quite glabrous, mostly alternate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 
2—2 in. long, 1-1} in. wide, subacute or acute or acuminate, 
with cuneate or truncate. or sometimes cordate base, the 
margin subentire or faintly toothed ; petioles slender, }—3 in. 
long. Peduncles smooth, long, twining. Calyx superior, 
the tube obconic, smooth, {-} in. long, the limb 5-lobed, 
lobes triangular or lanceolate, usually acute, 1-3? in. long, 
4-} In. wide, usually glabrous, sometimes sparingly ciliate. 
Corolla campanulate, blue, 5-partite to the base; lobes 
3-13 in. long, triangular or oblanceolate, acute and often 
finely mucronulate ; limb 14-2 in. across. Filaments 
glabrous, spreading, each with an ovate ciliate appendage 
at the base on the outer side; anthers oblong, glabrous, 
their dehiscence introrse. Stigma 3-lobed. Capsule trun- 
cate or subconic, 3-valved, 4—} in. long. 
Currivation.—Though the individual flowers are striking, 
C. convolvulacea cannot be reckoned a showy plant; the 
Kew plant had indeed only one flower open at one time. 
It does not, however, compare unfavourably with the other 
species that have been in cultivation, most of which, 
as stated by Dr. Lindley, are plants with dull-coloured 
flowers recalling those of an A/ropa, with the habit of a 
miniature Canarina. From its behaviour Mr. Leichtlin is 
inclined to think that the present species may be a biennial. 
It has been grown at Kew as a pot-plant, in a cold frame.— 
D. PRaIn. 
Fig. 1, a flower from which the corolla and part of the calyx have been 
removed ; 2 and 3, stainens with appendage :—all enlarged. 
