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RUELLIA GOSSYPINA. Tab. 42. 



Fruticosa, erecta, paniculatim rainosa, caule, ramis, foliisque juuioribus indutis tomento densissimo, niveo ; foliis 

 ovato-cordatis, subcreuulatis, aetate glabriusculis ; floribus raccmoso-pauiculatis ; laciniis calycis bracteisqiic liiiearlbus 

 corolla dimidio brevioribus. 



Habitat in Napalia inferiore juxta ripam fliiminis Papti. Etiam observavi in monte Cliarculi in valle Deyra. 

 Floret fine pluviariim. 



Frutex erecta, ramosa, 2-pedalis. Caulis lignosus, obsolete quadrangularis, basi digitura minimum crassus, ramique numerosi, 

 subdecussatim patentes omnin5 velati tomento candicante, moUissimo, admod^m denso, aetate deciduo, superficiem linquente griseam 

 glabriusculam. Folia subaequalia, patentia, approximata, ovato-cordata, attenuato-acuininata, minutim crenulata, 5 — 8-pollicaria, sinu 

 basis levi, nunc obsoleto, lobis brevibus, rotundatis; parallele et obliquti multinervosa, nervis costaque subtfis elevatis, reticulata; 

 novella cum petiolis niveo-toraentosa, dein villosa, a;tate fer^ glabra supraque saturate viridia; floralia parva, lanceolata. Petioli 

 teretes, folio tripl6 breviores, inaequales, demiW glabriusculi. Flore s axillares, oppositi, subsessiles, coerulei, paniculam tenninalem 

 amplam densamquc formantes, sufFulti bracteis binis oppositis, linearibus, semiuncialibus, calycem subcequantibus cunique hoc villosis. 

 Lacini^ calycis lineares, subinaequales, leviter patulae. Coroll^v calyce dupl5 longior, tubo supra pariim gibboso, limbo patente in hhos 

 diviso 5, rotundatos, obtusos, parvos ; fauce intus villosula. Stamina inclusa. Stigma clavatum, acutum. 



It is impossible to mistake this elegant plant for any other, on account of the dense, milk-white and soft woolliness 

 with which its stem and branches, as well as the young leaves are covered, to a thickness sometimes of one third of 

 an inch. As the plant advances in age this tomentum falls off in large flakes, leaving the branches naked and of a 

 grey colour. The flowers are much smaller than those of Ruellla data, but very handsome and of a blue colour. 



Plate XLII. Fig. 1. Flower with a floralleaf and bracts. 2. Calyx opened. 3. Corolla opened. 



CONVOLVULUS atropurpureus. Tab. 43. 



VoLUBiLis, dense pilosus ; foHis ovato-cordatis, integerrimis, attenuato-acuminatis, petiolis triplo longioribus ; 

 fascicuhs axillaribus, paucifloris, pedunculatis, involucratis bracteis maximis, foliaceis, lanceolatis ; corolla campa' 

 nulata, extus barbata. 



Convolvulus (Ipomoea) atropurpureus, Wall, in Roxh. Flor. Ind. 2. p. 54. 

 Ipomoea sphaeroccphala, Don. Prodr. Flor. Nepal, p. 98. (non Roxb.) 



Habitat in montibus Napalia^, ubi primi.m detexit Dom. Edw. Gardner, posteaque ipse copiose legi. Etiam 

 mcoht regiones elevatiores, versus Gossain Than. Floret Junio— Octobre. 



Frutex magna, ramosa, late super arbuscula et frutices volubilis, omnibus partibus vestita pilis copiosis, mollibus, decumbentibus, 

 diutc ferrugmeis. Caulis teres longissimus, pennam scriptoriam crassus, rannqn. pauciores dense, pilosi. Folia alterna, patentia, sub- 

 distantiaoblongo-vel ovato-cordata, indivisa et integerrima, vald^ attenuata in acumen longum, gracile, lobis basis rotundatis, • nunc 

 m^quahbus, smu pU^s minus profundo, nunc levissimo, utrinque, proeprimis subtC^s mollissim^ pilosa, ibique sub-7-nervia, transversa 

 reticulato-venosa; membranacea 5-7-pollicaria ; novella sericeo-barbata. Petiolus teres, densfe pilosus, folio triple, brevior, apicc 

 unnque glandula mucosa, plana ovata. Stipul. null.. Flores magni, speciosi, atropurpurei, brL pediccllati, p'auci disposi n 

 /a.«c«/. axdlanbus, sohtarns, pdosis, involucratis, pedunculo comn^uni suffultis cylindrico, petioli dimidium vix att ngente. ^racte. 

 magn., fohace., lanceolate, acuminata, basi latiuscuia, subretusa subadnat., fer^ H-pollLes, interiores breviores Calvx bTcte^ 

 X^lTnZZ xTrrT r^' ' '^:^' ''^'^'' submembranacei. in.qualibus. Corolla campanulat 

 ^Zlt^f^ OvTlot T'' : P^^^"*^'^;^«b«' '^^- -t-datis. Stamina inclns. ; Jllamenta subulata, basi villosa 

 a«/Ae.«, lineares. Ovarium ovatum, W, disco angusto, flavido basi circumdatum. Stylus glaber, capillaris. Stigmata 2 globosa. 



in TslVatris. wT^^^^^^ "f '"* T \" "' '"" ""''''' '^ ^^' ""^- ^- ^'^'•^"- ^- I -ited that country 

 n 1820. and 1821 I found the plant in abundance on the hills surrounding the great valley. My people brou^^ht 2 

 hkewise specimens from stil more northern and elevated situations in the direction of Gossain Than It is a ve'y 



iSnt ::t l7:r'' ^^'"'""' --'' ^^-^ ''-''-' ''''-' -'' '- -- ^-^-^^^ - - — ^^^^^ - 



difftenl ^' ^^/'^7-/'/-^- Rof - -ith which Mr. Don has united it in his work, quoted above, it is in eveiy respect 

 trf:;; ZLr""." ^^ ^'^ "^^"' ^^^--^^ ^' ^^^^-^ '"'^'^^ ^- '^ ^ ^4, where both these pJInts Lve 



Plate XLIII. Fig. 1. 2. Flowers. 3. Corolla opened. 4. PistiUum. 5. Ovarium. 



