Tab. 5720. 

 PHAEBITIS Nil; var. limbata. 

 White-edged Pharbitis. 



Nat. Ord. Convolvulace^.— Pentandbia Mokogysja. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla campanulata v. infundibuliformi- 

 campanulata. Stamina inclusa. Ovarium 3- rarius 4-loculare ; stylus fih- 

 tbrniis, inclusus, stiginate capitellato 2-lobo ; ovula in locuhs 2.— Herbs 

 volubiles, caule elongato. Folia integra v. lobata. 



Phaebitis Nil; caule retrorsim piloso, foliis cordatis 3-lobis lobo inter- 

 medio basi dilatato, petiolis longiusculis, pedunculw 2-3-nons petiolo 

 brevioribus longioribusve, sepalis elongato-subulato-lanceolatis erectis 

 dein lente recurvis longe acuminatis, corolla ampla. Choisy m "< 

 Prodr. v. 9. p. 343. 



Var. limbata ; corolla violacea, albo-marglnata. 



Phaebitis albo-marginata. Lin dl. in Journ. Hort. Soc.v. 5. p. 33. Hen- 

 frey in Card. Mag. Bot. v. 2. p. 217, cum ic. ; Flore des Sevres, t. 

 608; Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, t. 97. 



The most beautiful plant here figured was raised from 

 seeds collected in North Australia, and sent by Dr. Mueller 

 to Kew, where it flowered in a stove in May of the presen 

 year. Pharbitis Nil itself is an extremely common tropica 

 weed, so widely distributed, that it is difficult now to say oi 

 what country it is a native. The variety alMmbata was 

 originally imported from Java by Messrs. Ro lisson, oi loot- 

 ing, and is probably not uncommon in the East Indian 

 Islands; it was considered a good species by Lindley, but 

 more correctly referred by Henfrey to P. M, from which it 

 differs only in the colour of the flowers. So many Malayan 

 island plants, and especially annuals, are also North Austra- 

 lian, that its appearance in the latter country is not extra- 



T lS. A slender, twining annual. Stems hispid with 

 retrorse hairs. Leaves on rather slender hairy petioles, two 

 inches and a half to four inches long, cordate three-lobed, 

 the lobes broad, the middle one broadest and acuminate. 

 Peduncles variable in length, one- to three-flowered, hispid. 



JTJLT 1st, 1868. 



