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CONVOLVULUS PURPUREUS (3.) VARIUS, 
STRIPED-FLOWERED BINDWEED. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MoNocyYNIA, 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cor. campanulata, plicata. Svigm.2. Cap/. 2-locularis: loculis 
difpermis. ce 2 ; 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
CONVOLVULUS purpureus; (volubilis) foliis cordatis in- 
divifis, fruétibus cernuis, pedicellis incraflatis, Wald, Sp. 
Pl. 1. p. 852. Bot. Mag. N*- 119 et 1005. 
(e.) varius; corollis albis ceruleofiriatis. 
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Puitip Mrixier remarked that there were three or four 
permanent varieties of this fpecies, which he had not found to 
change by cultivation. He enumerates one with white, another 
with red, and a third with pale blue flowers and white feeds. -_ 
The variety figured at No. 1005 of this work is ftill more re- 
markable than any of thefe, and has been publifhed by Jacquin 
in his Hortus Schoenbrunenfis, v. 3. pl. 261, as a diftin&® 
{fpecies, under the name of Ipomaa difcolor, WerINMANN, in 
his Phytanthozaiconographia, vol @. tab. 414 and 415, has 
figured four varieties, one of which has a confiderable re- 
femblance to our prefent plant, having blue and white flowers 
with five red bands; but the colours are not fo neatly defined, 
being rather in blotches than f{tripes. 
The Honourable Witt1tam Hersert communicated the 
fpecimen from which our drawing was taken, with a remark 
that he had raifed it from. feeds for five generations, without 
obferving any difpofition in it to change its characters. We 
have however feen fome flowers all white, and in a bed of them 
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