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 Falkia repens. Creeping Falkia. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. (Hexandria Willd.) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. l-phyllus. Cor. l-petala. Styli 2. Sent. 4. Lin. 

 Suppl. p. 31. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Falkia repens. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 317. Willd. Sp. 



PL 2. p. 249. Thunb. Diss. nov. gen. 1. p. 17. Lin. 



Suppl. p. 211. Persoon Sj/n. I. p. 287. Bot. Repos. 

 Convolvulus Falckia ; foliis cordatis excisis, caule sarmen- 



toso. Thunb. Prodr. 3b. Convolvulus Falkia Jacquini, 



est longe alia planta. 



Descr. Root creeping-, perennial. Leaves in bundles, on 

 long filiform petioles, fleshy, cordate, quite entire ; lower pe- 

 tioles in particular very long. Peduncles erect, growing from 

 between the leaves, rather longer than the petioles. Calyx 

 tubular, five-angled, with a five-cleft margin, persistent. Co- 

 rolla bell-shaped, margin five-Iobed: lobes revolute, emargi- 

 nate. Stamens generally five, rarely six, inserted into the 

 receptacle. Germens according to Brown four, pubescent, 

 connected by pairs at the base through the medium of the 

 styles. Styles two, divaricate : Stigmas globular. 



This plant in habit and corolla is exactly a Convolvulus 

 but differs in the fruit. It belongs however to the natural 

 order of convolvulacea, of which Mr. Brown has made a 

 second section, having two or four unilocular ovaria instead of 

 a single one, in his Prodromus of the plants of New Holland, 

 an inestimable work, the continuation of which is so ardently 

 wished for by all botanists. This section contains Dichondra 

 J* Porster, distinguished from Falkia especially by having 

 l ^o, two-seeded ovaria. 



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