymosis laxis, bracteis linearibus s. lanceolatis, sepalis 
ovatis, corollis magnis speciosis, tubo elongato inferne subinflato, limbo 
amplissimo. 
Arayrera hirsuta. Wight et Arn. Pug. Pl. Ind. Or. p. 38. Choisy, in De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 8. p. 331. 
Rrvea hirsuta. Wight, Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 891. 
ARGyrEra Choisyana. Hort. 
Beautiful as are many of the tropical Bindweeds, we have 
rarely seen a more beautiful and striking one than the present, 
trained as our plant is along the rafters of a stove, with bright 
green, good-sized leaves, peculiarly villous stems, branches, pe- 
tioles, ete., and its ample bright lilac corollas. We received it 
from the Paris Garden in 1850, under the name of Argyreia 
Choisyana, a name which we cannot find in any botanical work 
Within our reach; but the plant corresponds in every essen- 
tial particular with Argyreia hirsuta of Wight and Arnott in 
their ‘ Pugillus,’ and which Dr. Wight afterwards, in his inva- 
—luable < Icones,’ figures and describes as Rivea hirsuta. His 
reasons for this change are given by the learned author in vol. iv. 
of the ‘Tcones,’ under No. 1355, and also his views of reducing 
a number of the genera of M. Choisy into one ; in other words, 
making Rivea, Argyreia, and Lettsomia to comprise all of the 
first section of Convolvulacee, all having indehiscent fruit ; viz. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1856. 
