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Stem somewhat shrubby, twining, round, hispid, each hair 
springing from a reddish-brown papilla.  Petioles round, 
hairy, about the length of the leaflets, terminating in a 5- 
fingered, peltate leaf: Leaflets of unequal size, broadly lan- 
ceolate, entire, tapering at the base and ending in a rather 
long, narrow, obtuse acumen, hairy on both sides, but not so 
profusely as on the other parts of the plant. Peduncles axil- 
lary, round, papillose, hispid, many-flowered, once or twice 
dichotomous with a solitary, long, pedicellate flower in the 
fork: bracteas 2, at each division. Pedicels thickened up- 
wards, compressed, somewhat ancipitate near the calyx. 
Calyx ovate, 5-parted, the three outer divisions ovate, con- 
cave, tapering to a sharp point, very hairy, enclosing the 
other two, which are smooth, white, and membranous. 
Corolla bell-shaped, a little longer than the calyx; limb 
plaited, white. Stamens 5; filaments about half the length 
of the corolla; anthers sagittate, after bursting twisted. 
Pistil: Germen surrounded at the base by a glandular cup. 
Style filiform; Stigma 2-lobed; Capsule 4-valved, 4-celled ; 
cells 1-seeded; seeds convex, triangular. 
This plant is of rare occurrence in the neighbourhood of 
Negapatam, being found occasionally growing in dry and 
sandy soil, where it twines upon the hedges and bushes, and 
produces flower and fruit during the greater part of the cool 
season. In its earlier stage, each peduncle seems to bear 
but one flower, and has two bracteas about the middle of its 
length; but from the axils of these bracteas, a branch after- 
wards springs, which goes through the s same "ATUS pro- 
ducing new branches and new inflorescence. How often 
this may be repeated, I am halle 4 to say; ; but I have 
specimens now lying before me, which exhibit three succes- 
sive instances of this increase. 
[ Were it not that the Conv. pentaphyllus of Linn. and Jacq. 
lc. Pl. Rar. is an American species, I should have been 
inclined to consider, as Dr. Wight was disposed to do, our. 
present plant as identical with it, so closely are they allied. - 
as it may, we are certain that it is the same with 
Roxburgh's C. hirsutus, (not of Bieberstein;) and the C. 
